Background Risk of Food Insecurity and Insurance Behaviour: Evidence from the West Bank
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- Cavatorta, Elisa & Pieroni, Luca, 2013. "Background risk of food insecurity and insurance behaviour: Evidence from the West Bank," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 278-290.
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Keywords
Background Risk; Food Insecurity; Health Insurance; Bivariate Probit;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2013-02-16 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2013-02-16 (Insurance Economics)
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