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Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages.
- Abstract:
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Assorting on gender is casually observed in developing countries and is now systematically built into many group-oriented development interventions. In this paper we explore the mechanisms underlying the emergent gender assorting, using an experiment in which African villagers could form groups to share risk. We exogenously varied the extent to which grouping arrangements were enforced and, hence, the importance of trust and social enforcement as supports for group formation. Gender assorting...
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- World Development
- Volume:
- 40
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 2063 - 2077
- Publication date:
- 2012-10-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0305-750X
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:15449
- Deposit date:
- 2013-04-20
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- Copyright date:
- 2012
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