Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India
Take-up of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India decreases with basis risk between insurance payouts and income fluctuations, increases with household wealth, and decreases with binding credit constraints. These results are consistent with the predicti...
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Format: | Journal Article |
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World Bank
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4491 |