Risk-sharing networks and insurance against illness

By J. Weerdt, Stefan Dercon. 2006

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Subfields: Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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Fate and Fear: Risk and its Consequences in Africa (2008, background): “Deaton (1992) combined this with an assumption on the absence of credit markets (At+1 ≥ 0) and exogenous risky income yt to derive predictions on the role of buffer stock savings in developing countries, for example analyzed in Czukas et al.”
Risk Sharing and Transactions Costs: Evidence from Kenya's Mobile Money Revolution (2014, background): “This may be reasonable for two reasons: rst, households were asked in the survey to report only unexpected events that a¤ected them26; and, second, reported shocks are not systematically correlated with 25 In most empirical work, including in developing countries, the hypothesis that households are”
Risk Sharing Between Households (2011, background): “Similar results are reported in Foster and Rosenzweig (2001) and De Weerdt and Dercon (2006). This is consistent with much of the previous evidence which shows that most transfers between”
The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification* (2011, unknown): “…to a broad set of microeconomic outcomes, ranging from employment (Munshi (2003), Laschever (2007), and Beaman (2008)) and informal insurance (e.g. Weerdt and Dercon (2006)) to performance in the financial industry (Cohen, Frazzini, and Malloy (2008), Hochberg, Ljungqvist, and Lu (2007), and…”
Econometrics of Network Formation (2016, methodology): “f(g) := βL · ∑ i ∑ j Aij + βT · ∑ i ∑ j<k AijAjkAik.”
Coping with shocks in rural Ethiopia (2013, background): “See, for example, de Weerdt and Dercon (2006), Gertler and Gruber (2002), Gertler, Levine, and Moretti (2009), Hoddinott (2006), Islam and Maitra (2012), Kochar (1999), Sparrow et al. (forthcoming), Wagstaff (2007).”
Mobile money and risk sharing against village shocks (2018, background): “This builds on a number of papers that have examined links to others outside the village and how households share risk across a larger network of family and friends (Fafchamps and Lund, 2003; Rosenzweig, 1988; De Weerdt and Dercon, 2006). The mechanism proposed here through which mobile money allows”