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Insurance and rural welfare : what can panel data tell us?
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Lei Pan - 2006 - Rev.
Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350366
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Sharing Risk to Avoid Tragedy : Informal Insurance and Irrigation in Village Economies
Mazur, Karol - 2020
informal insurance and irrigation provision. Firstly, I demonstrate theoretically that if access to the benefits of such public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850275
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866354
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866724
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030472
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Perceptions of farm size heterogeneity and demand for group index insurance
Vasilaky, Kathryn N.; Martínez Sáenz, Sofía; … - In: Games 11 (2020) 1/15, pp. 1-21
Weather insurance is a financial instrument proposed to increase coverage of unprotected weather shocks in developing … insurance, raising the question as to what impacts farmer demand for group insurance choices. We test if farmers prefer to … purchase real-world insurance products as groups, and if groups of more similar individuals are more likely to demand group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431819
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020 - Current version: August 22, 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433427
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Migration and Informal Insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014094175
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Insurance and Rural Welfare
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - 2007
Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under … Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we … that this can affect the conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014053122
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Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty
Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - 2009
Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217706