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dc.contributor.author | Akresh, Richard | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-01-28T16:16:37Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-01-28T16:16:37Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20770 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Researchers 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.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonn | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aIZA Discussion Papers |x1471 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J12 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O15 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D10 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | child fostering | en |
dc.subject.keyword | risk-coping | en |
dc.subject.keyword | social networks | en |
dc.subject.keyword | household structure | en |
dc.subject.stw | Familie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Kinderbetreuung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Soziales Netzwerk | en |
dc.subject.stw | Burkina Faso | en |
dc.title | Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure : Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 479275637 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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