Unconditional cash transfers, risk attitudes and modern inputs demand. Benjamin DavisЭкономика. Прикладная эконометрика. Научные статьи
- Название
- Unconditional cash transfers, risk attitudes and modern inputs demand
- Автор:
- Benjamin Davis
- Серия:
- Прикладная эконометрика. Научные статьи
- Жанр:
- Экономика
- Год выпуска:
- 2019
- isbn:
- Аннотация:
- We estimate the effects of cash transfers on modern inputs demand, while isolating the role of output risk and risk preferences in channeling these effects. We use data from an RCT collected for the evaluation of Zambia’s Social Cash Transfer. We employ a moments-based method to estimate farmers’ risk attitudes from revealed preferences through production decisions and the impact of cash transfers on modern input demand. We find that the program increases demand for risk-increasing modern inputs but this does not happen as a result of a transfer-induced reduction in farmers’ risk aversion.