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Title
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Risk-sharing networks and insurance against illness
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Abstract
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| Most risk-sharing tests on developing country data are conducted at the level of the village; generally, the full risk-sharing hypothesis is rejected. This paper uses detailed data on all insurance networks within a village in Tanzania; networks are not clustered but largely overlapping. We test whether full risk-sharing occurs within these networks. While village level full-insurance cannot be rejected for food consumption, we find evidence consistent with at least partial insurance of non-food consumption via networks |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of development economics. - Amsterdam
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Publication
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Amsterdam
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2006
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ISSN
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0304-3878
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DOI
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10.1016/J.JDEVECO.2005.06.009
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Volume/pages
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81
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(2006)
, p. 337-356
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ISI
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000242276300004
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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