Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured
Farmers face enormous production risks due to unpredictable rainfall, yet most do not have any formal insurance. One explanation for this is the existence of informal […]
- Start Date: October 2012
- End Date: 2015/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Yale University
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Abstract: Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India […]
- Date of Publication: 2012/04/11
- Author(s): Shawn Allen Cole; Xavier Gine; Jeremy Tobacman; Petia B. Topalova; Robert M. Townsend; James I. Vickery
- Type of Document: Research Report
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
BASIS Brief 2012-05: Insuring Health and Wealth? An Evaluation of Health Insurance in Cambodia
Highlights the methodology and impact of BASIS CRSP research.
- Date of Publication: March 2012
- Author(s): David I. Levine; Rachel Polimeni
- Type of Document: Research Brief
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Mango Farm Survey in East Java and West Java
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: February 2012
- Author(s): Sara R. Qanti; Thomas Reardon
- Type of Document: Research Report
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Insurance Against Correlated Agricultural Shocks: A Numerical Solution to the Farmer’s Problem
Not Available
- Date of Publication: 2012
- Author(s): Anita Mukherjee
- Type of Document: Research Report
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
BASIS Breif 2012-01: Asset Accumulation in Bangladesh: Trapped by Poverty and Gender
Highlights the methodology and impact of BASIS CRSP research.
- Date of Publication: January 2012
- Author(s): Agnes R. Quisumbing
- Type of Document: Research Brief
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
BASIS Brief 2011-03: Insuring Health: Adverse Selection and Micro-health Insurance in Cambodia
Highlights the methodology and impact of BASIS CRSP research.
- Date of Publication: December 2011
- Author(s): David I. Levine; Rachel Polimeni
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Health and Nutrition, Policy
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Weather Insured Savings Accounts
Abstract: This paper uses a laboratory experiment in Gujarat, India to assess consumers’ relative valuations of savings versus insurance when planning for risky rainfall in an […]
- Date of Publication: 9/21/2011
- Author(s): Daniel Stein; Jeremy Tobacman
- Type of Document: Research Report
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
What Is Rainfall Index Insurance Worth? A Comparison of Valuation Techniques
Abstract: Rainfall index insurance is a theoretically attractive nancial product that has achieved only limited adoption. This paper seeks to understand the structure of demand for […]
- Date of Publication: 9/7/2011
- Author(s): Shawn Cole; Daniel Stein; Jeremy Tobacman
- Type of Document: Research Report
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
Do Shocks Affect Men’s and Women’s Assets Differently? A Review of Literature and New Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda
IFPRI Discussion Paper No. 01113
- Date of Publication: August 2011
- Author(s): Agnes R. Quisumbing; Neha Kumar; Julia A. Behrman
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Publication
