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Title Risk Pooling through Transfers in Rural Ethiopia
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1871/10674
Date 2007
Author(s) Pan, Lei
Abstract It is often assumed that transfers received from governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), friends and relatives help rural households to pool risk. In this paper I investigate two functions of transfers in Ethiopia: risk pooling and income redistribution. Unlike most of the literature this paper investigates not only whether but also how much risk pooling is achieved. I find evidence that transfers from governments/NGOs play a role in insuring covariant income shocks, (weak) evidence that transfers from friends/relatives insure idiosyncratic income shocks and evidence that transfers target the poor households. However, the contributions of transfers to risk pooling and income redistribution are economically very limited.
Subject(s) Risk; Insurance; Income redistribution; I38; O17
Language en
Publisher Amsterdam: Tinbergen Institute
Type of publication Research paper
Format 229121 bytes; application/pdf
Identifier Discussion paper TI, 07-014/2
Repository Amsterdam - VU University of Amsterdam
Added to C-A: 2008-12-22;02:52:30