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Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks
O'Higgins, Niall - 2018
Trust and trustworthiness are important components of social capital and much attention has been devoted to their correct evaluation. In this paper, we argue that individuals' trust and trustworthiness are strongly dependent on the level of trust and trustworthiness of the social group in which...
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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Batista, Catia - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited access to formal savings. This is the first study to use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of using mobile money as a tool to promote agricultural investment....
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Strengthening Producer Organizations to Increase Market Access of Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
Vargas Hill, Ruth - 2020
procuring inputs and marketing produce, where smallholders face disproportionately high transaction costs. Producer …
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Smallholders, Market Failures, and Agricultural Production : Evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
smallholders but am unable to do so for non-smallholders. This leads to important differences in production behavior: smallholders … reallocate labor across activities less in response to intra-seasonal crop price changes than do non-smallholders. A … counterfactual exercise indicates smallholders could increase revenue by almost nine percent if they were to reallocate labor …
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Small-Scale Farming and Food Security : The Enabling Role of Cash Transfers in South Africa's Former Homelands
von Fintel, Dieter - 2016
Cash transfers successfully alleviate poverty in many developing countries. South Africa is a case in point, implementing one of the largest unconditional cash transfer programmes internationally, and with substantial benefits to household well-being along multiple dimensions. Yet, grants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978169
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How Sustainable are Benefits from Extension for Smallholder Farmers? Evidence from a Randomized Phase-Out of the BRAC Program in Uganda
Fishman, Ram - 2017
farming practices among women smallholders in Uganda. We find that while supply of improved seeds through local, BRAC trained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960248
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099689
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Delinquent Networks
Ballester, Coralio - 2009
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he...
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Social Norms in Networks
Ushchev, Philip - 2019
Although the linear-in-means model is the workhorse model in empirical work on peer effects, its theoretical properties are understudied. In this study, we develop a social-norm model that provides a microfoundation of the linear-in-means model and investigate its properties. We show that...
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Migration Networks and Location Decisions : Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
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