Do farmers care about basis risk? Evidence from a field experiment in India
Despite the potential of weather index insurance as an innovative climate risk adaptation instrument for farmers in the developing world, there is a major barrier to its widespread uptake, namely “basis risk”. In this paper, we focus on the spatial dimension of basis risk by analysing rainfall patte...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-01-01
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Series: | Climate Risk Management |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212096319302128 |