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  1. Migration and informal insurance
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Edition: Current version: July 10, 2019
    Series: Cowles Foundation discussion paper ; no. 2185 (July 2019)
    Subjects: Informal Insurance; Migration; Bangladesh; RCT
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 79 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Migration and informal insurance
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT

    Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in... more

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    Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We experimentally document that randomly offering poor rural households subsidies to migrate leads to a 40% improvement in risk sharing in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration opportunities arise. We estimate the model and find that welfare gains from migration subsidies are 42% larger, compared with the welfare gains without spillovers, once we account for the changes in risk sharing. Our analysis illustrates that (a) ignoring the spillover effects on the network gives an incomplete picture of the welfare effects of migration, and (b) informal risk sharing may be an essential determinant of the takeup of new income-generating technologies.

     

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    Edition: Current version: July 10, 2019
    Series: Economic Growth Center discussion paper ; no. 1064
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 79 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Migration and informal insurance
    Published: July 2019
    Publisher:  National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

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    Series: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research ; 26082
    Scope: 77 Seiten, Illustrationen
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