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DOI10.3386/w21685
来源IDWorking Paper 21685
Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
Joachim De Weerdt; Garance Genicot; Alice Mesnard
发表日期2015-11-02
出版年2015
语种英语
摘要This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households belonging to the same network. We show that there is significant asymmetry of information and no evidence of major systematic over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of migrants regarding non-migrants. We develop a static model of asymmetric information that contrasts altruism, pressure and exchange as motives to transfer. The model makes predictions about the correlations between misperceptions and transfers under these competing explanations. Testing these predictions in the data uncovers the active role played by the recipient. Our findings suggest that the recipient sets the terms of the transfers, either by exerting pressure to give on the donor or by holding the bargaining power during the exchange of services with the donor.
主题Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Development and Growth ; Development
URLhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w21685
来源智库National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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Joachim De Weerdt,Garance Genicot,Alice Mesnard. Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks. 2015.
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