Household Risk Management in Senegal

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Household Risk Management in Senegal

dc.contributor.author	De Vreyer, Philippe
dc.contributor.author	Lambert, Sylvie
dc.date.accessioned	2013-12-06T15:55:36Z
dc.date.available	2013-12-06T15:55:36Z
dc.date.issued	2013-06
dc.description.abstract	This study explores risk management and risk coping by Senegalese households, focusing particularly on individual vulnerability to shocks within the household by (1) documenting the risks faced by households in Senegal by looking at the frequency and types of shocks that households are exposed to, as well as the positive and negative ways in which households cope; (2) assessing the impact of the shocks on household per capita consumption and on human capital accumulation in an attempt to identify which of the household characteristics facilitate coping; and (3) addressing the way shocks affect the intra‐household allocation of resources. Results show that bigger households seem to benefit more from positive shocks, while single parent households or households headed by unmarried women are more affected by negative shocks than other households. Additionally, the authors reveal that poor households are more vulnerable than non‐poor to shocks, and that asset holding helps in smoothing the impact of shocks on consumption.	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/16369
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/16369
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	risk coping
dc.subject	intra‐household allocation
dc.subject	gender divide
dc.subject	household consumption
dc.subject	human capital accumulation
dc.subject	intra‐household inequalities
dc.subject	poverty
dc.subject	family structure
dc.subject	living standards
dc.subject	household composition
dc.title	Household Risk Management in Senegal	en
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Gender
okr.date.disclosure	2013-12-06
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-05T12:29:25.336162Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.globalpractice	Agriculture
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.language.supported	en
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.country	Senegal
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population
okr.topic	Agriculture::Commodity Risk Management
okr.topic	Agriculture::Food Security
okr.topic	Gender::Gender and Economics
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Development Patterns and Poverty
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topic	Poverty Reduction::Living Standards