Informal Risk Sharing and Index Insurance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Annan ◽  
Bikramaditya Datta
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Index Insurance ◽  
Informal Risk Sharing

Dynamics of informal risk sharing in collective index insurance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando P. Santos ◽  
Jorge M. Pacheco ◽  
Francisco C. Santos ◽  
Simon A. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Index Insurance ◽  
Informal Risk Sharing

Informal Risk Sharing, Index Insurance, and Risk Taking in Developing Countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak ◽  
Mark R Rosenzweig
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Index Insurance ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Agricultural Laborers ◽  
Informal Risk Sharing

Preliminary findings are presented from a research project which examined the interactions between informal risk sharing, index insurance and risk-taking. Rainfall insurance contracts were randomly offered to cultivating and landless households in a set of Indian villages where preexisting census data on caste networks allowed the characterization of the nature and extent of informal risk sharing. We study how informal risk sharing mediates the demand for index insurance, whether index insurance or informal indemnification allows farmers to invest in risky technologies, and the general equilibrium effects of offering insurance contracts to cultivators and agricultural laborers.

Does Index Insurance Crowd In or Crowd Out Informal Risk Sharing? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

2018 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 672-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazushi Takahashi ◽  
Christopher B. Barrett ◽  
Munenobu Ikegami
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Index Insurance ◽  
Rural Ethiopia ◽  
Crowd Out ◽  
Informal Risk Sharing

scholarly journals Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Attila Ambrus ◽  
Arun Chandrasekhar ◽  
Matt Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Informal Risk Sharing
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