Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenoussources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. We find demand is signif...
Main Authors: | Cole, Shawn, Gine, Xavier, Tobacman, Jeremy, Topalova, Petia, Townsend, Robert, Vickery, James |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73597 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102 |
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