Risk Sharing within the Extended Family: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey
Risk Sharing within the Extended Family: Evidence from the Indonesia Family Life Survey
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大家庭内部的风险分担：印度尼西亚家庭生活调查的证据
DOI：
10.1086/671715
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Firman Witoelar
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作者：
Firman Witoelar
近年来，发展中国家的纵向住户调查越来越多，使研究人员能够在有家庭联系的住户之间建立联系。这种类型的数据使研究人员能够研究一些家庭的结果是否受到大家庭一级所做决定的影响。本文利用数据从两个波的印度尼西亚家庭生活调查（1997年和2000年），以构建一个面板的大家庭，以专注于一个特定的例子，这样的结果：是否消费风险分担发生在家庭之间的大家庭。研究结果表明，在控制了大家庭的固定效应后，家庭自身收入的变化仍然影响其消费的变化，拒绝了完全的消费风险保险。然而，家庭自身收入的系数很小，表明风险分担程度很大。一套简化形式估计的结果表明，家庭消费受到大家庭中其他家庭特征的影响。这篇文章有助于家庭调查的文献，阐明了如何在使用纵向家庭调查数据的面板分析中定义家庭，在纵向家庭调查中跟踪分离的家庭。
In recent years, there has been an increase in the availability of longitudinal household surveys in developing countries that allow the researchers to construct linkages between households with familial ties. This type of data allows researchers to look at whether some household outcomes are influenced by decisions made at the extended-family level. This article utilizes data from two waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (1997 and 2000) to construct a panel of extended families in order to focus on one particular example of such outcome: whether consumption risk sharing occurs among households within the extended family. The findings show that after controlling for the extended family fixed effects, changes in the household’s own income still matter for changes in its consumption, rejecting full consumption risk insurance. However, the coefficients on household own income are small, indicating significant degrees of risk sharing. Results from a set of reduced-form estimations suggest that household consumption is affected by characteristics of other households in the extended family. This article contributes to the literature on household surveys by shedding light on how one could define a household in a panel analysis that uses data from longitudinal household surveys in which split-off households are tracked.