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Gunning, Jan Willem - In: Revue d’économie du développement 21 (2013) 2, pp. 37-54

In many developing economies, notably in Africa, both governments and private agents live in a high risk environment but have only poor risk coping mechanisms at their disposal. Nevertheless development is typically analyzed as if it occurs in a world without risk. This may be because the effect...

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Risque, chocs et développement

Gunning, Jan Willem - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 21 (2013) 2/3, pp. 37-54

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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. …

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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - 2007

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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behavior under risk. One of the few empirical … would not benefit from the introduction of formal weather insurance. In this paper we investigate how models such as theirs … conclusion that insurance would not be welfare improving. …

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Insurance and Rural Welfare: What can Panel Data tell us?

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Pan, Lei - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

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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 …

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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 …

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Risk sharing in labour markets

Bigsten, Arne; Collier, Paul; Dercon, Stefan; … - 2003 - Rev.

insurance to employers: when firms are hit by temporary shocks the effect on profits is cushioned by risk sharing with workers …

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Insurance and solidarity : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cambodia

Lenel, Friederike; Steiner, Susan - 2017

This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We … show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a … endowment. It is varied whether they can purchase an insurance before the loss is determined. The other half of the subjects can …

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