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Premium subsidy designs and crowding out of insurance demand
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is an important instrument to protect farmers against extreme weather events. Many countries provide subsidies for crop insurance products to make insurance more affordable for farmers. The Federal Crop Insurance Program in the United States and major European crop insurance programs such as in Spain, Italy, and France focus on ...
Tim Philippi
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Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler +3 more
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Rebuilding Health Insurance Through Transparent, Tiered Contribution Pools
This essay presents a reimagined financial model for health insurance that prioritizes individual transparency, decentralized support, and rapid emergency response. Built on a multi-tiered structure of personal ownership, social contribution, and last-resort trust reserves, the proposed system challenges the inefficiencies and moral shortcomings of ...
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Are the poor too poor to demand health insurance? [PDF]
Community based micro insurance has aroused much interest and hope in meeting health care challenges facing the poor. In this paper we explore how institutional rigidities such as credit constraint impinge on demand for health insurance and how insurance
Johannes Jutting, Rajeev Ahuja
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Income sharing for common pool resources with uncertain productivity
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We address the interconnected issues of externalities in the use of a natural common‐pool resource system and adverse effects of environmental uncertainty on risk‐averse resource users. We set up a simple analytical model and derive conditions such that insurance by means of an income sharing mechanism mitigates externalities and hence ...
Claudia Kelsall +2 more
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Population-Level Trends in Gastric Cancer Mortality and Incidence After Expansion of Japanese National Health Insurance Coverage for Helicobacter pylori Eradication: A Descriptive Time-Trend Study. [PDF]
HelicobacterAsaka M +4 more
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The Purpose and Limits of Social Health Insurance [PDF]
This contribution seeks to answer two related questions. First, what is the purpose of social health insurance? Or put in slightly different terms, what are the reasons for social (or public) health insurance to exist, even to dominate private health ...
Peter Zweifel
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu +4 more
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The association between basic pension insurance and fertility intentions among flexibly employed workers in China's new forms of employment. [PDF]
Front Public HealthZheng Q, Zhou L.
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract In Canada, precarious migration is largely invisibilized. Nonetheless, b/ordering greatly affects people's realities by limiting access to social rights. In Quebec, migrants with precarious status (MPS) do not have access to healthcare, although Quebec has a “universal” healthcare coverage.
Émilie Pigeon‐Gagné +3 more
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