Climate change and weather shocks pose
major challenges for household income security and
well-being, especially for smallholder farmers’ communities.
In such communities, imperfect risk insurance and labor
markets may induce households to use traditional
institutions such as polygyny to harness their size and
composition to their resilience strategies against these
shocks. This paper tests this hypothesis by analyzing how
polygyny’s interaction...
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2021/05/13
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政策研究报告
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WPS9663
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2021/05/13
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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks
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drought; crop yield; risk-sharing mechanism; Democratic Republic of Congo; alternative measure; bride price