Weather Index-Based Livestock Insurance
Words: 901 Pages: 3 5592This paper focuses on estimating the causal effects of index-based livestock insurance on poultry production among pastoralists in the Borena zone of southern Ethiopia, using four rounds of household level panel data. Exploiting randomization of extension treatments to purchase the index-based livestock insurance, and using a fixed effect model and standard Tobit model analysis, our result shows that households who purchased an index-based livestock insurance contract in at least one sales period are more likely to keep a greater number […]
