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Do Disaster Experience and Knowledge Affect Insurance Take-up Decisions? / Jing Cai, Changcheng Song.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cai, Jing.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22403.
- NBER working paper series no. w22403
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- This study examines the effect of experience and knowledge on weather insurance adoption. First, we conduct insurance games with farmers, and find that the treatment improves real insurance take-up by 46%. The effect is not driven by changes in risk attitudes and perceived probability of disasters, or by learning of insurance benefits, but is driven by the experience acquired in the game. Second, we find that providing information about the payout probability has a strong positive effect on insurance take-up. Finally, when subjects receive both treatments, the probability information has a greater impact on take-up than does the disaster experience.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2016.
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