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 … insured, having accounted for public insurance programs. We apply our framework to extended family networks in the United … decomposing income shocks into group aggregate and idiosyncratic components, allowing us to measure the extent to which each is …

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 …

panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is …This paper studies the impact of permanent and transitory shocks to income on parental investments in children. We use …

10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human … panel data on family income, and an index of investments in children in time and goods, from the Children of the National … partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance …

, the age profile of the insurance coefficient is sharply increasing, whereas BPP find no clear age slope in their estimate … estimator of the true insurance coefficient has, in general, a downward bias that grows as borrowing limits become tighter …