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We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of insurance for sows. Our study sheds light on two important questions about microinsurance. First, how does access to formal insurance affect farmers' production decisions? Second,...
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The investment decisions of small‐scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana...
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In discussing the paradoxical violation of expected utility theory that now bears his name, Maurice Allais noted that … insurance relative to the predictions of expected utility theory because as conventionally constructed, insurance offers an …
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impact of insurance on cotton, but, consistent with microeconomic theory, we find significant spillover impacts on investment …
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The federal government has developed a large number of programs to insure various "specialty crops" over the last two decades; a given program is peculiar to a particular county and crop. This development has been particularly notable in California, because of its size and the diversity of crops...
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This paper develops a framework for estimating preferences in two-sided matching markets with non-transferable utility … with many-to-one matching. These methods allow me to investigate two issues concerning the centralized market for medical … increasing the number of residents training in rural areas while accounting for general equilibrium effects from the matching …
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This paper studies the determinants of mismatch in educational attainment. Mismatch arises when high ability individuals do not obtain a college degree and/or low ability individuals do. Using data from the NLSY97 survey, the paper estimates a structural model of education choice that matches...
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and reduces matching efficiency: average unemployment duration rises by 13% for the most productive workers after …
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Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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-stakes setting. The estimates reject extant models of giving, but are consistent with the new theory …
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