Search Results - "idiosyncratic"

Consumption smoothing and vulnerability in the Zone Lacustre, Mali by Harrower, Sarah, Hoddinott, John F.

“…This paper explores risk sharing in the Zone Lacustre, Mali, as viewed through the lens of consumption smoothing. We find that idiosyncratic shocks appear to have little impact on consumption, and that households respond to these shocks in a variety of ways. …”
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Do shocks affect men's and women's assets differently? Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda by Quisumbing, Agnes R., Kumar, Neha, Behrman, Julia A.

“…Across countries, covariate and idiosyncratic shocks have different effects on men's, women's and jointly owned assets. …”
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Investigating economywide and household-level impacts of sector-specific shocks in a poor country: The case of avian flu in Ethiopia by Ayele, Gezahegn, Birol, Ekin, Diao, Xinshen, Asare-Marfo, Dorene, Roy, Devesh, Thomas, Marcelle

“…Because 1) the prevalent traditional poultry sector is weakly linked to other sectors, 2) livelihoods of the poultry-producing households are diversified, and 3) shocks are idiosyncratic in nature, the study finds that the impacts of an avian flu outbreak are likely to be small and limited to producers who keep larger flocks. …”
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Basis risk, social comparison, perceptions of fairness, and demand for insurance: A field experiment in Ethiopia by Kramer, Berber, Porter, Maria, Wassie, Solomon B.

“…Although recent innovations in remote sensing enable the provision of more complete insurance including coverage for idiosyncratic risks, such insurance introduces differences in payouts within social networks, which might be considered unfair, introduce jealousy, and depress insurance demand. …”
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Implications of food trade policy for domestic and international food price volatility by Martin, Will, Mamun, Abdullah, Minot, Nicholas

“…The findings suggest that systematic, short-run protection changes designed to insulate against changes in world prices reduce shocks to domestic prices but exacerbate world price volatility. However, idiosyncratic, national shocks to protection rates—such as those due to national weather shocks—increase domestic price volatility relative to the amplified volatility of world prices. …”
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Index insurance quality and basis risk: Evidence from northern Kenya by Jensen, Nathaniel D., Barrett, Christopher B., Mude, Andrew G.

“…The benefits of reduced covariate risk exposure are relatively small, however, due to high exposure to seemingly mostly random idiosyncratic risk, even in this population often thought to suffer largely from covariate shocks. …”
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Determinants of adoption of dairy cattle technology in the Kenyan highlands: a spatial and dynamic approach by Baltenweck, Isabelle, Staal, Steven J.

“…Time is expected to play a key role in adoption and two time dimensions are introduced: an idiosyncratic time describing the conditions faced by the household at the beginning of the spell and historical time accounting for the changes in the external conditions. …”
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Food trade policy and food price volatility by Martin, Will, Mamun, Abdullah, Minot, Nicholas

“…The results suggest that systematic short-run price insulation reduces shocks to domestic prices but sharply increases world price volatility and the costs of trade distortions. However, idiosyncratic domestic price shocks resulting from inefficient policy instruments such as quantitative restrictions increase domestic price volatility relative to the magnified volatility of world prices—frequently outweighing the stabilizing impacts of price insulation. …”
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Explaining index based livestock insurance to pastoralists by McPeak, J.G., Chantarat, S., Mude, Andrew G.

“…We built in the game both covariate and idiosyncratic shocks, and use a subsistence constraint to generate bifurcating asset dynamics, observed empirically in the targeted communities. …”
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Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution by Garnier, E., Stahl, U., Laporte, Marie-Angélique, Kattge, J., Mougenot, I., Kuhn, I., Laporte, B., Amiaud, B., Ahrestani, F.S., Bonisch, G., Bunker, D.E., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Díaz, S., Enquist, B.J., Gachet, S., Jaureguiberry, P., Kleyer, M., Lavorel, S., Maicher, L., Pérez Harguindeguy, N., Poorter, H., Schildhauer, M., Shipley, B., Violle, C., Weiher, E., Wirth, C., Wright, I.J., Klotz, S.

