Demand for insurance and within-kin-group marriages: Evidence from a West-African country

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hotte, Rozenn; Marazyan, Karine
• 署名单位: CY Cergy Paris Universite; Universite Bourgogne Europe
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102489
• 发表日期: 2020
• 关键词: Marriages; kinship; Risk-coping; Sub-Saharan Africa

摘要

We ask whether parents have incentives to marry their children to a member of the kin group in order to better insure against adverse idiosyncratic income shocks. Exploiting original panel data from a household survey collected in Senegal in 2006/2007 and 2011/2012, we find that daughters' within-kin-group marriage helps their parents' household to better smooth food consumption when a parent has fallen ill. This better smoothing is notably driven by the fact that households having married a daughter within the kin group receive relatively more transfers. Our results indicate that parents' demand for insurance can explain part of their demand for marrying within the kin group their daughter and extend the literature on inter-linkages between marriage decisions and demand for insurance.