Heterogeneity and risk sharing in village economies

We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households' risk preferences. Specifically, we measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model, which we then test allowing for this heterogeneity. There is subst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chiappori, Pierre-Andre, Samphantharak, Krislert, Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam, Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: The Econometric Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96171
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1528-8102