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The Facility, in partnership with the EUDN, has conducted three rounds of research grants --in January 2009, November 2009, and September 2010 -- to help address some key questions in microinsurance. More than 200 proposals for studies to be conducted in more than 30 developing countries were received. Since we were only able to award grants to a small percentage of those who applied, the competition was fierce, leaving several interesting proposals unfunded. Those selected were focused research projects that responded to specific questions of the Facility's learning agenda.

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Research Grantees

Country of Study Title of Research Authors
India Understanding commissions based advice: Evidence from Indian life insurance agents
Santosh Anagol
Justin Oliver
Shawn Cole
India Evaluating health-seeking behavior, utilization of care, and health risk: Evidence from a community based insurance model in India Ketki Sheth
Tajikistan Precautionary Savings to Manage Common Health Risks among the Poor Jessica Pickett
Niger Weather Index Insurance Design and Agricultural Intensification in South West Niger
Mathieu Dubreuil
Antoine Leblois
Seydou Traore
Phillipe Quiron
Cameroon Incdence de l'assurance maladie de type mutualiste sur la demande de soins de sante des menages au cameroun Jean Colbert Awomo Ndongo
India Complementarities between Microinsurance products and Inequality Linkages: Field Experiments in Rural India
Sarthak Gaurav
Ashish Singh
Thiagu Ranganathan
Viet Nam Client-value of Microinsurance Products: Evidence from the Mutual Assistance Fund (DAF) in Vietnam Hong Son Nghiem
Ghana Risk-Modelling Crop Loss in Ghana James R. Jones
India Integrating savings and insurance
Jeremy Tobacman
Daniel Stein
India Remote sensing in agriculture insurance
Mangesh Patankar
Gargi Upadhyay
Kunal Soni
Ethiopia Experimenting with Group Crop Insurance Design
Daniel Clarke
Rocco Macchiavello
Bangladesh Does micro-credit increase bonded child labour in absence of microinsurance? Sayan Chakrabarty
Ethiopia Subjective probabilities and the demand for insurance
Zaki Wahhaj
Ingo Outes-Leon
Cote D'Ivoire Risk preferences and demand for insurance under price uncertainty: an experimental approach for the coffee and cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire
Kouame Euphrasie
Aka Narcisse Komenan
China Impacts of trust on agricultural insurance take-up
Alain de Janvry
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Jing Cai
Ghana Examining underinvestment in agriculture: Measuring returns to capital and insurance in Ghana
Robert Darko Osei
Isaac Osei-Akoto
Dean Karlan
Christopher Udry
India Demand impacts of introducing complex bundled microfinance loans in India
Esther Duflo
Abhijit Banerjee
Richard Hornbeck
Nicaragua Microinsurance utilization in Nicaragua: the demand for and effects of insurance enrolment among informal sector workers
Rebecca L. Thornton
Anne Fitzpatrick
Barbara Magnoni
Senegal Barriers to access health care and the role of subsidized health insurance for farmers
Aurélia Lépine
Alexis Le Nestour
Samba Mbaye
Cameroon Economic value of willingness to pay for a community-based prepayment scheme in rural Cameroon
Hermann P. P. Donfouet
Ephias M. Makaudze
Senegal Trust, literacy and demand for microinsurance in Senegal
Philippe LeMay-Boucher
Olivier Dagnelie
Michel Tenikue
Mohamadou Sall
Burkina Faso Integrating innovative health care provider payment systems into the expansion of community-based health insurance in Burkina Faso
Paul Jacob Robyn
Ali Sié
Germain Savadogo
Aurèlia Souares
Till Barnighausen
Rainer Sauerborn
Viet Nam Does microinsurance help the poor? Evidence from the targeted health insurance program in Vietnam 2004 – 2008
Tra Pham
Thong Pham
Cameroon Targeting the poor by community-based health insurance schemes in Cameroon
Fondo Sikod
Ibrahim Abba
Tanzania, United Republic of Joint liability and the demand for health insurance in micro-credit groups
Judith Lammers
Wendy Janssens
Lucas Albani Katera
India Financial literacy for weather insurance
Shawn Cole
Sarthak Gaurav
Bangladesh Impact of educational intervention on knowledge, attitude towards, and willingness to pay for micro health insurance among low-income informal workers in urban Bangladesh
Jahangir Khan
Ziaul Islam
Rukhsana Gazi
Mohammad Khurshid Alam
Tracey Lynn Perez Koehlmoos

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The Facility was launched in 2008 with generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to learn and promote how to extend better insurance to the working poor. 

Additional funding has gratefully been received from several donors, including the Z Zurich Foundation and AusAID.

 

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