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Do the Poor Benefit Less from Informal Risk-Sharing? Risk Externalities and Moral Hazard in Decentralized Insurance Arrangements

Delpierre, Matthieu - 2015

Empirical evidence on developing countries highlights that poor farm-households are less keen to adopt high risk/high return technologies than rich households. Yet, they tend to be more vulnerable to income shocks than the rich. This paper develops a model of informal risk-sharing with...

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A feminization of vulnerability? : female headship, poverty, and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam

Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 71 (2015), pp. 36-53

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What about the women? : female headship, poverty and vulnerability in Thailand and Vietnam

Klasen, Stephan; Lechtenfeld, Tobias; Povel, Felix - 2011

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

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