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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Akresh, Richard | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-01-28T16:16:37Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-01-28T16:16:37Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2005 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20770 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | 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. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion paper series 1471 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J12 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | O15 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D10 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | child fostering | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | risk-coping | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | social networks | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | household structure | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Familie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Kinderbetreuung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Soziales Netzwerk | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Burkina Faso | | en_US |
| dc.title | | Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure : Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 479275637 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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