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Can insurance payouts prevent a poverty trap? : evidence from randomized experiments in Northern Kenya

Noritomo, Yuma; Takahashi, Kazushi - 2019

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The Impacts of Microcredit on Informal Risk Sharing : Experimental Evidence from China

Cai, Shu - 2021

This study examines the impacts of a large-scale government-led microcredit program on informal risk sharing among poor households in rural China based on a randomized controlled trial. The results show that financial inclusion, on average, reduced households’ borrowing from informal financial...

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Anreizkompatibilität von Entschädigungssystemen für Kosten und Verluste aus Tierseuchenausbrüchen in der Europäischen Union

Hirsch, Bernhard; Nell, Martin - 2007

. -- Tierseuchen ; Risikomanagement ; Externalitäten ; moralisches Risiko … systems in the European Union however provide adverse incentives and result in inefficient livestock production structures and … insufficient loss prevention activities of livestock holders. Guidelines are provided for the institutional arrangement and the …

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Dynamic effects of drought on U.S. crop and livestock sectors

Leister, Amanda M.; Paarlberg, Philip Lynn; Lee, John G. - In: Journal of agricultural and applied economics : JAEE 47 (2015) 2, pp. 261-284

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Can insurance payouts prevent a poverty trap? : evidence from randomised experiments in Northern Kenya

Noritomo, Yuma; Takahashi, Kazushi - In: The journal of development studies 56 (2020) 11, pp. 2079-2096

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Insurance Take-Up in Rural China : Learning from Hypothetical Experience

Cai, Jing - 2012

This paper uses a novel experimental design to test for the role of experience and information in insurance take-up in rural China, where weather insurance was a new and highly subsidized product. We randomly select a group of poor households to play insurance games and find that it improves the...

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Market Timing, Farmer Expectations, and Liquidity Constraints

Albuquerque, Rui A.; Araujo, Bruno; Brandao-Marques, Luis; … - 2021

This paper uses data on farmers' price expectations from a survey of randomly sampled smallholder farmers in Mozambique …

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The Impact of Insurance Provision on Households’ Production and Financial Decisions

Cai, Jing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Taking advantage of a natural experiment and a rich household-level panel dataset, this paper tests the impact of an agricultural insurance program on household level production, borrowing, and saving. The empirical strategy includes both difference-in-difference and triple difference...

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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Cole, Shawn; Gine, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy; Topalova, Petia - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 104-35

randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and nonprice factors in the adoption of an innovative … rainfall insurance product. Demand is significantly price sensitive, but widespread take-up would not be achieved even if the …

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Do Hypothetical Experiences Affect Real Financial Decisions? Evidence from Insurance Take-up

Cai, Jing; Song, Changcheng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper uses a novel experimental design to study the effect of hypothetical personal experience on the adoption of a new insurance product in rural China. Specifically, we conduct a set of insurance games with a random subset of farmers. Our findings show that playing insurance games...

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