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Chantarat, S.Mude, Andrew G.Barrett, Christopher B.[Willingness to pay for index based livestock insurance: results from a field experiment in northern Kenya]Willingness to pay for index based livestock insurance: results from a field experiment in northern Kenya

The effective design and implementation of interventions that reduce vulnerability and poverty require a solid understanding of underlying poverty dynamics and associated behavioral responses. Stochastic and dynamic benefit streams can make it difficult for the poor to learn the value of such int...


Lybbert, T.J.Galarza, F.B.McPeak, J.G.Barrett, Christopher B.Boucher, S.Carter, M.R.Chantarat, P.Fadlaoui, A.Mude, Andrew G.[Dynamic field experiments in development economics: Risk valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru]Dynamic field experiments in development economics: Risk valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru

This paper describes a novel effort at developing index-based insurance for locationaveraged livestock mortality as a means to fill an important void in the risk management instruments available to protect the main asset of pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya, where insurance ma...


Chantarat, S.Mude, Andrew G.Barrett, Christopher B.Carter, M.R.[Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya]Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product designed to compensate for area average predicted livestock mortality loss in northern Kenya, where previous work has established the presence of poverty traps. We simulate household-specific wealth dyn...


Chantarat, S.Mude, Andrew G.Barrett, Christopher B.Turvey, C.G.[The performance of index based livestock insurance: ex ante assessment in the presence of a poverty trap]The performance of index based livestock insurance: ex ante assessment in the presence of a poverty trap

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