This paper attempts to understand why children often delay school enrolment despite the prediction of human capital theory that schooling should begin at the earliest possible age. We explore different explanations of delayed enrolment but focus particularly on the effect of child health on the...

This paper inscribes itself in the logic of debates on the policies of poverty reduction which have been taking place for a decade now. The author evaluates the influence of social religious capital on the poverty of households in Cameroon and particularly in Yaounde. First he identifies the...

In this paper, we extend the framework of the motives for familial solidarities to three generations. By focusing on upward transfers, we examine the demonstration effect hypothesis where individuals make transfers to their parents in order to be helped in return by their children. We show the...

Three theoretical hypotheses can explain the motives behind familial transfers given to the elders : altruism, exchange, and the demonstration effect theory where adults have to set an example by helping their elders if they want to be helped in turn by their children. This paper focuses on a...

In this paper, we examine how children care for their elderly parents and the motives of these family transfers, accounting for interactions between parents and their different children. We study a theoretical model of intergenerational transfers based on altruism, where siblings care for their...

English Since its introduction in 2011, crop insurance in the Sahel (CSI), which appeared as a practical innovation in West Africa, has been struggling to spread in Burkina Faso. As an index-based insurance scheme, it is expected to secure financing for agriculture and preserve farmers' incomes...

The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of household access to credit from tontines in Cameroon. We use a univariate probit model on a sample of households from the fourth Cameroonian household survey (ECAM IV) collected by the National Institute of Statistics in 2014. Thus,...

The objective of this paper is to identify the determinants of household access to credit from tontines in Cameroon. We use a univariate probit model on a sample of households from the fourth Cameroonian household survey (ECAM IV) collected by the National Institute of Statistics in 2014. Thus,...

In this article, we wish to understand if, in a family company potentially torn by the conflict of the succession, ethical crucial concern as the aversion in the disparity between heirs allow to reduce in a significant way the temptation of the successors to defend their interests by provoking...