Belissa, Temesgen, Lensink, Robert and Marr, Ana ORCID: 0000-0002-8764-5682 (2018) Uptake and impact of interlinked index-based insurance with credit and agricultural inputs: experimental evidence from Ethiopia. Report. UK Data Service - Economic and Social Research Council, Department for International Development, Colchester, Essex. (doi:https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-853429)

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Abstract

This paper examines the results of randomized experiments in Ethiopia that assess the relevance of bundling index-based insurance (IBI) with credit and inputs. We compare four IBI options and their impact on adoption of modern technologies, consumption and productivity: (1) standard IBI; (2) newly-developed IBI, i.e. promoted via farmer groups and featuring a delayed premium option; (3) new IBI bundled with credit; and (4) new IBI bundled with credit and inputs. We find that only when farmers adopt a package comprised of insurance, credit and inputs, do they significantly increase their investment in modern agricultural technologies and, consequently, productivity grows.

Item Type:	Monograph (Report)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	index-based Insurance (IBI); interlinked IBI-credit-input; randomized control trial
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business
Related URLs:	https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/tr...
Last Modified:	14 Feb 2024 12:00
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/23810

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