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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
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| Autores: |
Akresh, Richard
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| Data: |
2006-01-27
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Child fostering
Risk-coping
Social networks
Household structure
Consumer/Household Economics
O15
J12
D10
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| Resumo: |
Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub- Saharan Africa and provides evidence against this assumption. Using data I collected in Burkina Faso, I analyze a household's decision to adjust its size and composition through fostering. A household fosters children as a risk-coping mechanism in response to exogenous income shocks, if it has a good social network, and to satisfy labor demands within the household. Increases of one standard deviation in a household's agricultural shock, percentage of good network members, or number of older girls increase the probability of sending a child above the current fostering level by 29.1, 30.0, and 34.5 percent, respectively. Testing whether factors influencing the sending decision have an opposite impact on the receiving decision leads to a rejection of the symmetric, theoretical model for child fostering.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
19657
http://purl.umn.edu/28454
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
Yale University>Economic Growth Center>Center Discussion Papers
Center Discussion Paper No. 902
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| Formato: |
44
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