Informal Institutions and Intergenerational Contracts: Evidence from Schooling and Remittances in Rural Tanzania
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Informal Institutions and Intergenerational Contracts : Evidence from Schooling and Remittances in Rural Tanzania. / Lassen, David Dreyer; Lilleør, Helene Bie.
Centre for Applied Microeconometrics. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2008.Research output: Working paper › Research
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Informal Institutions and Intergenerational Contracts
T2 - Evidence from Schooling and Remittances in Rural Tanzania
AU - Lassen, David Dreyer
AU - Lilleør, Helene Bie
N1 - JEL classification: D130, O150
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper carries out a theoretical and empirical investigation of the role of informal institutions in facilitating intergenerational contracts governing investments in schooling and payments of pensions in the form of remittances. We show, using detailed household level data from rural Tanzania, that informal institutions of social control, rooted in tribal affiliations, determine both the household's investment in schooling and the probability that it receives remittances from migrants. This is consistent with a framework in which households' expected returns in the form of remittances, which is determined partly by the prospects of social control over migrants, influence current investments in schooling.
AB - This paper carries out a theoretical and empirical investigation of the role of informal institutions in facilitating intergenerational contracts governing investments in schooling and payments of pensions in the form of remittances. We show, using detailed household level data from rural Tanzania, that informal institutions of social control, rooted in tribal affiliations, determine both the household's investment in schooling and the probability that it receives remittances from migrants. This is consistent with a framework in which households' expected returns in the form of remittances, which is determined partly by the prospects of social control over migrants, influence current investments in schooling.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Afrika
KW - social compact
KW - human capital
KW - traditions
KW - ethnicity
KW - ethnic diversity
KW - social capital
KW - Africa
M3 - Working paper
BT - Informal Institutions and Intergenerational Contracts
PB - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
ER -
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