Barriers to Household Risk Management : Evidence from India /

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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Autor principal: Townsend, Robert
Otros Autores: Cole, Shawn, Gine, Xavier, Tobacman, Jeremy
Formato: Revista
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Colección:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/195
Acceso en línea:Full text available on IMF