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Title A description of within-family resource exchange networks in a Malawian village
Full text http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/6/23-6.pdf
Author(s) Gail E. Potter; Mark S. Handcock
Abstract In this paper we explore patterns of economic transfers between adults within household and family networks in a village in Malawi's Rumphi district, using data from the 2006 round of the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health. We fit Exponential-family Random Graph Models (ERGMs) to assess individual, relational, and higher-order network effects. The network effects of cyclic giving, reciprocity, and in-degree and out-degree distribution suggest a network with a tendency away from the formation of hierarchies or "hubs." Effects of age, sex, working status, education, health status, and kinship relation are also considered. - Malawi, Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health, networks, resource exchange, social network
Type of publication article
Identifier RePEc:dem:demres:v:23:y:2010:i:6
Repository RePEc - Research Papers in Economics
Added to C-A: 2010-09-03;09:14:59