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Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups: evidence from a field experiment in Ethiopia (Working Paper)

Working paper Firms and Farms

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Stefan Dercon

Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, University of Oxford

Ruth Vargas Hill

Research Fellow, IFPRI

Ingo Outes-Leon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Daniel Clarke

Research Officer, University of Oxford

Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

Senior Advisor, International Growth Centre
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