Over the past two decades, more than half the population in rural Tanzania migrated within the country, profoundly changing the nature of traditional institutions such as informal risk sharing. Mass internal migration has created geographically disperse networks, on which the authors collected detailed panel data. By quantifying how shocks and consumption co-vary across linked households, they show how migrants unilaterally insure their extended family...
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2013/04/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS6429
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1
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2013/04/01
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Disclosed
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Risk sharing and internal migration
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migrant