We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such … decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each …

We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such … decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each …

We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such … decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each …

We investigate partial insurance and group risk sharing in extended family networks. Our approach is based on … insurable within extended family networks. However, we find little evidence that the extended family provides insurance for such … decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each …

What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks …, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors ….We let individuals with different education levels have a separate income process; and within each skill group, we allow for …

This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …

One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However … unobserved parental ability. In the end, family income still has a significant effect, which must therefore be causative. It … implies that high-ability children in low-income families face binding credit constraints that society may wish to relieve. …

particular, this means that we do not know how intergenerational mobility is correlated with growth, income or the degree of … the income of an individual, the more important is her background in determining her outcomes; and thus, the less mobility … there is. The reason is that surnames provide information about family relationships because the distribution of surnames is …