Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance …. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of …

Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance …. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of …

Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were offered, at the prevailing market price, a rainfall index insurance …. We argue that rainfall index insurance can complement informal risk-sharing networks by mitigating problems of …

among self-employed in the rural areas, while at the same time it supported an inter-state migration trend from rural areas … inducing geographic-sectoral migration. …

remittances are jointly determined, we exploit rainfall shocks as instrumental variables for income changes. In households with …

household-level idiosyncratic shocks. Importantly, we find that the availability of mobile money increased migration out of …

. Our first finding is that residents share a common view on the reasons of migration, namely that it has been triggered by … the large pay levels that exists between the level of local and the Western European labor markets and that migration … the performance of the local economy. We conclude that a reinterpretation of migration is required in order to capture the …