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Social identity and the formation of health insurance networks
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Abstract
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In a panel survey of an informal insurance network in Tanzania we find none of the tell-tale signs that insurance transfers follow reciprocal risk sharing arrangements among self-interested individuals: insurance remittances do not occur through informal loans; transfers are not regressive; and they do not fall when shocks are repeated over time. The evidence of unreciprocated transfers occurring between kin is suggestive of risk sharing based on altruism or social norms. |
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Language
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English
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The journal of development studies. - London, 1964, currens
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Publication
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London
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2011
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ISSN
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0022-0388
1743-9140
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DOI
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10.1080/00220388.2010.527952
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Volume/pages
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47
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, p. 1152-1177
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ISI
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000295358100003
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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