Localized and incomplete mutual insurance

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Who Cares about Relative Deprivation (2005, unknown): “…literature assessing the safety-net role of private transfers and other forms of support in poor countries; see, for example, Ravallion and Dearden (1988), Coate and Ravallion (1993), Murgai et al. (2002), Ligon et al., (2002), Fafchamps and Lund (2003), Maitra and Ray (2003) and Cox et al. (2004).”
Risk-Sharing and Endogenous Network Formation (2002, background): “Fafchamps and Lund (2000) and Murgai et. al. (2000) find that”
Risk-Sharing Networks (2007, result): “See also Murgai et al. (2002). These findings support suspicions of earlier work that finds incomplete insurance at the village level.”
Persistent poverty and informal credit (2011, background): “These results reflect possible frictions and associated costs of establishing a credit relation, analogous to the effect of physical distance in driving localized insurance (Murgai et al., 2002).”
The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda (2016, unknown): “7 See Fafchamps (1992), Foster and Rosenzweig (1995), Murgai et al. (2002). 8 Feigenberg, Field, and Pande (2013) show that encouraging social interaction via group meetings reduces default on individual loans in India.”