Burial societies in rural Ethiopia

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cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.creator.identifierJohn Hoddinott: 0000-0002-0590-3917
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.placePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
dc.contributor.authorDercon, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorHoddinott, John F.
dc.contributor.authorKrishnan, Pramila
dc.contributor.authorWoldehanna, Tassew
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-01T13:55:55Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-01T13:55:55Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153303
dc.titleBurial societies in rural Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractIn doing so, the chapter builds on research addressing how poor households respond to shocks; see Morduch (2005) and references therein, the review paper by Skoufias and Quisumbing (2005), and the recent collection edited by Dercon (2005). These show that in the face of shocks households can partially smooth consumption, but not perfectly; as might be expected, idiosyncratic shocks (for instance, low or late rainfall on household plots) are more likely to be insured collectively than are generalized shocks (such as low rainfall on most plots in the village). In most empirical studies of risk smoothing—for example, that of Townsend (1994)—the insurance unit has been assumed to be the village. Studies using Townsend's approach have often found that households are able to cope with idiosyncratic shocks but not covariate shocks, implying that local insurance mechanisms are inadequate to cope with aggregate shocks. More recent studies (for example, that of Munshi and Rosenzweig 2005) have begun to question the assumption that the appropriate unit of risk smoothing is the village. They suggest that consumption is smoothed within subcaste networks that extend beyond the village. Indeed, the literature on migration and remittances suggests that networks can cross geographic boundaries, with the formation of migrant networks at destination sites affected by shocks in the original locality (Munshi 2003).en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDercon, Stefan; Hoddinott, John F.; Krishnan, Pramila; and Woldehanna, Tassew. 2011. Burial societies in rural Ethiopia. In Collective action and property rights for poverty reduction: Insights from Africa and Asia, ed. Esther Mwangi; Helen Markelova; and Ruth Suseela Meinzen-Dick. Chapter 3. Pp. 51-78. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press. Published for the International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153303en
dcterms.extent30 pages
dcterms.isPartOfCollective action and property rights for poverty reduction: Insights from Africa and Asiaen
dcterms.issued2011
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/20912en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/CAPRiWP83en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298064en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130984
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjectrural areasen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectcollective actionen
dcterms.subjectvulnerabilityen
dcterms.subjectshocken
dcterms.subjectsocial capitalen
dcterms.subjectnetworksen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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