Is Consumption Insured against Illness? Evidence on Vulnerability of Households to Health Shocks in Rural Ethiopia

By A. Asfaw, Joachim von Braun. Economic development and cultural change, 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Safety Research, Soil Science

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• Health shocks and consumption smoothing in rural households: Does microcredit have a role to play? (2012, background): “Others (Cochrane, 1991; Gertler and Gruber, 2002; Dercon and Krishnan, 2000; Asfaw and Braun, 2004; Wagstaff, 2007; Lindelow and Wagstaff, 2007; Beegle et al., 2008) however find that illness shocks have a negative and statistically significant effect on consumption or income. One general conclusion”