Sons as widowhood insurance: Evidence from Senegal
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- Sylvie Lambert & Pauline Rossi, 2014. "Sons as Widowhood Insurance : Evidence from Senegal," Working Papers 2014-04, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics.
- Sylvie Lambert & Pauline Rossi, 2015. "Sons as Widowhood Insurance: Evidence from Senegal," PSE Working Papers halshs-00948098, HAL.
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Keywords
Senegal; Health; Intra-household insurance; Gender; Fertility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
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