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Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies()

We show how to use panel data on household consumption to directly estimate households’ risk preferences. Specifically, we measure heterogeneity in risk aversion among households in Thai villages using a full risk-sharing model, which we then test allowing for this heterogeneity. There is substantia...

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Main Authors: Chiappori, Pierre-André, Samphantharak, Krislert, Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam, Townsend, Robert M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052898/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24932226
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3982/QE131
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