time. We exploit a unique and thorough household membership enumeration in Burkina Faso to consider the analytical costs of … the typical static household roster. We document that households are extremely fluid with 10 percent of individuals … the analysis of issues that are intertwined with who is present in the household, such as the measurement of income …

Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send … their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against … this assumption. Using data I collected in Burkina Faso, I analyze a household's decision to adjust its size and …

human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …

household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed …

Nikkei community gatherings, ethnic grocery stores, sports clubs, and other locations where family members of migrants are …

. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household - level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan …

children who now live independently. After controlling for unobserved household characteristics, no positive effect of children …?s actual household income on parents? satisfaction can be found. However, children?s health and education have a positive …