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social_insure: Data from "Social Networks and the Decision to Insure"

Description

The social_insure data contains data from Jai, De Janvry, and Saoudlet (2015) on a two-round social network-based experiment on getting farmers to get insurance. See the paper for more details.

Usage

social_insure

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 1410 rows and 13 variables

address

Natural village

village

Administrative village

takeup_survey

Whether farmer ended up purchasing insurance. (1 = yes)

age

Household Characteristics - Age

agpop

Household Characteristics - Household Size

ricearea_2010

Area of Rice Production

disaster_prob

Perceived Probability of Disasters Next Year

male

Household Caracteristics: Gender of Household Head (1 = male)

default

"Default option" in experimental format assigned to. (1 = default is to buy, 0 = default is to not buy)

intensive

Whether or not was assigned to "intensive" experimental session (1 = yes)

risk_averse

Risk aversion measurement

literacy

1 = literate, 0 = illiterate

pre_takeup_rate

Takeup rate prior to experiment

Details

This data is used in the Instrumental Variables chapter of The Effect.

References

Huntington-Klein. 2021. The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. https://theeffectbook.net.