Insurance, Credit, and Technology Adoption : Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Does production risk suppress the demand for credit? We implemented a randomized field experiment to ask whether provision of insurance against a major source of production risk induces farmers to take out loans to adopt a new crop technology. The study sample was composed of roughly 800 maize and g...
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Language: | EN |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5782 |