The adoption of new agricultural technologies may be discouraged because of their inherent riskiness. This study implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether the provision of insurance against a major source of production risk induces farmers to take out loans to invest in a new crop variety. The study sample was composed of roughly 800 maize and groundnut farmers in Malawi, where by far the dominant source of production risk is the level...
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2007/12/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4425
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2010/07/01
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Insurance, credit, and technology adoption : field experimental evidence from Malawi
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