Use of subsidized insurance policy in climate adaptation strategies: the case of pastoral regions in China

G Zeren, J Tan, Z Zheng, M Li, F Yang - Climate Policy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Insurance plays an important role in building rural livelihood resilience, in the context of
climate change. Existing research examines the factors influencing insurance uptake and …

[HTML][HTML] The dual role of insurance in input use: Mitigating risk versus curtailing incentives

D Pietrobon - Journal of Development Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Insurance can encourage the use of risk-increasing inputs, but it can also decrease people's
incentives to exert effort when the latter is difficult to monitor. This effort reduction can be …

Index-Based Yield Protection for Smallholder Farmers

K Lu, JSJ Song, C Zhang - Available at SSRN, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
Government subsidies are common in the agricultural sector to protect farmers from
unexpected losses. Two major forms of agricultural subsidies are price protection, under …