Household Structure and Short-Run Economic Change in Nicaragua

Autor/inn/en	Winters, Paul; Stecklov, Guy; Todd, Jessica
Titel	Household Structure and Short-Run Economic Change in Nicaragua
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 71 (2009) 3, S.708-726 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00628.x
Schlagwörter	Program Descriptions; Poverty; Heads of Households; Family (Sociological Unit); Young Adults; Economic Change; Foreign Countries; Financial Support; Family Relationship; Nicaragua + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Familie; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Ökonomischer Wandel; Ausland; Finanzielle Förderung
Abstract	During the economic crises Nicaragua suffered between 2000 and 2002, a conditional cash transfer program targeting poor households began operating. Using panel data on 1,397 households from the program's experimentally designed evaluation, we examined the impact of the program on household structure. Our findings suggest that the program enabled households to avoid reagglomeration during the economic crises, with households in control communities growing more than treated households. These changes were driven primarily by shifts in residence of relatively young men and women with close kinship ties to the household head. In contrast, households that received transfers continued to send off young adult members, suggesting that the program provided resources to overcome the short-term economic pressures on household structure. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10