Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment resembles the many forms of interaction that business and community organizations offer to their members. The design features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assi...

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Main Authors:	Fafchamps, Marcel, Quinn, Simon
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2020
Subjects:	VALUE ADDED TAX VAT ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY FIRM BEHAVIOR WAGES
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33531

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spelling	okr-10986-335312021-05-25T10:54:42Z Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment Fafchamps, Marcel Quinn, Simon VALUE ADDED TAX VAT ENTREPRENEURSHIP TECHNOLOGY FIRM BEHAVIOR WAGES We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment resembles the many forms of interaction that business and community organizations offer to their members. The design features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assignment to treatment and placebo.We study the impact of the experiment on firm business practices outside of the lab. We find that the experiment successfully created new variation in social networks. We find significant diffusion of business practices in terms of VAT registration and having a bank current account. This diffusion is a combination of diffusion of innovation and simple imitation. At the time of our experiment, all three studied countries were undergoing large changes in their VAT legislation. 2020-04-03T19:19:41Z 2020-04-03T19:19:41Z 2018-10 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33531 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Africa Sub-Saharan Africa
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description	We run a novel field experiment to link managers of African manufacturing firms. The experiment resembles the many forms of interaction that business and community organizations offer to their members. The design features exogenous link formation, exogenous seeding of information, and exogenous assignment to treatment and placebo.We study the impact of the experiment on firm business practices outside of the lab. We find that the experiment successfully created new variation in social networks. We find significant diffusion of business practices in terms of VAT registration and having a bank current account. This diffusion is a combination of diffusion of innovation and simple imitation. At the time of our experiment, all three studied countries were undergoing large changes in their VAT legislation.
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author	Fafchamps, Marcel Quinn, Simon
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title	Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
title_short	Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
title_full	Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
title_fullStr	Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
title_full_unstemmed	Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33531
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Networks and Manufacturing Firms in Africa : Results from a Randomized Field Experiment

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