Risk sharing and public transfers

We use public transfers in the form of food aid to test for the presence of risk sharing arrangements at the village level in rural Ethiopia. We reject perfect risk-sharing, but find evidence of partial risk-sharing via transfers. There is also evidence consistent with crowding out of informal insurance linked to food aid programmes. – risk ; public transfers ; informal insurance

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Year of publication:	2002
Authors:	Dercon, Stefan ; Krishnan, Pramila
Publisher:	Helsinki : The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Subject:	Öffentlicher Transfer \| Nahrungsmittelhilfe \| Risiko \| Ländlicher Raum \| Äthiopien

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Series:	WIDER Discussion Paper ; 2002/85
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
ISBN:	9291902950
Other identifiers:	355587610 [GVK] hdl:10419/52858 [Handle]
Classification:	E20 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment. General ; I38 - Government Policy; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs ; O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Source:	EconStor

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