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Education and Migration Choices in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Matam, Senegal
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Demonsant, Jean-Luc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The paper aims at studying determinants of schooling in traditional hierarchical societies confronted with an established history of outmigration. In the village, a ruling caste controls local political and religious institutions. For children who do not belong to the ruling caste, migration is...
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Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital and Poverty
Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of poverty. We offer an explanation for this observation, based on a …Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless … in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504622
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Social Connections and Group Banking
Karlan, Dean S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Lending to the poor is expensive due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe lenders overcome this by harnessing social connections. Using data from FINCA-Peru, I exploit a quasi random group formation process to find evidence of peers successfully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791873
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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of in- dividuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to...
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The Diffusion of Microfinance
Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We examine how participation in a microfinance program diffuses through social networks. We collected detailed demographic and social network data in 43 villages in South India before microfinance was introduced in those villages and then tracked eventual participation. We exploit exogenous...
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Why So Many Local Entrepreneurs?
Michelacci, Claudio; Silva, Olmo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
of capital and employment), operate with more capital intensive technologies, and are able to obtain greater financing …
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Links and Architecture in Village Networks
Krishnan, Pramila; Sciubba, Emanuela - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In this paper we test the implications of a model of network formation on data from rural Ethiopia. In contrast to the current literature, we demonstrate the critical role of both number of links and architecture in determining the impact of social networks on outcomes. Social capital matters,...
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their...
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether return migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs than non-migrants. We develop a theoretical search model that puts forward the trade off faced by returnees since overseas migration provides an opportunity for human and physical capital...
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Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
consumption growth. Although moving out of agriculture resulted in much higher growth than staying in agriculture, growth was …
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