Social capital and coping with economic shocks

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The Influence of Formal and Informal Institutional Voids on Entrepreneurship (2020, background): “Carter and Maluccio (2003) describe how informal insurance can assist development by mitigating isolated individual hardships (e.g., child illness, death in a family, or a prior failed business); however, when tragic events with broader societal repercussions occur, such arrangements are…”
Development and social capital (2006, background): “Illustrations of this approach can now be found in numerous papers, notably in many of the papers on social capital produced by the World Bank as well as in Carter and Maluccio (2003), Maluccio et al., (2000), Haddad and Maluccio (2003), Fafchamps (2003) and Fafchamps and Minten (2002).”
A Dark Side of Social Capital? Kinship, Consumption, and Savings (2011, background): “Moreover, Carter and Maluccio (2003) present evidence suggesting that structural social capital insures households against (idiosyncratic) economic shocks, where the coping capacity of households is measured by the nutritional status of children (height-for-age z scores of young children).”