A. List of Model Parameters. B. Model Technical Description

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Parameter Default value Description Status Mining Related miningStartTime 61 Mining starts at the 5 th year UV outsiderAgeRange Normal(29, 5) Age range for outsider agents; sampled from truncated Normal with range [16, 40] years LT outsiderMineTrainProb 0.001 Chance that an outsider agent is an skilled mineworker UV outsiderWaitingTime Uniform(1, 5) Number of months that an outsider agent waits without a job at mine UV skilledCapacity 100 Maximum number of skilled agents that can be employed at the mine UV skilledWorkerSalary Normal(5000, 500) Monthly salary for skilled workers at the mine sampled from Normal distribution DE unskilledCapacity 350 Maximum number of unskilled agents that can be employed at the mine UV unskilledWorkerSalary Normal(1000, 250) Monthly salary for unskilled workers at the mine sampled from Normal distribution DE Funeral Clubs Related fc_GracePeriod 6 months Grace period for members without paying dues UV fcCapacity Uniform(11, 19) Maximum number of funeral club members per club in the model UV fcInitialMoney 10,000 Rand Initial money assigned to funeral clubs UV funeralClubDue 70 Rand Monthly funeral club fee paid by members DE maxFC_Cost 7500 Rand Maximum funeral cost for a bereaved household DE midFC_Cost 5000 Rand Average funeral cost for a bereaved household DE minFC_Cost 2500 Rand Minimum funeral cost for a bereaved household DE Savings Clubs (‘stokvel’) Related minStokvelMembers 3 Minimum number of members required to form a savings club UV probFacilitator 0.20 Chance for an agent to act as a facilitator for initiating a savings club UV stokvelFee 50 Rand Monthly savings club fee paid by members DE Household Related chanceBorrowFood 0.20 Chance for borrowing food in a month time UV chancePieceJob 0.75 Chance for an eligible household to announce piecewise jobs UV educationFee 20 Rand Monthly school fee per child agent UV healthExp 50 Rand Health expenditure per member of a household UV maxMoneyToFeed 165 Rand Maximum money required to feed an adult male DE maxStartWealth 2500 Rand Maximum starting wealth for households DE minMoneyToFeed 120 Rand Minimum money required to feed an adult male DE minStartWealth 1500 Rand Minimum starting wealth for households DE numPiecewiseJobs Uniform(1, 3) Number of piecewise jobs announced by an eligible households UV richHHCriteria 15,000 Rand Minimum wealth for a household required to announced piecewise jobs at household UV 294
Appendix-B: Model Technical Description 295
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