literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. This paper uses a randomized field experiment in Senegal … and Burkina Faso to compare male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are … offered a variety of savings instruments. The paper finds that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural …

literature is still scant as to which products are the most effective. This paper uses a randomized field experiment in Senegal … and Burkina Faso to compare male and female farmers who are offered index-based agricultural insurance with those who are … offered a variety of savings instruments. The paper finds that female farm managers were less likely to purchase agricultural …

insurance induces farmers to shift production toward higher-return but higher-risk cash crops, particularly among more …-educated farmers. The results support the view that financial innovation may help mitigate the real effects of uninsured production …, but substantially less than one-for-one, suggesting that farmers' valuations are inconsistent with a fully rational …

controlled trial involving Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production decisions. The … authors find that insurance provision induces farmers to invest more in higher-return but rainfall-sensitive cash crops …, particularly among educated farmers. This shift in behavior occurs ex ante, when realized monsoon rainfall is still uncertain. The …

controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall insurance product affects production … decisions. We find that insurance provision induces farmers — particularly educated farmers — to shift production toward higher … farmers shield payouts from claims by relatives …