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Intergenerational household economics and institutions (Part of “The Future Okavango”)

Research questions

The type of wealth transmitted across generations depends on its relevance for reproductive success and the society’s economic system. Investments in children’s education and agricultural assets, taken place during their lifetime in the parental home, determine their propensity to generate future livelihood. The transmission of these types of capital is particularly relevant when the society faces a transformation from subsistence to market economy, accompanied with decreasing per capita natural resources. This project studies how investment decisions in children’s start-up capital are affected by social conditions, institutions, and available economic opportunities.

Researchers

• Nadege M. Azebaze
• Evelyn Korn

Partners from other organizations

The project is part of the interdisciplinary consortium “The Future Okavango”

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  Falk, Thomas, Dirk Lohmann and Nadege Azebaze (2016), Congruence of appropriation and provision in collective water provision in Central Namibia, International Journal of the Commons, 10(1), p. 71–118.
  
  Domptail, Stephanie, Ernst-August Nuppenau, Nadege Azebaze, Lawrence Dereck Brown, Thomas Falk, Manfred Finckh, Laura Marlene Große, Benjamin Kowalski, Michael Pröpper, Marion Stellmes and Jörg Overmann (2013), Using trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem services for resource management, Biodiversity & Ecology 5, p. 185–193.
  
  Herold, Björn, Laura M. Große, Stephanie Domptail, Donald L. Kgathi, Thomas Falk, Nadege Azebaze and Benjamin Kowalski (2013), Livelihood diversification in a rural community of the Okavango Delta, Botswana. - Results from a Socio-Economic Baseline Survey, Biodiversity & Ecology 5, p. 363–377.
  
  Kowalski, Benjamin, Nadege Azebaze, Laura M. Große, Stephanie Domptail and Michael Pröpper (2013), Mashare - The People, Biodiversity & Ecology 5, p. 121-128.

  Working Paper:
  
  Nadege M. Azebaze, Thomas Falk and Evelyn Korn (2014): Land allocation in subsistence economies and intra-familial time-use decisions, MAGKS joint discussion paper no. 51/2014.

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  External funding within the project „The Future Okavango“ is gratefully acknowledged.