Different sized belts: family strategies against financial shocks Open Access
Lanau, Alba (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Habimana Jordana, Teresa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Rojas, Tomás (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Ortiz Guitart, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Solana Solana, Miguel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Juni, Maida (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Data:	2025
Resum:	When faced with financial shocks, families often combine multiple resources, including savings, networks, public transfers and services, to cover their needs and respond to changing conditions. This paper explores the strategies families with children in Barcelona deploy to respond to financial shocks by analysing interviews with 29 families experiencing difficulties to make ends meet. The paper makes three main contributions to the literature on responses to shocks. First, it provides novel evidence on how and to what extent families' strategies are shaped by their past trajectories and resources. Second, it introduces a novel technique, event interviews, specifically designed to study family responses to events and identify the resources (both public and private) they rely on. Third, by contrasting the experiences of families with diverse resources, the paper seeks to illuminate some of the mechanisms through which structural constraints shape coping strategies and thus, agency. Understanding family strategies is particularly relevant in the current context framed by the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and the recent increases in energy, food and housing prices that affected the most disadvantaged the most.
Ajuts:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación RYC2021-030963-I
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Matèria:	Resilience ; Coping ; Agency ; Family strategies ; Poverty
Publicat a:	European Societies, Vol. 27 Núm. 5 (2025) , p. 815-839, ISSN 1469-8307

DOI: 10.1162/euso_a_00043

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