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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or … leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083318
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012
conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or … leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908078
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - 2012
profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants … strong, and insurance leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture …. The salient constraint to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610695
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - Economics Department, Yale University - 2012
conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or … leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010838898
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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean; Udry, Christopher; Osei, Robert Darko; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in which farmers were randomly assigned to receive cash grants, grants of or … leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The binding constraint … to farmer investment is uninsured risk: when provided with insurance against the primary catastrophic risk they face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969291
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
BEAMAN, LORI; KARLAN, DEAN; THUYSBAERT, BRAM; UDRY, … - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083136
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083397
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Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908064
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, christopher - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908080
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Macroinsurance for Microenterprises: A Randomized Experiment in Post-Revolution Egypt
McKenzie, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
that, contrary to what they profess, macroeconomic and political risk is not inhibiting the investment behavior of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084029