Tekalign Gutu Sakketa is a researcher at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Germany. He was a visiting fellow at Cornell University as … More
Tag: Insurance
A Business Evaluation of the Sales and Distribution Model for Index-Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya
This post was written by the 2018 Kenya Student Multidisciplinary Applied Research Team, comprised of Francine Barchett (International Agriculture and Rural … More
You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers
Khushbu Mishra is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University and is currently on … More
Characterizing Regional Suitability for Index Based Livestock Insurance
Chris Mills is a PhD student in Economics at Princeton University and a recent graduate in Economics and Computer Science at … More
The drivers of index-based livestock insurance demand in southern Ethiopia
Kazushi Takahashi is an associate professor at Sophia University, Japan, and a former visiting fellow at Cornell’s Dyson School. Pastoralists … More
Combining data for research that is more than the sum of its parts
Liz Bageant is a Research Support Specialist in Cornell’s Dyson School. Economists tend to undervalue qualitative data, yet in many … More
What are the environmental impacts of index-based livestock insurance?
Russell Toth is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney’s School of Economics and an alumnus of Cornell’s Economics Department. … More
Index-based insurance: Insurance or lottery tickets?
Nathan Jensen is a Postdoctoral Associate at Cornell’s Dyson School who is working with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). … More