| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8452 |
| DP8452 Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya | |
| Marcel Fafchamps; Eliana La Ferrara | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-06-01 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper examines the incomes of individuals who have joined self-help groups in poor neighborhoods of Nairobi. Self-help groups are often advocated as a way of facilitating income pooling. We find that incomes are indeed more correlated among individuals in the same group than among individuals who belong to different groups. Using an original methodology, we test whether this correlation is due to self-selection of similar individuals into the same groups. We find that this correlation is not driven by positive assortative matching. If anything, selection works in the opposite direction: incomes from group activities would be more correlated if individuals were matched at random. These findings are consistent with the idea that self-help groups play a mutual assistance role. |
| 主题 | Development Economics |
| 关键词 | Income pooling Self-help groups |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8452 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537280 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcel Fafchamps,Eliana La Ferrara. DP8452 Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya. 2011. |
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