This paper provides novel evidence on how risk exposure shapes the demand for index-based weather insurance. The focus … is on Mongolia, where index insurance is offered as a commercially marketed product to pastoralists threatened by extreme … spanning a period of five years, this paper shows that the demand for index insurance increases in areas exposed to adverse …

insurance scheme. Using the fifth wave of the Ghanaian Living Standard Household Survey, we investigate the extent to which the … exogenous implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme affects the probability of making or receiving informal …. We conclude that the provision of formal health insurance can reduce covariate risk in weak transfer networks and support …