Risk-Sharing Networks and Insurance Against Illness.

Most risk-sharing tests on developing country data are conducted at the level of the village; generally, the full risk-sharing hypothesis is rejected. This paper uses detailed data on all insurance networks within a village in Tanzania; networks are not clustered but largely overlapping. We test whe...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Weerdt, J, Dercon, S
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: 2006