| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21127 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21127 |
| Redistribution and Group Participation: Comparative Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK | |
| Marcel Fafchamps; Ruth Vargas Hill | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-04 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We design an original laboratory experiment to investigate whether redistributive actions hinder the formation of Pareto-improving groups. We test, in an anonymous setting with no feedback, whether people choose to destroy or steal the endowment of others and whether they choose to give to others, when granted the option. We then test whether subjects join a group that increases their endowment but exposes them to redistribution. We conduct the experiment in three very different settings with a priori different norms of pro-social behavior: a university town in the UK, the largest urban slum in Kenya, and rural Uganda. We find a lot of commonality but also large differences between sites. UK subjects behave in a more selfish and strategic way -- giving less, stealing more. Kenyan and Ugandan subjects behave in a more altruistic and less strategic manner. However, pro-social norms are not always predictive of joining behavior. African subjects are less likely to join a group when destruction or stealing is permitted. It is as if they are less trusting even though they are more trustworthy. These findings contradict the view that African current underdevelopment is due to a failure of generalized morality. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Development and Growth ; Development |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21127 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578802 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Marcel Fafchamps,Ruth Vargas Hill. Redistribution and Group Participation: Comparative Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK. 2015. |
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