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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (1) Autor Akter, Sonia (1) Aziz, Salina (1) Brouwer, Roy (1) Chowdhury, Saria (1) Palavra-chave Bangladesh (1) Catastrophe (1) Consumer/Household Economics (1) Environmental Economics and Policy (1) Insurance (1) International Development (1) Natural disasters (1) Participation (1) Q54 (1) Risk (1) Risk and Uncertainty (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (1) Ano 2008 (1) País United States (1) Idioma Inglês (1)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Determinants of Participation in a Catastrophe Insurance Programme: Empirical Evidence from a Developing Country AgEcon Akter, Sonia; Brouwer, Roy; Chowdhury, Saria; Aziz, Salina. The paper presents empirical evidence of the determinants of catastrophe insurance participation in one of the poorest and most disaster prone countries in the world. In a large-scale household survey carried out in 2006 we ask 3,000 residents in six different districts in Bangladesh facing various environmental risk exposure levels about their willingness to participate in a catastrophe insurance programme. Combining factors put forward in risk theory and economics, we estimate a model of insurance participation. We show that the household decision to participate in the insurance programme differs depending on both exogenous and endogenous risk exposure levels. As predicted by micro-economic theory, ability to pay, measured in terms of household income... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Natural disasters; Catastrophe; Insurance; Participation; Risk; Bangladesh; Consumer/Household Economics; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Q54. Ano: 2008 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/5984 Registros recuperados: 1 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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