{"id":1115,"date":"2011-03-05T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2011-03-05T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:18:55","slug":"dean-karlan-on-micro-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/1115","title":{"rendered":"Dean Karlan on Micro-Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations for Poverty Action founder and Yale University professor Dean Karlan discusses how to increase the demand for micro-insurance products in developing countries:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/44RGhYcQWDU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>At <a title=\"Index Insurance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=44RGhYcQWDU&amp;feature=player_detailpage#t=53s\" target=\"_blank\">0:53<\/a>, Dean discusses index insurance, which is what my coauthors and I are <a title=\"Group Insurance: The Case of Cotton Producers in Mali\" href=\"http:\/\/i4.ucdavis.edu\/projects\/seed%20grants\/Bellemare-Mali\/\" target=\"_blank\">currently studying in Mali<\/a> for groups of cotton producers. In our case, however, the index is not based on weather or satellite data but on productivity at a level far enough above the group level so as to eliminate moral hazard.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: <a title=\"@poverty_action\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/poverty_action\" target=\"_blank\">IPA<\/a>, via Twitter.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations for Poverty Action founder and Yale University professor Dean Karlan discusses how to increase the demand for micro-insurance products in developing countries:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,49,42,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-impact-evaluation","category-insurance","category-micro","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-hZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}