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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

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

Barrett, Christopher B.Carter, M.R.Chantarat, S.McPeak, J.G.Mude, Andrew G.[Altering poverty dynamics with index insurance: northern Kenya’s HSNP+]Altering poverty dynamics with index insurance: northern Kenya’s HSNP+

Barrett, Christopher B.[The favorable impact of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): Results among Ethiopian and Kenyan pastoralists]The favorable impact of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI): Results among Ethiopian and Kenyan pastoralists

Cash transfers and index insurance have become popular interventions by development agencies worldwide, yet surprisingly little is known about these programs' comparative impacts on participant behavior or well-being. This paper exploits exogenous variation in program participation and panel data...


Jensen, Nathaniel D.Barrett, Christopher B.Mude, Andrew G.[Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya]Cash transfers and index insurance: A comparative impact analysis from northern Kenya

This article describes a novel index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product piloted among pastoralists in Northern Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of poverty. We describe the methodology used to design the contract and its underl...


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

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