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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comment on: Travel and financial burdens of cataract surgical care in South India: Comparison of postoperative follow-up at local vision centers versus an urban eye hospital. [PDF]

Indian J Ophthalmol
Sahare H, Anupama H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

State minimum wage laws and state-level rates of new HIV diagnoses among Black, Latine, and White US women and men, 2010-2019. [PDF]

J Epidemiol Community Health
Zubizarreta D, Chen JT, Beccia AL, Austin SB, Bailey Z, Burris S, Cloud L, Agénor M.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao, Simon Meister, Lucie Maruejols, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

World in crisis should accelerate universal health reforms. [PDF]

BMJ Public Health
Yates R, Bertram K, Lal A, Joshi N, van der Meulen M, Koonin J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects Of Labor Unions On Nurse Staffing Ratios And Quality Of Care In US Nursing Homes, 2013-21. [PDF]

Health Aff (Millwood)
Dean A, McCallum J, Venkataramani AS, Chatterjee P, Coe NB, Michaels D.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The impact of Balint Groups on empathy and patient-centeredness in Brazilian medical students: a prospective pre-post interventional study. [PDF]

BMC Med Educ
Leão JRB, de Fátima Lopes Calvo Tibério I.   +1 more
europepmc   +1 more source

National and State Societal Costs of Schizophrenia in the US in 2024.

JAMA Psychiatry
Krasa HB, Baumgardner JR, Brewer IP, Chou JW, Flottemesch T, Markowitz JT, Williams C, Nagendra A.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source