De Weerdt, Joachim; Genicot, Garance; Mesnard, Alice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that...