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Can informal redistribution withstand formal safety nets? Insights from urban-rural transfers in Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Reitmann, Ann-Kristin; … - 2020
formal social protection mechanisms in a context where informal redistribution still plays an important role. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292737
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The effect of social entitlement programs on private transfers : new evidence of crowding out
Gerardi, Kristopher; Tsai, Yuping - 2010
This paper exploits a natural policy experiment to directly identify the crowding out effects of public transfers on the incidence and level of private transfers. The introduction of a large social security program in Taiwan is used to estimate the effect of an exogenous increase in government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664596
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Motives for household private transfers in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2004
behavior and the implication on income redistribution policy that private transfer might have. Empirical studies, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610921
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Identity and private transfers of time and money
Nicińska, Anna - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 191-218
We introduce the perspective of identity economics to a formal model of rational choice of private transfers to examine the impact of geographical proximity on optimal time and money transfers within and outside of families. We argue that identities affect private transfers through the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013502196
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Chapter 58 Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions
Cox, Donald; Fafchamps, Marcel - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3711-3784). 2007
economic well-being, and this private assistance and exchange can interact with public income redistribution. Yet despite rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024662
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Motives for Household Private Transfers in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2004
behavior and the implication on income redistribution policy that private transfer might have. Empirical studies, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369205
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Chapter 13 Microeconomic models of family transfers
Laferrère, Anne; Wolff, François-Charles - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 889-969). 2006
mechanisms. Firstly, in the so-called pure altruism model, the parent's utility is augmented by the utility of his child. This … transfer. In a second model, altruism is impure as the parents want the child to behave in a certain way: exchange and …. Tests usually conclude that the income pooling predicted by pure altruism is not observed, but family transfers are also far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023665
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Transfer behaviour in migrant sending communities : conference paper
Chakraborty, Tanika; Mirkasimov, Bakhrom; Steiner, Susan - 2013
important as mechanisms of risk sharing and income redistribution. We argue that migration and remittances have the potential to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344638
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Motives for Household Private Transfers in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2004
behavior and the implication on income redistribution policy that private transfer might have. Empirical studies, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069024
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Inter-household transfers : An empirical investigation of the income-transfer relationship with novel data from Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Hartwig, Renate; Reitmann, Ann-Kristin; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 144 (2021), pp. 1-14
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