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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei, Robert Darko; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; … - 2013

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 …

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean - 2013

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 …

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Agricultural decisions after relaxing credit and risk constraints

Karlan, Dean; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Osei, Robert Darko; … - 2012

. -- agriculture ; insurance markets ; credit markets ; risk ; underinvestment ; misallocation … 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 …

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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 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...

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Savings groups reduce vulnerability, but have mixed effects on financial inclusion

Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Valdivia, J. Martín - 2020

This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of savings groups on poverty, vulnerability, and financial inclusion outcomes in rural Peru. Using a cluster randomized control trial and relying on both survey and administrative records, we investigate the impact of savings groups after more...

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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali

Beaman, Lori - 2015

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The Deadly Cost of Informal Lending : An Economic Model of Agrarian Suicide in Punjab

Johnson, Daniel K. N.; Singh, Lakhwinder; Bhangoo, Kesar; … - 2020

The Indian state of Punjab, which initially benefited greatly from the Green Revolution, has suffered from a dramatic rise in agrarian suicides for several decades. We use a carefully constructed sample of over one thousand farmers in the epicenter, and build a three-stage model of agricultural...

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The impact of weather insurance on consumption, investment, and welfare

De Nicola, Francesca - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 637-661

liquidity constraints, basis risk, and loading factor on the insurance premium may account for the low take-up that is often …

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Impact of weather insurance on small scale farmers : a natural experiment

Dietrich, Stephan; Ibanez, Marcela - 2015

This paper explores the impacts of traditional agricultural insurance that offers protection against climatic shocks on small-scale tobacco farmers in Colombia. We analyze the impacts of access to the insurance on household financial outcomes after a period of severe climatic events that caused...

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How Australian Farmers Deal with Risk

Khuu, Amy - 2012

Farm survey data show that the risk aversion of West Australian farmers is comparable to that of other asset holders … other perils but not against the greatest risk – drought. The farm survey indicates that adverse selection does not arise in … the existing market for crop insurance because insurance premiums reflect the risk of crop failure. However, a future …

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