Project Papers:
Journal Articles
- Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, and Michael R. Carter “Designing Index-Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya” Journal of Risk Insurance 2012 ; Posted on 2 MAY 2012 link to abstract
- Travis J. Lybbert, Francisco B. Galarza, John McPeak, Christopher Barrett, Steve R. Boucher, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, Aziz Fadlaoui, Andrew Mude, “ Dynamics of Field Experiments in Developing Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya and Peru”, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39/2 pp.1–17. April 2010 link
- John McPeak, Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew G. Mude, “Explaining Index Based Livestock Insurance to Pastoralists,” Agricultural Finance Review, Vol. 70 Iss: 3, pp.333 – 352. link to abstract. pdf of working paper version.
Working Papers
- Sommarat Chantarat. Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett and Calum G. Turvey, “The Performance of Index Based Livestock Insurance: Ex Ante Assessment in the Presence of A Poverty Trap.” November 2009. PDF
- Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew G. Mude and Christopher B. Barrett, “Willingness to Pay for Index Based Livestock Insurance: Results From A Field Experiment In Northern Kenya,” September 2009. PDF
- Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett and Michael R. Carter, “Designing Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Asset Risk in Northern Kenya,” January 2011. PDF
- Andrew G. Mude, Sommarat Chantarat, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Munenobu Ikegami and John G. McPeak, “Insuring Against Drought-Related Livestock Mortality: Piloting Index Based Livestock Insurance in Northern Kenya,” May 2010. PDF
- Andrew G. Mude, Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, Munenobu Ikegami and John G. McPeak, “Project Summary: Index Based Livestock Insurance For Northern Kenya’s Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: The Marsabit Pilot,” January 2010. PDF
Ph.D. Dissertation
- Sommarat Chantarat, “Pro-Poor Risk Management: Essays on the Economics of Index Based Risk Transfer Products,” Economics, Cornell University, August 2009. pdf
Briefs
- C. B. Barrett, Carter M. R., Chantarat S., McPeak J. and Mude A. G. (2008) “Altering poverty dynamics with index insurance: northern Kenya’s HSNP.” PDF
- M. R. Carter, Barrett C. B., Boucher C., Chantarat S., Galarza S., McPeak J., Mude A. G. and Trivelli C. (2008) “Insuring the never before insured: Explaining index insurance through financial education games.” PDF
- M. R. Carter, “Intelligent design of index insurance for smallholder farmers and pastoralists” IFPRI Focus 17 Brief 6, December 2009. PDF
- Chantarat S, Barrett C.B and Mude A.G, (2010) “Developing Index Based Livestock Insurance for Managing Livestock Asset Risks in Northern Kenya” Leap Focus 7, March 2010. PDF
- Carter M., Long E., Mude A. ” The IBLI color legend: Translating Index Based mortality predictions into meaningful signals”. I4 brief no. 2011- 02, July 2011. PDF
- Carter M. and Jansen S. “Coping with Drought: Assessing the Impacts of Livestock Insurance in Kenya”. I4 Brief no. 2012 – 01, March 2012. PDF
Related Papers:
Journal Articles
- Barnett B. J., Barrett C. B. and Skees J. R. (2008) “Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products,” World Development 36 (10), 1766-1785. Link
- Barrett C. B., Chabari F., Bailey D., Little D. P. and Coppock L. (2003) “Livestock pricing in Northern Kenyan Rangelands,” Journal of African Economies 12 (2), 127-55. Link
- Barrett C. B. and Luseno W. K. (2004) “Decomposing producer price risk: a policy analysis tool with an application to northern Kenyan livestock markets,” Food policy 29, 393-405. Link
- Barrett C., Marenya P. P., McPeak J., Minten B., Murithi F., Kosura W.O., Place F., Randrianarisoa J. C., Rasambainarivo J. and Wangila J. (2006) “Welfare Dynamics in Rural Kenya and Madagascar,” Journal of Development Studies 42 (2), 248–277. Link
- Chantarat S., Barrett C. B., Mude A. G. and Turvey C. G. (2007) “Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve Drought Response for Famine Prevention.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89 (5) 1262-1268. Link
- Chantarat S., Turvey C. G., Mude A. G. and Barrett C. B. (2008) “Improving Humanitarian Response to Slow-Onset Disasters using Famine Indexed Weather Derivatives,” Agricultural Finance Review 68(1). pdf
- Doss C., McPeak J. and Barrett B. (2008) “Interpersonal, Intertemporal and Spatial Variation in Risk Perceptions: Evidence from East Africa,” World Development 36 (8), 1453-1468. Link
- Little P.D., McPeak J., Barrett C. B. and Kristjanson P. (2008) “Challenging Orthodoxies: Understanding Poverty in Pastoral Areas of East Africa,” Development and Change 39 (4), 587-611. Link
- Lybbert T. J., Barrett C. B., Desta S. and Coppock D. L. (2003) “Stochastic health dynamics and risk management among a poor population,” Economic Journal 114, 750-777. Link
Book Chapters
- Barrett, B. C. and McPeak J.G. (2006) “Poverty Traps and Safety Nets,” de Janvry A. and Kanbur R. ed. Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke, Springer, Ch. 8. Link
Working Papers
- Barrett C. B., Barnett B. J., Carter M . R., Chantarat S., Hansen J. W., Mude A. G., Osgood D. E., Skees J. R., Turvey C. G. and Ward M. N. (2007) “Poverty traps and climate risk: Limitations and opportunities of index-based risk financing.” PDF
- Mahul O. and Skees J. (2007) “Managing agricultural risk at the country level: the case of index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia.” PDF
- Skees J. R. and Collier B. (2008) “The Potential of Weather Index Insurance for Spurring a Green Revolution in Africa.” PDF
- Hellmuth M.E., Osgood D.E., Hess U., Moorhead A. and Bhojwani H. (eds) 2009. Index insurance and climate risk: Prospects for development and disaster management. Climate and Society No. 2. International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University, New York, USA. PDF
