Microinsurance has recently received much attention as a promising tool to protect poor
individuals from important shocks. Yet, voluntary demand from people has been low …

What do we know about the role of extended families and kinship networks for redistributing
resources? What gaps in our knowledge most need to be filled? How can we best organize …

Recent years have witnessed a tremendous surge of empirical studies with data endowed
with a topology, such as spatial data or network data. In these data, unobserved shocks can …

We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tap** digital archives for
nearly 3500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that …

We consider statistical inference for regression when data are grouped into clusters, with
regression model errors independent across clusters but correlated within clusters …

We explore the impact of reduced transaction costs on risk sharing by estimating the effects
of a mobile money innovation on consumption. In our panel sample, adoption of the …

Soil fertility depletion is considered one of the main biophysical limiting factors for increasing
per capita food production for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The adoption and …

Digital literacy is a crucial skill for accessing the benefits of the digital economy. Analyzing
the impact of digital literacy on the risk of falling back into poverty is of great practical …

We provide an overview and synthesis of the literatures analyzing games in which players
are connected via a network structure. We discuss, in particular, the impact of the structure of …

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