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来源IDDP8452
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
URLhttps://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
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Marcel Fafchamps,Eliana La Ferrara. DP8452 Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya. 2011.
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