| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21685 |
| 来源ID | Working 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 |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21685 |
| 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/579360 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joachim De Weerdt,Garance Genicot,Alice Mesnard. Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks. 2015. |
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