-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

-free physical capital and risky human capital. Households have access to a complete set of credit and insurance contracts, but their … households less than half of human capital risk is insured and the welfare losses due to the lack of insurance range from 3 … parameters have non-negligible effects on equilibrium insurance and welfare, but the result that young households are severely …

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 …

insurance across individuals and across the lifecycle. We embed these alternative roles in a lifecycle model, allowing us to …-individual redistribution and between- and within-individual insurance. These components are distinguished from perspective of the start of … credit (WFTC) reform of 1999 and the universal credit (UC) reform that began in 2013. Our main conclusions are that insurance …