remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a …

remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … insurance. -- remittances ; insurance ; risk management strategies …Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances …

remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a …

remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as self-insurance. We also show that other risk management strategies …Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … are used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique …

remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances … can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a …

This paper uses a novel experimental design to test for the role of experience and information in insurance take-up in … rural China, where weather insurance was a new and highly subsidized product. We randomly select a group of poor households … to play insurance games and find that it improves the actual insurance take-up by 48%. In order to determine the …

Index triggers have enabled the extension of insurance to disaster risks by providing a simple mechanism to determine … insurance payment. Disaster risks are notoriously difficult to insure against due to the covariant nature of risks, moral hazard …

insurance product is affected by product priming that emphasizes insurance value to a family and group identity. We document … overall ambiguous effect on insurance demand. We explore several channels underlying the results and find evidence …