Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi

Does production risk suppress the demand for credit? We implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether provision of insurance against a major source of production risk induces farmers to take out loans to adopt a new crop technology. The study sample was composed of roughly 800 maize and g...

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Main Authors: Gine, Xavier, Yang, Dean
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Insurance
Insurance Companies G220
Economic Development: Agriculture
Natural Resources
Energy
Environment
Other Primary Products O130
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences
Diffusion Processes O330
Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets Q120
Agricultural Finance Q140
Agricultural Policy
Food Policy Q180
Microdata Set
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5782

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