Consumption Smoothing Across Space : Testing Theories of Risk-Sharing in the ICRISAT Study Region of South India

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Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth (2009, background): “Additional robustness tests that control for consumption outside the jati in the village, and study the co-movement of household consumption with jati 6An exception is Morduch (2004) who considers sub-caste groupings within villages as mutual-insurance networks.”
Shocks, Coping, and Outcomes for Pakistan's Poor: Health Risks Predominate (2009, unknown): “This is consistent with research based on the ICRISAT panel which finds that at least 75 per cent of income volatility is idiosyncratic (Morduch, 2004).”
Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products (2008, unknown): “Further, at the household level, idiosyncratic risk may be a major component of overall risk exposure (Dercon, 2005; Lybbert, Barrett, Desta, & Coppock, 2004; McPeak & Barrett, 2001; Morduch, 2005; Townsend, 1995).”
Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty (2002, methodology): “A similar approach is taken by Jalan and Ravallion (1999); see Morduch (2002) for a discussion of the approach and empirical evidence.”
Selling Labor Low: Wage Responses to Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries (2006, background): “A main focus of previous work is informal village insurance, or the extent to which a community pools idiosyncratic risk (see, e.g., Townsend 1994; Deaton 1997; Ravallion and Chaudhuri 1997; Attanasio and Rı́os-Rull 2000; Morduch 2001).”