This chapter reviews the literature identifying the different roles that family and kinship
networks play in sharing risk. After a brief overview of efficient risk sharing, we discuss the …

Despite the significant risks and uncertainties that farmers in developing and emerging
countries face in their production process, efforts at encouraging them to adopt agricultural …

We investigate whether experiencing a natural disaster affects risk-taking behavior. We
conduct standard risk games (using real money) with randomly selected individuals in rural …

We study the estimation of risk preferences with experimental data and focus on the trade-
offs when choosing between two different elicitation methods that have different degrees of …

This article measures the economic impacts of social pressure to share income with kin and
neighbours in rural Kenyan villages. We conduct a lab experiment in which we randomly …

Microfinance clients were randomly assigned to repayment groups that met either weekly or
monthly during their first loan cycle, and then graduated to identical meeting frequency for …

We use recruitment into a laboratory experiment in Kolkata, India to analyze how social
networks select individuals for jobs. The experiment allows subjects to refer actual network …

We estimate the impact of Kenya's postelection crisis on individual risk preferences. The
crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating …

We explore whether traditional sharing norms in kinship networks affect consumption and
accumulation decisions of poor black households in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Using a …

Using data from an experiment conducted in 70 Colombian communities, we investigate
who pools risk with whom when trust is crucial for enforcing risk pooling arrangements. We …