RISK SHARING, COMMITMENT, AND INFORMATION: AN EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS

By A. Barr, Garance Genicot. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Risk Sharing Between Households (2011, methodology): “Experimental evidence on the formation of risk pooling groups can be found in Barr and Genicot (2008) and Barr, Dekker and Fafchamps (2008). These two papers use data from a eld experiment in rural communities of Zimbabwe.”
Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks (2012, methodology): “The experiment was based on a version of the risk-pooling game (Barr, 2003; Barr and Genicot, 2008; Barr, Dekker and Fafchamps, 2010).”
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2015, methodology): “Our approach builds on the seminal work of Binswanger (1980) and more recent contributions by Barr and Genicot (2008) and Harrison, Humphrey, and Verschoor (2010).”
Choice Under Uncertainty: Evidence from Ethiopia, India and Uganda (2010, unknown): “Later contributions include experiments in Zimbabwe by Barr and Genicot (2008), in Chile and Peru by Barr and Packard (2003, 2005), in India, Ethiopia and Uganda by Humphrey and Verschoor (2004a,b), and in Timor-Leste by Botelho et al.”
Motives for sharing in social networks (2012, background): “The two recent papers studying the ‘who’ of sharing are Barr and Genicot (2008) and Attanasio et al. (2009).”
Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters (2015, unknown): “This is consistent with Barr and Genicot (2008) who find that villagers in Zimbabwe are willing to make more risky choices when playing a similar 30For example, remittances may be received by households that have experienced more severe disasters and so are expected to be more risk-averse.”
Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies (2012, background): “9Our design is related to those of Barr and Genicot (2008), Attanasio, Barr, Cardenas, Genicot, and Meghir (2012), and Ligon and Schechter (2012), who also use experiments which capture the desire to avoid social sanctions outside the lab.”
The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance (2013, methodology): “Our methodology contributes to a growing experimental literature on risk-sharing, which finds that increased opportunity for commitment across individuals is associated with a higher willingness to undertake profitable but riskier investments, and that close interpersonal relationships predict risk ”
Eliciting risk preferences: When is simple better? (2010, methodology): “A widely-used means of measuring risk attitudes is one based on the two-stage preference-revelation mechanism developed by Becker et al. (1964). This procedure requires subjects to choose a selling price for a specified lottery. A randomly drawn value then determines whether the subject sells the lo”