The Impact of Insurance Provision on Household Production and Financial Decisions

By Jing Cai. 2016

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Universal Basic Income in the Developing World (2019, unknown): “One exception is Cai (2016), who uses a triple-difference estimation to show that government subsidized crop insurance in Jiangxi province in China raises the take up of the high return but high risk tobacco crop.”
Financial Inclusion and Inclusive Growth: A Review of Recent Empirical Evidence (2017, background): “, 2015) and weather insurance against yield losses increases tobacco production (Cai, 2016).”
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya (2011, unknown): “Specifically, offering free delivery to farmers early in the season increases fertilizer use by 47 to 70 percent. This effect is greater than that of offering free delivery, even with a 50 percent subsidy on fertilizer, later in the season. Following an approach similar to O’Donoghue and Rabin (2006”
Using agriculture for development: Supply- and demand-side approaches (2020, unknown): “Cai (2016) shows that a weather insurance policy in China induced tobacco farmers to increase their production of this risky but highly profitable crop by 16 percent and their borrowing by 29 percent.”
After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection (2013, unknown): “Cai (2016) demonstrates that tobacco insurance increases the land tobacco farmers devoted to risky tobacco production by 20% in China.”