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Analyzing social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and Eastern Germany: Conceptual model and study design
Keim-Klärner, Sylvia; Bernard, Josef; Bischof, Susann; … - 2021
peripheralization and rural restructuring, and considers social networks and individual agency. Area-level secondary data and … project 'Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency … and regional opportunity structures, and individual agency in rural peripheries in Czechia and eastern Germany from a …
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Social network effects on mobile money adoption in Uganda
Murendo, Conrad; Wollni, Meike; De Brauw, Alan; Mugabi, … - 2015
Social networks play a vital role in generating social learning and information exchange that can drive the diffusion of new financial innovations. This is particularly relevant for developing countries where education, extension and financial information services are underprovided. The recent...
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Gift-giving and network structure in rural China : utilizing long-term spontaneous gift records
Chen, Xi - 2014
The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This paper first summarizes unique features of the gift record data that circumvent five prevailing...
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Household savings and productive capital formation in rural Vietnam : insurance vs. social network
Gries, Thomas; Ha Van Dung - 2014
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Does index insurance crowd in or crowd out informal risk sharing? : evidence from rural Ethiopia
Takahashi, Kazushi; Barrett, Christopher B.; Ikegami, … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 101 (2019) 3, pp. 672-691
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Social interactions and stigmatized behavior : "donating" blood plasma in rural China
Chen, Xi; Sahn, David E.; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
Despite the resultant disutility, some people, in particular, the poor, are engaged in behaviors that carry social stigma. Empirical studies on stigmatized behavior are rare, largely due to the formidable challenges of collecting data on stigmatized goods and services. In this paper, we add to...
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Financial intermediation and financial inclusion of poor households : mediating role of social networks in rural Uganda
Bongomin, George Okello Candiya; Ntayi, Joseph Mpeera; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16
The paper examined the mediating role of social networks in the relationship between financial intermediation and financial inclusion of poor households in rural Uganda. The paper used SPSS (statistical package for social scientist) and applied MedGraph program (Excel version 13), Sobel test,...
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Social interactions and stigmatized behavior : "donating" blood plasma in rural China
Chen, Xi; Sahn, David E.; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2018
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The determinants of trust : evidence from rural South India
Hilger, Anne; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2020
Trust and participation in social networks are inherently interrelated. We make use of India's demonetization policy, an unexpected and unforeseeable exogenous variation, to causally identify the effect of social networks in determining trust. We use first-hand quantitative and qualitative data...
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Risky business? : rural entrepreneurship in subsistence markets : evidence from Burundi
Cieslik, Katarzyna; D'Aoust, Olivia - In: The European journal of development research : journal … 30 (2018) 4, pp. 693-717
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