Gendered Impacts of Index-Insurance on Food-Consumption: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Timu, Anne G.; Gustafson, Christopher R.; Mieno, Taro

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“…Sub-Saharan Africa provides strong evidence that fintech companies can significantly close the gender gap in access to and use of financial services (Yeyouomo et al, 2023). Data on pastoralist household food consumption in southern Ethiopia show that index insurance can provide financial inclusion and resilience against climate change for poor female farmers in developing countries (Timu et al, 2023). The significant increase in women's acceptance of digital finance in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic (Budi et al, 2023) proves that fintech not only improves financial inclusion for women, but also improves women's voice in family decision-making.…”

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Financial Inclusion Practice and the Status of Rural Women in Family: Based on a Field Survey in Gansu China

Cheng,

Hu,

2024

AJIBM

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This paper investigates the impact of financial inclusion on the status of rural women in their families in China. Financial inclusion raises hopes for decreasing poverty and improving gender equality. The former has been supported by many empirical studies, and the latter needs more validation. China attaches great importance to the role of financial inclusion in reducing poverty, but pays less attention to female financial inclusion, and scholars also ignore the relationship between financial inclusion and the status of women in family. This study aims to fill this gap. We propose five research hypotheses that articulate how financial inclusion promotes or improves the status of women in family, and use a field survey in Gansu Province in western China for empirical testing. We find that financial inclusion in China promotes rural women's development and improves their status in the family, but this is not obvious overall. Specifically, digital payment, financial literacy education and financial management based on fintech partially contribute to women's family status, while the effect of formal individual savings accounts depends on how women use them. We further find indication that lowering the threshold for loans is not associated with the status of rural women in family, and the household-based microcredit model may hide or even exacerbate gender inequality in families.

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Financial Inclusion Practice and the Status of Rural Women in Family: Based on a Field Survey in Gansu China

Cheng,

Hu,

2024

AJIBM

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“…Within-subject designs generate more data per participant, thus providing more control over potentially unobservable individual-specific factors that may influence valuation (Gustafson, Lybbert, and Sumner 2016a). Within-subject designs also permit the analysis of changes in behavior in response to a stimulus, such as exposure to information, facilitating examination of updating behavior (Lybbert et al 2007;Gustafson, Lybbert, and Sumner 2016b;Timu et al 2018;Meerza and Gustafson 2019). Further, the use of within-subject designs eliminates potential failure of randomization to treatment and control conditions that can lead to failure of between-subject experiments.…”

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The Impact of Information on Valuation in Experimental Auctions: A Comparison of Between and Within Subject Designs

Gustafson¹,

Meerza²

2023

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Experimental auctions are an important technique for measuring preferences for products, product attributes, and the impact of information. While these techniques are widely used, there is a paucity of evidence about an important design decision available to guide researchers: the choice of a between-subject vs. within-subject design. Within-subject designs offer clear value in terms of providing multiple observations per participant, which increases statistical power, but there are long-standing concerns about properties that could decrease the external validity of results generated in within-subject experiments. In this paper, we examine the impact of information on the economically motivated mislabeling of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) on consumer valuation of EVOOs produced in the country that has experienced mislabeling scandals, along with EVOOs from two unimplicated countries, in between-subject and within-subject designs. Our findings show that the significance and relative impacts on valuation are identical between the two conditions. In fact, the valuation of the implicated EVOO differs only by a few cents ($3.53 vs. $3.60) after participants received information about mislabeling. There were larger differences in valuation of the two unimplicated EVOOs post-information, though the relative preferences implied by the results and the statistical significance did not differ between the conditions. The impacts of information on the product “targeted” by the information are measured consistently in both between-subjects and within-subjects designs, while we observe more variation in off-target products, suggesting that the researchers who are interested in informational spillovers may need to be more careful in design choice than those who want to estimate the impact of information on the target products.

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“…A number of studies evaluate the welfare impacts of agricultural insurance at the household level2017;Janzen and Carter 2019;Hill et al 2019; Timu et al 2021 among others). Few of these studies recognize the heterogenous nature of the target population and only one(Timu et al 2021) evaluates the differential welfare impacts by the gender of the household head. The consensus of these heterogenous welfare assessments is that agricultural insurance has the potential of helping the poor and women-headed households in managing climate related production risks via increased agricultural productivity, incomes, food consumption and asset accumulation.On the other hand, insurance can have negative intended and unintended consequences.…”

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Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review

Timu

Kramer²

2023

Global Food Security

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Gendered Impacts of Index-Insurance on Food-Consumption: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Financial Inclusion Practice and the Status of Rural Women in Family: Based on a Field Survey in Gansu China

Financial Inclusion Practice and the Status of Rural Women in Family: Based on a Field Survey in Gansu China

The Impact of Information on Valuation in Experimental Auctions: A Comparison of Between and Within Subject Designs

Gender-inclusive, -responsive, and -transformative agricultural insurance: A literature review

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