“…6 Literature has acknowledged the asymmetrical nature of the strength of dyadic ties. Although researchers who model informal risk insurance arrangements (e.g., Genicot and Ray, 2003;Bramoullé and Kranton, 2007;Grandjean, 2014) assume symmetrical strength of dyadic ties for the sake of simplicity, they acknowledge the limitations of the symmetry assumption and indicate that, in reality, ties may be asymmetrical.…”