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Characterising informal risk sharing in family networks: Group size and infor...
This dataset contains the analysis data file for the paper "Group Size and Efficiency of Informal Risk Sharing" by Fitzsimons, Malde and Vera-Hernandez (2015). It investigates... -
Characterising risk sharing in extended family networks: Socially close and d...
This depository was used to analyse how socially close (e.g. parents, children, siblings) and distant (e.g. cousins, and siblings' spouse's families) connections within... -
Do crop insurance-certified seed bundles crowd-in investments? Experimental e...
We use a randomised experiment in Kenya to show that smallholder farmers respond to receiving a free hybrid crop insurance conditional on purchase of certified seeds, by... -
Risk and ambiguity aversion behaviour in index-based insurance uptake decisio...
We conducted lab-in-the-field experiments with 1139 smallholders out of whom 596 have adopted IBI in Ethiopia to elicit their risk and ambiguity aversion behaviour, and examine... -
Does index-based insurance improve household welfare? Empirical evidence base...
Evidence on the welfare impacts of index-based insurance (IBI) is scant. We use two-round panel data on households who had access to adopt IBI in the Rift-valley zone of... -
Uptake and impact of interlinked index-based insurance with credit and agricu...
Randomized experiment in Ethiopia that assesses the relevance of bundling index-based insurance with credit and access to inputs. We compare four index-based insurance options... -
Dynamic triggers, rainfall risk-contingent credit in Sub-Saharan Africa 2017-...
This project used historical data on rainfall in Kenya. The economic problem we seek to address is the design of a specific-event weather insurance product that can be embedded... -
CCCEPII: Investigating flood insurance and other risk management strategies 2...
This research followed a mixed-method approach with quantitative and qualitative data that could provide a broader view of the situation of SMEs. On the one hand, to fulfil... -
Risk Sharing Mechanisms To Mitigate The Financial Consequences Of Pandemic Ri...
This was a fifteen-month research project (Jul 2019 – Oct 2021) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (Risk sharing mechanisms to mitigate the financial... -
Sample of Insurance Policies, 1750-1850
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The aim of this study was to collect information on capital formation in Britain, 1750-1850 Main Topics:... -
Personal Injury Survey, 1966-1973
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The aim of this survey was to provide estimates of the numbers of people suffering injuries under... -
Family Resources Survey, 1979
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Family Resources Survey, 1979 is a follow-up to the Family Finances Survey, 1978 (FFS), conducted by... -
Negative Option and Inertia Selling among Holders of Credit Agreements, 1991
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Among holders of credit agreements (retail store cards, loans/h.p., mail order credit, credit cards): to... -
Digest of Welsh Historical Statistics : Labour, 1801-1975
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This machine-readable version of John Williams' iDigest of Welsh Historical Statistics/i is the result of... -
Telling the Future: Individual and Household Plans among Younger Adults, 1999
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This study is a follow up from earlier survey work conducted in 1997, 'Individual and Household... -
Cambridge Centre for Business Research Survey of the London Insurance Market,...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The research had two major objectives: examining the implications of the growing foreign ownership in... -
Public Understanding of Genomics and the Dynamics of Opinion Change: a Panel ...
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. At a time when gene technologies are gaining increasing prominence, this research enabled a better... -
Patterns and Prospects for Partnership at Work in the United Kingdom, 2001-2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This project aimed to examine partnership at work as a social process in which the forms and outputs of... -
Delivering Financial Services in the Home, 2002-2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The qualitative research aimed to investigate the feasibility of using home service as a means of... -
Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland, 2002-2003
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The objectives of the Poverty and Social Exclusion in Northern Ireland, 2002-2003 (PSENI) study were...