Welfare impacts of Index Insurance in the presence of a poverty trap

This paper evaluates the welfare impacts of an index-based livestock insurance designed to compensate for satellite-based predicted livestock mortality in northern Kenya, where previous work has established the presence of poverty traps. We simulate household wealth dynamics based on rich panel and...

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Autores principales: Chantarat, S., Mude, Andrew G., Barrett, Christopher B., Turvey, C.G.
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80426

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