Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 1135-1145, September 2026.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Comparison of radiation-induced temporal lobe injury after helical tomotherapy versus conventional intensity-modulated radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a propensity score-matched cohort study. [PDF]
Radiat OncolLiu Q +8 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 1119-1134, September 2026.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Conditional survival rates after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy combined with surgery in intermediate-low locally advanced rectal cancer based on two-centre retrospective analysis. [PDF]
Sci RepWang G, Huang J, Tang H, Huang Y, Guo Y.
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 1244-1257, September 2026.ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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Reply to: Timing-specific neutrality in a Rigorous ICU anabolic trial. [PDF]
JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrVeldsman L +4 more
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From Cure Rate Models to Explainable Survival Analysis: SurvSHAP Based Insights for Credit Risk
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Volume 42, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT This study proposes a unified credit risk framework that combines mixture cure rate models with time‐varying SurvSHAP(t) explanations. The model separates the risk of default into incidence submodel (whether default occurs) and latency submodel (when default occurs among susceptibles).
Jacob Majakwara
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Vein-to-vein data: what predicts platelet response? [PDF]
Blood AdvRelke N, Cook RJ, Arnold DM.
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FINANCIAL PLANNING REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Nearly one‐fourth of workers claiming Social Security do so at age 62, while only one in ten wait until age 70, even though financial analyses often favor delay, a pattern that has long puzzled economists. Using a dynamic lifecycle model with Epstein–Zin recursive utility, we examine whether early claiming can be a reasonable choice once ...
Derek T. Tharp
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