This study examines farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance (WII) in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar, using discrete choice experiments. It employs data taken from a survey of 317 rice farmers in the district of Labutta in the Ayeyarwady Region, which was conducted in March 2019. After being informed about WII and the trigger conditions, farmers were asked to answer discrete choice questions on WII packages. The hypothetical WII packages consisted of three attributes: the types of disaster that the insurance covers, the insurance coverage rate, and the annual insurance premium rate. A random parameter logit model analysis of the responses reveals that farmers prefer the WII packages covering cyclones, floods, and droughts to that for salt damage. The probabilities of selecting 64 hypothetical WII packages calculated from the estimates indicate that more than 50% of farmers can be expected to purchase seven WII packages for cyclones, floods, and droughts.

本研究使用离散选择实验研究了缅甸伊洛瓦底三角洲农民对天气指数保险的偏好。它使用的数据来自于Ayeyarwady地区Labutta地区的317名稻农的调查，该调查于2019年3月进行。在了解WII和触发条件后，要求农民回答有关WII套餐的离散选择问题。假设的WII软件包包括三个属性：保险所涵盖的灾难类型，保险覆盖率和年度保险费率。对响应的随机参数对数模型分析表明，与盐分破坏相比，农民更喜欢WII软件包，包括飓风，洪水和干旱。