De Weerdt, Joachim; Génicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - 2014
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from … belonging to the same network. We show that there is significant asymmetry of information and no evidence of major systematic … migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and …