In sickness and in health: risk sharing within households in rural Ethiopia.
Much of the literature on consumption smoothing and on risk sharing has focused on the ability of the household as a unit to protect its consumption. Little is known about the ability of individual members of the household to keep consumption smooth over time or relative to other members of the hou...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 688 - 728 |
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University of Chicago Press
August 2000
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