from intro: "In the following sections, the paper reconsiders the crop insurance program and the problems of agricultural insurance more generally. It draws on the large literature that has emerged on crop insurance, particularly over the past ten years. Economic research on crop insurance can be traced at least as far back as Valgren's 1922 study of private insurance markets. However, the amount of research on crop insurance has increased dramatically over the past ten years, paralleling the growth in the program itself. For example, over 1981-93, ten journal articles were published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Since 1994, fifty-one articles have been published, including over twenty in 2003 and 2004 alone."
