Macroinsurance for Microenterprises: A Randomized Experiment in Post-Revolution Egypt 2011

Egypt, Arab Rep., 2011 - 2012

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Reference ID

EGY_2011_MMIE_v01_M_v01_A_PUF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.48529/drza-b779

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Matthew Groh, David McKenzie, Tara Vishwanath

Collection(s)

Impact Evaluation Surveys

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Sep 15, 2014

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Choosing business of high risk(A) or business of low risk(B) (b_402)

Data file: MacroinsuranceforMicroentrepreneurs

Overview

Valid: 2961

Invalid: 11

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 308

End: 308

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 8

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Suppose you have some money to do business, and you have the choice between two options:
Option A: A business that can give a lot of profit every month, but there is a chance you could lose money.
Option B: A business with less profit every month, but you can't lose your money.
Which option would you choose?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Option A "a lot of profit monthly, chance of losing money"	283	9.6%
2	Option B "less profit every month, cant lose money"	2649	89.5%
3	No preference	24	0.8%
8	Don't know	5	0.2%
Sysmiss		11

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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