Why do African Households give Hospitality to Relatives?

B. Rapoport

Papiers d'Economie Mathématique et Applications from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: This empirical paper proposes to explain why African households often provide long-term hospitality to relatives. We use a budget and consumption survey carried out in Gabon in 1994, examine two types of hypotheses and propose a two-step procedure to discriminate between them. We address the question whether the number of guests and the hospitality decision mainly come from the head of household, in which case the whole income of the nuclear household will determine the number of guests, or if they come rather from the extended family, in which case only the part of income that relatives are able to observe will matter.

Keywords: FAMILY; DISTRIBUTION; HOUSEHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 D10 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000

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