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Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment / Hongbin Cai, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang, Li-An Zhou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cai, Hongbin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15396.
- NBER working paper series no. w15396
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- We report results from a large randomized natural field experiment conducted in southwestern China in the context of insurance for sows. Our study sheds light on two important questions about microinsurance. First, how does access to formal insurance affect farmers' production decisions? Second, what explains the low takeup rate of formal insurance, despite substantial premium subsidy from the government? We find that providing access to formal insurance significantly increases farmers' tendency to raise sows. We argue that this finding also suggests that farmers are not previously insured efficiently through informal mechanisms. We also provide several pieces of evidence suggesting that trust, or lack thereof, for government-sponsored insurance products is a significant barrier for farmers' willingness to participate in the insurance program.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2009.
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