{"id":1420,"date":"2018-07-15T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:01:08","slug":"informal-insurance-in-poor-countries-evidence-from-malawi-of-the-downside-of-having-a-big-extended-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2018\/07\/15\/informal-insurance-in-poor-countries-evidence-from-malawi-of-the-downside-of-having-a-big-extended-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Informal insurance in poor countries: Evidence from Malawi of the downside of having a big extended family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larger informal insurance groups need not provide better insurance in low-income settings. That is the conclusion of a study by Bansi Malde (School of Economics), Emla Fitzsimons (UCL and IFS) and Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL and IFS), published in the July 2018 issue of the <em>Economic Journal<\/em>. Their research indicates that in the event of a crop loss in rural Malawi, women with a large number of brothers fare considerably worse than those with fewer brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Full details of the findings of this research\u00a0were\u00a0highlighted\u00a0in the Royal Economic Society&#8217;s Media Briefings in July 2018: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.res.org.uk\/details\/mediabrief\/11079066\/INFORMAL-INSURANCE-IN-POOR-COUNTRIES-Evidence-from-Malawi-of-the-downside-of-hav.html\">http:\/\/www.res.org.uk\/details\/mediabrief\/11079066\/INFORMAL-INSURANCE-IN-POOR-COUNTRIES-Evidence-from-Malawi-of-the-downside-of-hav.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larger informal insurance groups need not provide better insurance in low-income settings. That is the conclusion of a study by Bansi Malde (School of Economics), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2018\/07\/15\/informal-insurance-in-poor-countries-evidence-from-malawi-of-the-downside-of-having-a-big-extended-family\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223908,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}