Barriers to Household Risk Management : Evidence from India /

Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is significantly pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Cole, Shawn, Gine, Xavier, Tobacman, Jeremy
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/195
Online Access:Full text available on IMF