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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure : Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2021
their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318820
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Risk, network quality, and family structure : child fostering decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2005
their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610964
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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2005
their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369209
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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure : Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2005
their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262195
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Will Urban Migrants Formally Insure Their Rural Relatives? Family Networks and Rainfall Index Insurance in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2018
We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918576
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Risk, network quality, and family structure : child fostering decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard (contributor) - 2005
their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002576889
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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants : A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2021
Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324909
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Family networks and orphan caretaking in Tanzania
Ksoll, Christopher (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003564582
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Chapter 58 Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions
Cox, Donald; Fafchamps, Marcel - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3711-3784). 2007
takes an evolutionary approach to the family. We show that this literature provides valuable guidance for modeling the … effects of age, sex and relatedness in the interactions among extended family members. The evolutionary literature has much to … offer economists interested in family behavior by proposing novel interpretations of existing findings and pointing out new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024662
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Counter-compensatory inter-vivos transfers and parental altruism : compatibility or orthogonality?
Stark, Oded; Zhang, Junsen - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001583694