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Who Trusts Others? Community and Individual Determinants of Social Capital in a Low Income Country
Asadullah, Niaz - 2016
This study presents new evidence on individual and community-specific determinants of social trust using data from 96 … villages in Bangladesh. We find perceived institutional trust to be positively correlated with stated inter-personal trust. At … the same time, there is significant social distance among various faith groups in our data: both Hindus and Muslims trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559604
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Returns to Islamic Microfinance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Pakistan
Maazullah; Bedi, Arjun S. - 2017
The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744677
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On the Optimal Size of a Joint Savings Association
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor; Jakubek, Marcin; … - 2022
We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating example and the core of our analysis is a Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA). We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351922
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Jimi, Nusrat Abedin; Nikolov, Plamen; Malek, Mohammad Abdul - 2019
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises. Using a field experiment involving agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141151
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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
de Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David; Woodruff, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found to be much higher among men than among women, and indeed were not different from zero for women....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566661
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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Wibral, Matthias - 2014
Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377343
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Identity Changes and the Efficiency of Reputation Systems
Wibral, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884234
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Rules, Preferences and Evolution from the Family Angle
Cigno, Alessandro - 2021
This paper reviews the literature concerning the evolution of cultural traits in general and preferences in particular, and the emergence and persistence of rules or norms, from a family perspective. In models where every new person is effectively the clone of an existing one (either a parent or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658200
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Teaching practices and social capital
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286875
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The Volatility of Survey Measures of Culture and Its Consequences
Zanella, Giulio; Bellani, Marina M. - 2019
Common measures of cultural attitudes, such as those constructed from the World Values Survey, are characterized by substantial within-country volatility. This volatility is at odds with the notion of culture adopted in economics: a set of slow-moving traits that determine preferences and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179923