Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

By Dean S. Karlan, R. Osei, I. Osei-Akoto, Christopher R. Udry. 2012

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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Time versus State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya (2018, background): “In many other studies, including Karlan et al. ( 2014 ) and Cole et al. ( 2013 ) ( where the estimated elasticities were 2 and 1 respectively , farmers could choose how many units of insurance 15 Ex post, of course, only one state of the world is realized.”
Thinking Inside the Box: A Closer Look at Financial Inclusion and Household Income (2019, background): “…consumption, employment status, income and health (Angelucci et al., 2013; Banerjee et al., 2015; Karlan et al., 2010); and (3) improving access to insurance, which encourages riskier agricultural practice, while increasing income and children’s school days (Cole et al., 2013; Karlan et al., 2014).”
The Impact of Insurance Provision on Household Production and Financial Decisions (2016, neutral): “In another study, Karlan et al. (2014) use experimental methods to study the impact of insurance in Ghana.”
Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2017, background): “…both a country’s level of financial inclusion and financial development, including income per capita, good governance, the quality of institutions, availability of information, and the regulatory environment (Allen et al. 2016; Rojas-Suarez 2010; Karlan et al. 2014; Park and Mercado 2015).”
Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture (2019, neutral): “20 See Karlan et al. (2014), section III and online appendix 1 for a detailed description of the sample, data collection procedures, index insurance and cash grants interventions and the randomization.”
After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection (2013, positive): “Karlan et al. (2014) show that farmers who purchase rainfall index insurance in Ghana increase agricultural investment.”
Transfers, diversification and household risk strategies : experimental evidence with lessons for climate change adaptation (2012, neutral): “A notable exception is the growing body of studies analyzing weather insurance interventions showing mixed results, in part related to low take-up (Cole et al., 2012; Cole, Giné and Vickery, 2012, Giné and Yang, 2009, Karlan et al. 2012).”
Technological Innovations, Downside Risk, and the Modernization of Agriculture (2016, background): “This is important because the adoption of weather insurance has often remained low in the absence of high subsidies (Mobarak and Rosenzweig 2013; Cole et al. 2013; Dercon et al. 2014; Karlan et al. 2014).”
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches (2020, positive): “Experimental results for Ghana have shown that farmers that purchased insurance increased their use of chemical inputs by 24% (Karlan et al., 2014).”
ACHIEVING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (2016, background): “…both a country’s level of financial inclusion and financial development, including income per capita, good governance, the quality of institutions, availability of information, and the regulatory environment (Allen et al. 2016; Rojas-Suarez 2010; Karlan et al. 2014; Park and Mercado 2015).”