Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment

By Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang, Li-an Zhou. 2009

167 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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In Accounting

1. J. Platteau
2. Li-an Zhou
3. A. M. Mobarak
4. Hanming Fang
5. Mark R. Rosenzweig
6. Boliang Zhu
7. Jenny C. Aker

In Economics and Econometrics

1. A. M. Mobarak
2. J. Platteau
3. Li-an Zhou
4. Wouter Gelade
5. Philippe Quirion
6. Hanming Fang
7. Mark R. Rosenzweig
8. Hongbin Cai

In Soil Science

1. Li-an Zhou
2. Hanming Fang
3. Hongbin Cai
4. Yuyu Chen
5. A. M. Mobarak
6. J. Platteau
7. Wouter Gelade
8. Philippe Quirion

Citations in the corpus

• A field experiment on the impact of weather shocks and insurance on risky investment (2011, unknown): “One exception is a recent study by Cai et al. (2009) which examined the impact of indem-nity sow insurance on investment in sows in China.”
• The Demand for Microinsurance: A Literature Review (2017, background): “The potential trust-building role of experience with the institution that delivers the insurance is highlighted by Cai et al. (2009), who study a government sponsored livestock insurance program.”
• Selling Formal Insurance to the Informally Insured (2012, background): “Previous marketing experiments have explored other constraints limiting the widespread adoption of insurance products in developing countries, including liquidity constraints, contract complexity, trust, and limited liability credit (Giné et al., 2008; Cole et al., 2010; Giné and Yang, 2009; Cai et ”
• Offering Rainfall Insurance to Informal Insurance Groups: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia (2012, unknown): “Cai et al., 2009) in China or (Dercon et al., 2011 in Kenya). Theymay also hold true for index-insurance products (Cole et al., 2013). In addition Clarke (2011) shows that the basis risk inherent in these products, like any other form of contractual nonperformance (Doherty and Schlesinger, 1990), su”
• The Effect of Microinsurance on Economic Activities: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment (2015, background): “…the number of pigs (for pork production) in 2009 and 2010, as well as the average number of pigs in the three-year period 2008 to 50 In table 7 of Cai et al. (2009), we document that the number of insured sows is significantly associated with the coverage of new rural cooperative medical plans…”
• Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research challenges (2013, background): “Therefore, many ongoing studies concentrate upon trust, readability of the underlying index and the contract, transparency of the process from index measure to funding (Cai et al., 2009; Dercon et al., 2011). For instance, Cole et al. (2009) highlighted the trust in the supplying institution and cre”
• Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: A Macrodevelopment Perspective (2015, unknown): “Moreover, the saving decisions here are modeled differently from the popular warm-glow bequest motives (Banerjee and Newman, 1993; Caselli and Gennaioli, 2013; Ghatak and Jiang, 2002; Giné and Townsend, 2004; Jeong and Townsend, 2008, 2007; Lloyd-Ellis and Bernhardt, 2000), in that they respond to…”