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dc.contributor.authorAkresh, Richarden
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:16:37Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:16:37Z-
dc.date.issued2005-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20770-
dc.description.abstractResearchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, theinstitution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, iswidespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against this assumption. Usingdata I collected in Burkina Faso, I analyze a household's decision to adjust its size andcomposition through fostering. A household fosters children as a risk-coping mechanism inresponse to exogenous income shocks, if it has a good social network, and to satisfy labordemands within the household. Increases of one standard deviation in a household'sagricultural shock, percentage of good network members, or number of older girls increasethe probability of sending a child above the current fostering level by 29.1, 30.0, and 34.5percent, respectively. Testing whether factors influencing the sending decision have anopposite impact on the receiving decision leads to a rejection of the symmetric, theoreticalmodel for child fostering.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1471en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.jelO15en
dc.subject.jelD10en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordchild fosteringen
dc.subject.keywordrisk-copingen
dc.subject.keywordsocial networksen
dc.subject.keywordhousehold structureen
dc.subject.stwFamilieen
dc.subject.stwKinderbetreuungen
dc.subject.stwSoziales Netzwerken
dc.subject.stwBurkina Fasoen
dc.titleRisk, Network Quality, and Family Structure : Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn479275637en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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