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Index Insurance to Manage Weather Risk: A Long-Run Experiment

Marketing weather-indexed agricultural insurance to smallholder farmers in rural Gujarat, India (Policy Brief)

Policy brief 1 Sep 2013 Firms and Farms

Authors

Shawn Cole

Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University

Maulik Jagnani

Assistant Professor, Fletcher School and Department of Economics, Tufts University

Lisa Nestor

MBA student, University of California - Los Angeles

Jeremy Tobacman

Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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