Doctoral Dissertation Research: Children at Risk: Economic Motivations and Consequences of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

SES 0082840PI：Christopher R Ury，Richard S Akresh该项目使用在布基纳法索收集的数据来评估正式的决策模式，该模型适用于将儿童送往寄养家庭的决定。人们普遍关心的是评估家庭人口偏好、非正式保险机制和劳动生产率对这些决策的重要性。发送和接收家庭都将被跟踪，从而改进了以前只研究交易的一端的研究。这项工作的结果将是一个结构模型，用于理解家庭关于理想家庭规模的决定。研究结果应可用于设计方案，以更好地满足家庭的教育、卫生和劳动力需求。

SES 0082840PI: Christopher R Udry, Richard S AkreshThis project uses data to be collected in Burkina Faso to assess a formal model of decision making as applied to decisions to put children out for foster care. The general concern is to assess the importance of household demographic preferences, informal insurance mechanisms, and labor productivity on these decisions. Both sending and receiving households will be tracked, thus improving on prior studies that only study one end of the transactions. The outcome of this work will be a structural model for understanding household decisions regarding desirable size of families. Results should be usable in designing programs to better meet the education, health, and labor needs of families.