Presentation: Altering Poverty Dynamics with Index Insurance in Kenya This presentation was presented on February 26, 2009 at Washington, DC describing the potential and the pitfalls of index insurance.
Paper: Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India This paper describes the contract design and institutional features of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India, and presents preliminary evidence on the determinants of insurance participation.
Paper: Underwriting Area-Based Yield Insurance to Crowd-In Credit Supply and Demand This paper instead analyzes two index-based insurance schemes, one based on a weather index, and a second based on measured average yields.
