Agricultural insurance programs are currently being championed by international donors in
many developing countries. They are acclaimed as promising instruments for coping with …

This article examines the connections between women's reproductive health, care
responsibilities, and the quality of work. The research suggests that the economic …

We explore how the introduction of formal insurance affects the within-village dynamics of
social capital in south-western Uganda. As a proxy for social capital, we use contributions in …

In many low‐and middle‐income countries, geographical accessibility continues to be a
barrier to health care utilization. In this paper, we aim to better understand the full …

Between 2016 and 2018, we observe in Uruguay a steep decline of almost 20 percent in the
number of total births, leading to the collapse of the adolescent fertility rate after decades of …

Several countries have implemented “family-centered” abstinence-only policies for
teenagers, as opposed to encouraging utilization and expansion of reproductive health …

Rural, indigenous populations in Mexico face barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive
health (SRH) resources and services. Given the lack of information to inform educational …

Teenage fertility is a social problem because of its private and public costs in countries of
different development levels. Reductions in adolescent birth rates do not necessarily follow …

This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the
introduction of formal insurance. We show that the availability of insurance changes people's …

Rural households in Ethiopia are exposed to a variety of covariate and idiosyncratic risks. In
2005, the Ethiopian government introduced the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and …