“…Ecological research produces a tremendous amount of data, but the diversity in scales and topics covered and the ways in which studies are carried out result in large numbers of small, idiosyncratic data sets using heterogeneous terminologies. …”
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Adoption of grade cattle technology in Kenya: A combined farm-level and spatial approach. by Baltenweck, Isabelle

“…Time is expected to play a key role in adoption and two time dimensions are introduced: an idiosyncratic time describing the conditions faced by the household at the beginning of the spell and historical time accounting for the changes in the external conditions. …”
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Scrutinizing the status quo: Rural transformation and land tenure security in Nigeria by Ghebru, Hosaena, Girmachew, Fikirte

“…The determinants of perceive tenure insecurity are assessed across two indicators: private (idiosyncratic) tenure risk and collective (covariate) tenure security risk. …”
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Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty: a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, and Russia by Skoufias, Emmanuel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…All the case studies show that food consumption is better insured than nonfood consumption from idiosyncratic shocks. Adjustments in nonfood consumption appear to act as a mechanism for partially insuring ex-post the consumption of food from the effects of income changes. …”
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Consumption insurance and vulnerability to poverty: a synthesis of the evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mali, Mexico, and Russia by Skoufias, Emmanuel, Quisumbing, Agnes R.

“…All the case studies show that food consumption is better insured than nonfood consumption from idiosyncratic shocks. Adjustments in nonfood consumption appear to act as a mechanism for partially insuring ex-post the consumption of food from the effects of income changes. …”
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A scoping review of market links between value chain actors and small-scale producers in developing regions by Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda Lenis Onipede, Wineman, A., Young, S., Tambo, J., Vargas, C., Reardon, Thomas, Adjognon, G.S., Porciello, J., Gathoni, N., Bizikova, L., Galiè, Alessandra, Celestin, A.

“…Small and medium enterprises, not just large enterprises, address idiosyncratic market failures and asset shortfalls of small-scale producers by providing them, through informal arrangements, with complementary services such as input provision, credit, information and logistics. …”
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Profiling women’s reality of risk and vulnerabilities in the Nigerian cassava agri-food system by Adeyemo, Temitayo A., Nwanze-Olaosebikan, Olamide, Omitoyin, Siyanbola A.

“…Key results: Women in the cassava agri-food system mainly faced covariate risks of herdsmen conflict (35%), climate shock (22%), and fluctuating market prices (16.7%), among others. Idiosyncratic shocks mainly express as death of spouse and treatment of sick family members. …”
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Promising indicators for effectively targeting the poor in Myanmar by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity

“…The government allocated only 0.8 percent of its expenditure to social protection constraining its ability to expand to vulnerable groups leaving households to rely on informal forms of safety nets against idiosyncratic and covariate shocks, and life-course contingencies (Niño-Zarazúa & Tarp 2021). …”
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Farm households' preference for cash-based compensation versus livelihood-enhancing programs: A choice experiment to inform avian flu compensation policy in Nigeria by Oparinde, Adewale, Birol, Ekin

“…These findings are expected to inform the design of efficient, effective, equitable, and targeted compensation policies, which could not only reduce the livestock disease risk but also improve the resilience of poor farm households' livelihoods against future poultry-related or other idiosyncratic shocks.…”
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Comparative phylogeography in rainforest trees from Lower Guinea, Africa by Heuertz, M., Duminil, J., Dauby, G., Savolainen, V., Hardy, Olivier J.

“…Coalescent simulations indicated that, given the power of the data, this result probably reflects idiosyncratic histories of the taxa, or a weak common differentiation pattern (possibly with population substructure) undetectable across taxa in dataset 1. …”
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Using weather index insurance to improve drought response for famine prevention by Chantarat, S., Barrett, Christopher B., Mude, Andrew G., Turvey, C.G.

“…While informal social insurance arrangements and flexible credit contracts often provide the poor with significant insurance against household-specific, idiosyncratic risk, when entire communities or social networks confront the same biophysical shock, their capacity to buffer members' welfare may be insufficient to prevent severe and widespread human suffering. …”
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