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Why Is the Practice of Levirate Marriage Disappearing in Africa? HIV/AIDS as an Agent of Institutional Change
https://doi.org/10.20561/00037555
https://doi.org/10.20561/00037555fc385c83-044f-434d-855a-0ff39515c533
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Item type | アジ研テクニカルレポート / IDE Technical Report(1) | |||||
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公開日 | 2017-01-26 | |||||
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タイトル | Why Is the Practice of Levirate Marriage Disappearing in Africa? HIV/AIDS as an Agent of Institutional Change | |||||
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言語 | eng | |||||
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資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18gh | |||||
資源タイプ | technical report | |||||
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ID登録 | 10.20561/00037555 | |||||
ID登録タイプ | JaLC | |||||
著者 |
Kudo, Yuya
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値 | 工藤, 友哉 | |||||
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内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
内容記述 | Levirate marriage, whereby a widow is inherited by male relatives of her deceased husband, has anecdotally been viewed as informal insurance for widows who have limited property rights. This study investigates why this widespread practice in sub-Saharan Africa has recently been disappearing. A developed game-theoretic analysis reveals that levirate marriage arises as a pure strategy subgame perfect equilibrium when a husband's clan desires to keep children of the deceased within its extended family and widows have limited independent livelihood means. Female empowerment renders levirate marriage redundant because it increases widows' reservation utility. HIV/AIDS also discourages a husband's clan from inheriting a widow who loses her husband to HIV/AIDS, reducing her remarriage prospects and thus, reservation utility because she is likely to be HIV positive. Consequently, widows' welfare tends to decline (increase) in step with the deterioration of levirate marriage driven by HIV/AIDS (female empowerment). By exploiting long-term household panel data drawn from rural Tanzania and testing multiple theoretical predictions relevant to widows' welfare and women's fertility, this study finds that HIV/AIDS is primarily responsible for the deterioration of levirate marriage. Young widows in Africa may need some form of social protection against the influence of HIV/AIDS. | |||||
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権利情報 | Copyrights 日本貿易振興機構(ジェトロ)アジア経済研究所 / Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO) http://www.ide.go.jp | |||||
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IDE Discussion Paper en : IDE Discussion Paper 巻 627, 発行日 2017-01 |
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出版者 | Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) | |||||
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出版タイプ | VoR | |||||
出版タイプResource | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |||||
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主題Scheme | NDC | |||||
主題 | 369.25 | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | JEL:J12 - Marriage; | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | J13 - Fertility; | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Z13 - Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks | |||||
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位置情報(自由記述) | タンザニア | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Women welfare | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Social customs | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Marriage | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Diseases | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Tanzania | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Female empowerment | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | HIV/AIDS | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Informal insurance | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | levirate marriage | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Social institution | |||||
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主題Scheme | Other | |||||
主題 | Widowhood protection | |||||
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内容記述タイプ | Other | |||||
内容記述 | application/pdf | |||||
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内容記述タイプ | Other | |||||
内容記述 | IDP000627_001 |