Insurance and Rural Welfare: What Can Panel Data Tell Us?

Assessing the scope for insurance in rural communities usually requires a structural model of household behaviour under risk. One of the few empirical applications of such models is the study by Rosenzweig and Wolpin (1993) who conclude that Indian farmers in the ICRISAT villages would not benefit f...

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Auteurs principaux: Elbers, C, Gunning, J, Pan, L
Format: Working paper
Langue:English
Publié: CSAE (University of Oxford) 2007