Do Index Insurance Programs Live Up to Their Promises ? Aggregating Evidence from Multiple Experiments (English)

Despite limited uptake, index insurance is often seen as one of the most remarkable innovations of the past decades to help smallholder farmers manage risks. This paper uses a Bayesian hierarchical model to aggregate evidence from existing experiments and assess the external validity of their results. The findings show positive but highly heterogeneous responses to index insurance across experiments. Interventions expanding access to index insurance...

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Castaing,Pauline;

Gazeaud,Jules;
Document Date
2022/09/06
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Policy Research Working Paper
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WPS10161
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1
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World,
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Other,
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2022/09/06
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Disclosed
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Do Index Insurance Programs Live Up to Their Promises ? Aggregating Evidence from Multiple Experiments

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Castaing,Pauline; Gazeaud,Jules.

Do Index Insurance Programs Live Up to Their Promises ? Aggregating Evidence from Multiple Experiments (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10161 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099434009062278901

Do Index Insurance Programs Live Up to Their Promises ? Aggregating Evidence from Multiple Experiments (English)

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