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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor | School of Accounting and Finance | en_US |
| dc.creator | Liu, Y | en_US |
| dc.creator | Zhang, Y | en_US |
| dc.creator | Chen, X | en_US |
| dc.creator | Yang, Y | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-15T07:10:53Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-15T07:10:53Z | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0165-1765 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/94384 | - |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | en_US |
| dc.rights | © 2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.rights | The following publication Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Chen, X., & Yang, Y. (2021). Superstition and farmers’ life insurance spending. Economics Letters, 206, 109975 is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109975 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Insurance | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rural household | en_US |
| dc.subject | Superstition | en_US |
| dc.title | Superstition and farmers’ life insurance spending | en_US |
| dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.volume | 206 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109975 | en_US |
| dcterms.abstract | Superstition is prevalent in rural areas, yet very few studies examine whether it affects rural households’ economic decisions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of “zodiac year” superstition on Chinese rural households’ life insurance spending. We find a statistically significant 18.5% increase in life insurance expenditure during the head's zodiac year. Such a boost is only significant in the zodiac year and does not exist in non-zodiac years. Our study provides novel evidence that rural households would hedge “bad luck” by self-insurance when bearing superstitious beliefs. | en_US |
| dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Economics letters, Sept. 2021, v. 206, 109975 | en_US |
| dcterms.isPartOf | Economics letters | en_US |
| dcterms.issued | 2021-09 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85109113009 | - |
| dc.identifier.artn | 109975 | en_US |
| dc.description.validate | 202208 bcfc | en_US |
| dc.description.oa | Accepted Manuscript | en_US |
| dc.identifier.FolderNumber | AF-0007 | - |
| dc.description.fundingSource | Self-funded | en_US |
| dc.description.pubStatus | Published | en_US |
| dc.identifier.OPUS | 53396514 | - |
| Appears in Collections: | Journal/Magazine Article | |
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