Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions

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Social Distance and Trust: Experimental Evidence from a Slum in Cairo (2013, background): “…through reciprocal exchange (Kranton, 1996), mutual insurance (Fafchamps, 1992; Foster and Rosenzweig, 2001) and informal contract enforcement as exercised, for instance, in rotating savings and credit associations and in group banking (Karlan, 2007; Cox and Fafchamps, 2008; Karlan et al., 2009).”
Financial instruments for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation (2015, background): “Women access postdisaster capital by joining informal risk-hedging schemes, becoming clients of micro-finance institutions, or depending on reciprocal social relationships (Cox and Fafchamps 2006).”
Risk Sharing Between Households (2011, background): “To explain the latter nding, Cox and Fafchamps (2007) draw upon the emerging literature on evolutionary psychology, in particular the Hamilton hypothesis which states that altruism is proportional to the proportion of genes individuals have in common. The Hamilton hypothesis provides testable predi”