Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies
This paper measures the economic impact of social pressure to share income with kin and neighbors in rural Kenyan villages. The authors conduct a lab experiment in which they randomly vary the observability of investment returns. The goal is to test whether subjects reduce their income in order to k...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/06/16358327/africa-need-rotten-kin-theorem-experimental-evidence-village-economies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9337 |