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Household Structures and Savings: Evidence from Household Surveys
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Laiglesia, Juan Ramón De Morrisson, Christian |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | This paper examines the relationship between household structures, the institutions that shape them and physical and human capital accumulation using household and individual data from China, Indonesia, Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana. Household structures differ greatly across countries and are very diverse within countries. In the two African countries studied a large share of the population live in extended households and/or polygamous ones. Such household structures are the exception or even absent in the Asian cases, where nuclear monogamous households prevail. This paper finds that polygamy is negatively related to capital accumulation. Wealth per capita is significantly lower in polygamous households even after controlling for income, age and literacy of the household head. A first analysis of the possible channels suggests that the larger size of polygamous households plays an important role. A similar result is found for education: enrolment rates are never higher but frequently lower in these households. The diversity across countries demonstrates that polygamy has very different meanings across societies... Ce document examine les relations entre les structures des menages, les institutions qui les faconnent et l’accumulation de capital physique et humain, en utilisant des donnees par menage et par individu en provenance de Chine, d’Indonesie, de Cote-d’Ivoire et du Ghana. Les structures des menages varient beaucoup d’un pays a l’autre et sont tres diverses a l’interieur meme des pays. Dans les deux pays africains etudies une partie importante de la population vit dans des menages etendus et/ou polygames. De telles structures des menages sont l’exception ou meme absentes dans les pays d’Asie ou le menage nucleaire et monogame predomine. Ce document constate que la polygamie a une relation negative avec le processus d’accumulation de capital. La richesse par tete est significativement inferieure dans les menages polygames meme apres avoir controle par le revenu, l’âge et l’education du chef de menage. Une premiere analyse des mecanismes possibles qui pourraient expliquer ces resultats suggere que la taille plus grande des menages polygames joue un role important. On trouve un resultat semblable pour l’education : les taux de scolarisation ne sont jamais superieurs mais souvent moins eleves dans ces menages. La diversite selon les pays prouve que la polygamie a des significations tres differentes selon les societes... |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/labor/FLS/IFLS/papers/2008_de_laiglesia.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/39872/1/AEL_2008_8_delaiglesia.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.oecd.org/dev/39922188.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/www/external/labor/FLS/IFLS/papers/2008_de_laiglesia.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
