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Article

Who Is Afraid of Biotic Threats? An Econometric Analysis of Veneto Wine Grape Farmers’ Propensity to Insure

by
Laura Onofri
*,
Samuele Trestini
and
Vasco Boatto
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padua, Via dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD), Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Agriculture 2020, 10(8), 336; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10080336
Submission received: 26 June 2020 / Revised: 31 July 2020 / Accepted: 1 August 2020 / Published: 6 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Viticulture)
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Abstract

This paper aims at understanding what affects farmers’ choices to buy insurance against biotic threats. Using a survey-based dataset with 1187 observations on Veneto wine grapes farms, we regress a probit model with endogenous variables with a maximum likelihood (ML) routine. The results corroborate the microeconomic theory according to which risk-adverse individuals are more propense to insure. In our framework, the farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics are treated as endogenous variables, which exist/are predetermined before the choice to insure (or not). This paper discusses the results in a policy perspective.
Keywords: risk aversion/propensity; probit with endogenous regressors; maximum likelihood estimation routing; insurance market; missing markets risk aversion/propensity; probit with endogenous regressors; maximum likelihood estimation routing; insurance market; missing markets

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Onofri, L.; Trestini, S.; Boatto, V. Who Is Afraid of Biotic Threats? An Econometric Analysis of Veneto Wine Grape Farmers’ Propensity to Insure. Agriculture 2020, 10, 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10080336

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Onofri L, Trestini S, Boatto V. Who Is Afraid of Biotic Threats? An Econometric Analysis of Veneto Wine Grape Farmers’ Propensity to Insure. Agriculture. 2020; 10(8):336. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10080336

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Onofri, Laura, Samuele Trestini, and Vasco Boatto. 2020. "Who Is Afraid of Biotic Threats? An Econometric Analysis of Veneto Wine Grape Farmers’ Propensity to Insure" Agriculture 10, no. 8: 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10080336

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Onofri, L., Trestini, S., & Boatto, V. (2020). Who Is Afraid of Biotic Threats? An Econometric Analysis of Veneto Wine Grape Farmers’ Propensity to Insure. Agriculture, 10(8), 336. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture10080336

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