Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand

Jing Cai, Alain de Janvry, Elisabeth Sadoulet

NBER Working Paper No. 22702
Issued in September 2016

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We thank Michael Anderson, Frederico Finan, David Levine, Ethan Ligon, Jeremy Magruder, Craig McIntosh, Edward Miguel, and Simone Schaner for their helpful comments and suggestions. We also thank participants at numerous seminars and conferences. We are grateful to the officials of the People’s Insurance Company of China for their close collaboration at all stages of the project. Financial support from the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) and the ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility is greatly appreciated. All errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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