Rating Crop Insurance Policies with Efficient Nonparametric Estimators That Admit Mixed Data Types

The identification of improved methods for characterizing crop yield densities has experienced a recent surge in activity due in part to the central role played by crop insurance in the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (estimates of yield densities are required for the determination of insur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jeffrey S. Racine, Alan P. Ker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2006-04-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10146