Flexibility of Household Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso

Autor/in	Akresh, Richard
Titel	Flexibility of Household Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Quelle	In: Journal of Human Resources, 44 (2009) 4, S.976-997 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-166X
Schlagwörter	Family Income; Parents; Foreign Countries; Gender Issues; Family Structure; Foster Care; Access to Education; Educational Attainment; Marital Status; Occupations; Rural Areas; Developing Nations; Motivation; Coping; Burkina Faso + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familieneinkommen; Eltern; Ausland; Geschlechterfrage; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Pflegehilfe; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Familienstand; Beruf; Berufsumfeld; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch); Bewältigung
Abstract	Using data I collected in Africa, this paper examines a household's decision to adjust its size through child fostering, an institution where biological parents temporarily send children to live with other families. Households experiencing negative idiosyncratic income shocks, child gender imbalances, located further from primary schools, or with more "good" quality network members (fewer subsistence farmers and unmarried individuals and more educated members) are significantly more likely to send a child. Results reject an overall symmetric fostering model across senders and receivers, but evidence of symmetry is found when the test is restricted to exogenous income shocks and gender imbalances. (Contains 5 tables and 22 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10