A. Our academic research on rainfall insurance Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend and James Vickery, 2009, Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence From India, Harvard Business School Working Paper 09-116. Online at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1374076.
Bertrand, Marianne, Dean Karlan, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir and Jonathan Zinman, 2009, What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
Caballero, Ricardo, 2000, Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America: A Conceptual Framework and Three Case Studies, EconomÃa, 1(1), 31-88.
Cai, Hongbin, Yuyu Chen, Hanming Fang and Li-An Zhou, 2009, Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment. Working Paper, University of Pennsylvania.
- Clarke, Daniel, 2010, A Theory of Rational Hedging, mimeo, Oxford University.
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- Cole, Shawn and Peter Tufano. 2007. BASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099.
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Cole, Shawn, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia, 2009, Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? Harvard Business School Working Paper 09-117.
Cull, Robert, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Jonathan Morduch, 2009, Microfinance Meets the Market, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23 (1), 167-192.
- Dercon, Stefan and Ingo Outes, 2009, Income Dynamics in Rural India: Testing for Poverty Traps and Multiple Equilibria, Working Paper, Oxford University.
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Doherty, Neil and Harris Schlesinger, 1990 Rational Insurance Purchasing: Consideration of Contract Nonperformance Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (1): 243-253.
Duflo, Esther and Chris Udry, 2004, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices, NBER Working Paper No. 10498.
Duflo, Esther, Michael Kremer and Jonathan Robinson 2008 How High are Rates of Return to Fertilizer? Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 98 (2): 482-488.
Feder, Gershon, Richard Just and David Zilberman, 1985. Adoption of Agricultural Innovations in Developing Countries: A Survey, Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 33(2), pp. 255-98.
- Gadgil, Sulochana and Siddhartha Gadgil, 2006, The Indian Monsoon, GDP and Agriculture. Economic and Political Weekly, 4887- 4895.
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Giné, Xavier, Robert Townsend and James Vickery, 2008, Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India, World Bank Economic Review, 22, 539-566. Online at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1318107 Giné, Xavier, Robert Townsend and James Vickery, 2007, Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Insurance Payouts in Southern India, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89, 12481254. Online at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1100218 B. Other cited papers Balk, Deborah, Thomas Buettner, Gordon McGranahan, Mark R. Montgomery, Christopher Small, Donghwan Kim, Valentina Mara, Megan Todd, S. Chandrasekhar and Sandra Baptista, 2009. Mapping the Risks of Climate Change in Developing Countries. Unpublished manuscript, City University of New York.
- Giné, Xavier, Robert Townsend and James Vickery, 2010, Forecasting When It Matters: Evidence from Semi-Arid India, Working Paper.
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Guiso, Luigi, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales, 2008, Trusting the Stock Market, Journal of Finance, 63(6):2557-2600.
Hill, Ruth Vargas and Angelino Viceisza, 2009, An Experiment on the Impact of Weather Shocks and Insurance on Risky Investment. Mimeo, IFPRI.
- Insurance Regulatory and Development Agency. 2005. Micro Insurance Regulations in Gazette of India. Extraordinary. Part III, Sec 4: 8-14. New Delhi.
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- Johnson, Doug. 2009. Can Workfare Serve as a Substitute for Weather Insurance? The Case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh, IFMR Working Paper Series 32.
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- Kalavakonda, Vijay and Olivier Mahul, 2004, Crop Insurance in Karnataka, Working Paper, World Bank.
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- Kunreuther, Howard and Richard Roth, Sr. (eds.) 1998. Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Disasters in the United States, Joseph Henry Press.
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Lim, Youngjae and Robert Townsend. 1998. General Equilibrium Models of Financial Systems: Theory and Measurement in Village Economies. Review of Economic Dynamics 1 (1): 59118.
- Lloyd's, 2009, Insurance in Developing Countries: Exploring Opportunities in Microinsurance. Report produced in conjunction with the MicroInsurance Centre. Available online at: http://www.microinsurancecentre.org/UI/DocAbstract.aspx.
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Lybbert, Travis, Francisco Galarza, John McPeak, Christopher B. Barrett, Steve Boucher, Michael R. Carter, Pin Chantarat, Aziz Fadlaoui, Andrew Mude. 2009. Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru University of California at Davis Working Paper.
Maccini, Sharon and Dean Yang, 2009, Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall, American Economic Review, 99, 1006-1026.
Miller, Douglas and Anna Paulson, 2007, Risk Taking and the Quality of Informal Insurance: Gambling and Remittances in Thailand, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Working Paper 2007-01.
Morduch, Jonathan. 1995. Income Smoothing and Consumption Smoothing. Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (3): 10314.
Paxson, Christina H.., 1992, `Using Weather Variability to Estimate the Response of Consumption to Changes in Transitory Income in Thailand', American Economic Review, 82, 15-33.
- Rao, Narahari, S. Gadgil, P.R. Seshagiri Rao, and K. Savithri. 2000. Tailoring strategies to rainfall variability The choice of the sowing window. Current Science, 78(10):12161230.
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Rosenzweig, Mark and Hans Binswanger, 1993, Wealth, Weather Risk and the Composition and Profitability of Agricultural Investments, Economic Journal, 103, 56-78.
- Shapiro, Jeremy, 2009, Weather Insurance and Investment Choice, mimeo, MIT Department of Economics.
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Shleifer, Andrei and Robert Vishny, 1992, Liquidation Values and Debt Capacity: A Market Equilibrium Approach, Journal of Finance, 47, 1343-1366.
Skees, Jerry, Peter Hazell and Mario Miranda, 1999, New Approaches to Crop Yield Insurance in Developing Countries, EPTD Discussion Paper 55, International Food Policy Research Institute.
Suri, Tavneet 2009 Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption mimeo MIT Sloan School of Management.
Townsend, Robert. 1994. Risk and Insurance in Village India. Econometrica 62 (3): 53992.
World Bank, 2005, Managing Agricultural Production Risk: Innovations In Developing Countries, World Bank Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank Press.
World Bank, 2006, Overcoming Drought: Adaptation Strategies for Andhra Pradesh, India, World Bank Publications, Washington, DC.
- World Bank, 2010, Innovative Finance For Development Solutions: Initiatives of the World Bank Group, World Bank Publications, Washington, DC.
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Yang, Dean and HwaJung Choi, 2007, Are Remittances Insurance? Evidence from Rainfall Shocks in the Philippines, World Bank Economic Review, 21, 219-248.