The need to insure against idiosyncratic income risk leads to the formation of risksharing groups in village economies where formal financial markets are absent

The limited commitment model is popular for the analysis of village risk-sharing as it captures both the observed partial character of insurance and the presump

Lessons learned in the process of designing and implementing one of the longest-running panel data surveys in development economics.

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