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STOCHASTIC WEALTH DYNAMICS AND RISK MANAGEMENT AMONG A POOR POPULATION
Lybbert, Travis J.; Barrett, Christopher B.; Desta, Solomon - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and … - 2002
pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320758
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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment
Galarza, Francisco B.; Carter, Michael R. - 2010
This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people's vulnerability to large scalecovariate shocks, and can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446167
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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment
Galarza, Francisco B.; Carter, Michael R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru to examine the relationship amongst risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people's vulnerability to large scale covariate shocks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020273
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Informal Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia
Santos, Paulo; Barrett, Christopher B. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2006
(Portugal), and the Graduate School of Cornell University. Thanks are due to ILRI - Ethiopia for their hospitality and support … southern Ethiopia". We thank Michael Carter, Stefan Dercon, Andrew Foster, Vivian Hoffman, Dhushyanth Raju, Steve Younger and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005060527
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Risk, Credit, and Insurance in Peru: Field Experimental Evidence
Galarza, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru to examine the relationship amongst risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people's vulnerability to large scale covariate shocks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531701
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Experimentos de campo en economía: preferencias en relación al riesgo y demanda por contratos intertemporales en el Perú
Galarza, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article looks at the determinants of the choice of productive projects involving intertemporal contracts in rural Peru. In a setting where the formal education is limited, the successful launching of new financial instruments may be affected by the lack of proper understanding of their main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924828
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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment
Galarza, Francisco; Carter, Michael - Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del … - 2011
"This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru to examine the relationship amongst risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people's vulnerability to large scale covariate shocks, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156852
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Risk, Growth and Social networks
Santos, Paulo - 2007
the formation of credit networks. It uses original data, collected in Southern Ethiopia, an environment where nonlinear … data from southern Ethiopia it is shown that this method yieldsestimates of the structure of social relations that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466256
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Income shocks and poverty traps: Asset smoothing in rural Ethiopia
Scott, Douglas - 2019
Evidence is found of two distinct patterns of response to the onset of the recent drought in rural Ethiopia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145142
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The impact of changing rainfall variability on resource-dependent wealth dynamics
Barrett, Christopher B.; Santos, Paulo - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 105 (2014), pp. 48-54
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493288