Shadow households and competing auspices

Fe Caces, Fred Arnold, James T. Fawcett and Robert W. Gardner

Journal of Development Economics, 1985, vol. 17, issue 1, 5-25

Abstract: In this paper, two concepts related to spatial mobility at the household level are introduced: ‘shadow households’ and ‘competing auspices’. The shadow household consists of all individuals who are not presently living in a household but whose principal obligations and commitments are to that household. According to the competing auspices concept, intentions to move from point X to point Y are, ceteris paribus, positively related to the presence of relatives or close friends at point Y and negatively related to such links at any other point Z. The utility of these concepts is demostrated with data from a sample survey of over 1,700 individuals in Ilocos Norte, the Philippines.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(85)90016-1

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