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

Beaman, Lori - 2015

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Forecasting profitability

Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Udry, Christopher - 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...

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