Migration and informal insurance: evidence from a randomized controlled trial and a structural model

DOI10.1093/RESTUD/RDAB021MaRDI QIDQ5064530zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Costas Meghir, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Corina Mommaerts, Melanie Morten

Publication date 16 March 2022

Published in Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.nber.org/papers/w26082.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

RCTmigrationBangladeshinformal insurance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actuarial mathematics (91G05) Spatial models in sociology (91D25) Utility theory (91B16)

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