Thesis--University of Wisconsin. / Vita. Microfilm copy of typescript. Ann Arbor : University Microfilms, 1968. -- 1 reel : 35 mm. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-269).

The first chapter of this thesis provides an introduction to the issues that will be covered in the remaining chapters, reviews the relevant literature on risk and insurance, and provides an overview of the data on rural Thailand that I will be using. The second chapter investigates the extent to which households at different parts of the income distribution among these Thai households differ in the extent to which their income streams are affected by droughts. I find that the income streams of relatively rich households are better insured than their poorer counterparts. I am able to empirically link the better insurance possibilities enjoyed by richer households to observable characteristics such as the education level of the head of household, the type of contract the head is likely to be employed in, and the relative youth of the heads of richer households. The third chapter demonstrates that income inequality among these households is declining, both over the duration of the panel, and over the lifecycles of the heads of these households. I show that this decline cannot be explained by standard lifecycle considerations. Rather, I find that remittances from the adult children of the heads of household account for the entirety of the reduction in income inequality over the lifecycles of the heads of household. Chapter 4 models the probability with which a household receives remittances (the ‘extensive margin') and the share of remittances in household income (the ‘intensive margin') as functions of observable household characteristics. Using these models, I construct counterfactual distributions of income which permit me to identify the extent to which the extensive and intensive margins of remittance receipts account for the reduction in inequality that these models are able to explain. Chapter 5 concludes.

Thesis (M.A.)--Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1980. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-137).

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1978. / Bibliography: leaves 170-172. / Microfiche. / xi, 172 leaves ill

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-12, Section: A, page: 4522. Adviser: W. Scott Thompson. Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (M.A.)--Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1980. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-137). Also issued in print.

Thesis (Master of Arts)--Mahāwitthayālai Sīnakharintharawirōt Prasānmit, 1980. / Indices : p. 168-191. In Thai. Abstract in English. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167).

Thesis (M.A.)--Chulālongkō̜n Mahāwitthayālai, 1981. / Vita. Typescript. Appendices: p. 332-345. Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-331).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-121).

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