The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation

We investigate whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from the Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics, and kinship-...

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Main Authors: Beck, Ulrik, Bjerge, Benedikte, Fafchamps, Marcel
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35416

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