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Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks (English)

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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Dessy,Sylvain Eloi; Tiberti,Luca; Tiberti,Marco; Zoundi,David Aime.

Polygyny and Farm Households' Resilience to Climate Shocks (English). Policy Research working paper,no. WPS 9663,LSMS Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/357711620918404250/Polygyny-and-Farm-Households-Resilience-to-Climate-Shocks

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