Microinsurance Decisions: Gendered Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

Daniel Clarke and Neha Kumar

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Abstract: This paper draws from a field research experiment to examine the gendered aspects of willingness to pay for index-based insurance in Bangladesh. Participants were presented with risky lotteries and a specific insurance contract and were asked to choose how much (if any) of the insurance they wanted to buy at a given price. The probability structure (whether the risk was catastrophic or moderate and whether there was high or low basis risk) varied within sessions.

Keywords: Bangladesh; index insurance; gender; risk preference; rural women; demographic characteristics; risk preferences; agricultural risks; education; wealth; asset ownership; price; research experiment; men (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-01
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