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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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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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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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Consumption insurance and education : a puzzle?
Campanale, Claudio - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298629
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Life-cycle wealth accumulation and consumption insurance
Campanale, Claudio; Sartarelli, Marcello - In: Journal of macroeconomics 79 (2024), pp. 1-14
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Determinants of personal risk financing strategies
Brokešová, Zuzana; Ondruška, Tomáš; Pastoráková, … - In: Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú … 71 (2023) 10, pp. 579-595
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The determinants of microinsurance demand
Eling, Martin; Pradhan, Shailee; Schmit, Joan Therese - 2013
influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410033
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Regional migration, insurance and economic shocks : evidence from Nicaraguax
Millán, Teresa Molina - 2015
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the … rainfall shocks in rural Nicaragua, I find that migrants aged 15-21 years provide unilateral insurance to their origin … household. Distinguishing by destination and economic activity I show that the level of insurance increases when migrants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387156