This paper discusses the effects of death and illness on household income and non-health consumption for all and different subsamples of households in Ethiopia. With a few exceptions, the results suggest that the insurance mechanism in the country does not fully insure household income and...

This paper examines the impact of idiosyncratic income shocks on household consumption, educational expenditure and fertility in Indonesia, and assesses whether the investment in human capital of children and fertility are used to smooth household consumption. Using six different kinds of...