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Consumption smoothing? Livestock, insurance and drought in rural Burkina Faso

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Kazianga, Harounan, Udry, Christopher·2006·Journal of Development Economics
DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.01.011
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This paper explores the extent of consumption smoothing between 1981 and 1985 in rural Burkina Faso. In particular, we examine the extent to which livestock, grain storage and interhousehold transfers are used to smooth consumption against income risk. The survey coincided with a period of severe drought, so that the results provide direct evidence on the effectiveness of these various insurance mechanisms when they are the most needed. We find evidence of little consumption smoothing. In particular, there is almost no risk sharing, and households rely almost exclusively on self-insurance in the form of adjustments to grain stocks to smooth out consumption. The outcome, however is far from complete smoothing. Hence the main risk-coping strategies, which are hypothesized in the literature (risk sharing and buffer stock), were not effective during the survey period.

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Authors
Kazianga, H., & Udry, C.
Venue
Journal of Development Economics
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2006-04
Volume
79
Issue
2
Pages
413-446
ISSN
0304-3878 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.01.011
OpenAlex
W2155385827
Cited by
622
References
34
FWCI
27.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)

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