Barriers to household risk management /

Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources 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. Demand is significantly pr...

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Other Authors: Townsend, Robert M., Cole, Shawn, Tobacman, Jeremy, Gine, Xavier, Vickery, James Ian, Topalova, Petia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : International Monetary Fund, 2012
Series:IMF working paper (Online) ; WP/12/195.
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