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Saving for a (not so) Rainy Day: A Randomized Evaluation of Savings Groups in Mali

Karlan, Dean; Beaman, Lori; Thuysbaert, Bram - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

High transaction and contracting costs are often thought to create credit and savings market failures in developing … improved "technology" for managing informal, collaborative village-based savings groups. Such groups allow, in theory, for more … efficient and lower- cost loans and informal savings, and in practice have been scaled up by international non …

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Consumption insurance with heterogeneous preferences. Can sharecropping help complete markets ?

Dubois, P. - Département d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales, … - 2001

This paper presents the first evidence linking directly household consumption profiles to the widely studied institution of sharecropping in developing countries. On the one hand, the theoretical rationale for sharecropping often calls for its risk sharing properties. On the other hand empirical...

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What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment

Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Karlan, Dean; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2009

Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...

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Vulnerability of Household Consumption to Village-level Aggregate Shocks in a Developing Country

Kurosaki, Takashi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2011

Village-level aggregate shocks such as droughts and floods cannot be perfectly insured by risk sharing within a village. Then, what type of households are more vulnerable in terms of a decline in consumption when a village is hit by such natural disasters? This question is investigated in this...

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Natural Disasters, Relief Aid, and Household Vulnerability in Pakistan: Evidence from a Pilot Survey in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Kurosaki, Takashi; Khan, Humayun; Shah, Mir Kalan; … - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2011

Based on a pilot survey, we analyze the damages caused by floods in Pakistan, 2010, the istribution of aid, and the extent of recovery at he household level. With regard to the nature of damages, we show that flood damages had both between-village and within-village variation, and damages to...

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Household-level Recovery after Floods in a Developing Country: Further Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Kurosaki, Takashi; Khan, Humayun; Shah, Mir Kalan; … - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2012

Based on a second survey of villages and households one year after a pilot survey, we analyze the household-level recovery process from damage due to floods in Pakistan in 2010. With regard to initial recovery from flood damage, we find that households who had initially fewer assets and were hit...

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Household-level Recovery after Floods in a Developing Country: Evidence from Pakistan

Kurosaki, Takashi - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2012

Based on a panel survey conducted in rural Pakistan, this paper analyzes the extent to which households recovered from damage due to floods that hit the country in 2010. With regard to initial recovery, households who had initially fewer assets and were hit by greater flood damage had more...

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Vulnerability of Household Consumption to Floods and Droughts in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan

Kurosaki, Takashi - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2013

Aggregate shocks such as droughts and floods cannot be perfectly insured by risk sharing within a village. Given this inability, what type of households are more vulnerable in terms of a decline in consumption when a village is hit by such shocks and what kind of microeconomic mechanism...

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Household Coping in War- and Peacetime : Cattle Sales in Rwanda, 1991-2001

Verpoorten, Marijke - 2008

The economic literature has given due attention to household coping strategies in peacetime. In contrast, little is known about such strategies in wartime. This paper studies the use of cattle as a buffer stock by Rwandan households during 1991-2001, a period characterized by civil war and...

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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...

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