Barriers to household risk management:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington International Monetary Fund 2012
Series:IMF working paper (Online) WP/12/195
Subjects:
Online Access:FAW01
FAW02
FLA01
Item Description:Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Insurance Contract Design and Summary Statistics; A. Product Description; B. Summary Statistics; III. Experimental Design; IV. Experimental Results; A. Andhra Pradesh; B. Gujarat: Video Experiments; C. Gujarat: Flyer Experiments; V. Discussion of Experimental Results; A. Price Relative to Actuarial Value; B. Trust; C. Liquidity Constraints; D. Financial Literacy and Education; E. Framing, Salience and Other Behavioral Factors; VI. Non-Experimental Evidence; A. Correlates of Insurance Purchase; B. Self-Reported Explanations for Non-Purchase
VII. Improving Household Risk Management: Tentative Lessons and ConclusionsReferences; VIII. Appendix
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product. Demand is significantly price sensitive, but widespread take-up would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints and limited salience are significant non-price frictions that constrain demand. We s
Physical Description:44 pages
ISBN:9781475512342
1475512341
1475593686
9781475593686

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