Giacomo de Giorgi, University of Geneva
Seminar
Date: Tuesday 26 September 2023
Time: 13.00 – 14.30
Location: IIES Seminar Room/Hybrid
Farmers to Entrepreneurs
We study rural households' coping strategies to uninsured shocks in low-income countries and how these strategies relate to misallocation and structural transformation. Farmers increase their labor supply to non-farming enterprises (NFEs) and are more likely to migrate temporarily when they experience low rainfall. Since NFEs can work as an ex-post income smoothing mechanism, uninsured shocks can give rise to reluctant entrepreneurs. Persistence of reluctant entrepreneurship contributes to the skill composition across sectors and the overall structure of the village economy.
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https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/64587147371
Meeting ID: 645 8714 7371
Last updated: September 26, 2023
Source: Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)