This presentation took place at Rome, Italy on June 13, 2012 discussing the comparisons between contracts being linear or in lump sum for farmers once preference parameters are considered.

This presentation took place in Lima, Peru on July 11, 2011 and explores the benefits of better public and private sector organization in efforts exploring index insurance.

A natural experiment on the effect of the hold-out problem underlying contractual arrangements in economies with weak legal systems.

We explore how dynamic field experiments can help (i) intended beneficiaries learn and understand these complicated benefit streams and (ii) researchers better understand how the poor respond to risk when faced with nonlinear welfare dynamics.

This paper instead analyzes two index-based insurance schemes, one based on a weather index, and a second based on measured average yields.