| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24908 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24908 |
| Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks | |
| Cátia Batista; Marcel Fafchamps; Pedro C. Vicente | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-08-20 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | SMS information campaigns are increasingly used for policy. To investigate their effectiveness, we conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to study information sharing through mobile phone messages. Subjects are rural households in Mozambique who have access to mobile money. In the base treatment, subjects receive an SMS containing information on how to redeem a voucher. They can share this information with other exogeneously assigned subjects. We find that few participants redeem the voucher. They nonetheless share it with others and many share information they do not use themselves. Information is shared more when communication is anonymous and we find no evidence of homophily in information sharing. We introduce treatments to vary the cost of sending a message, shame those who do not send the voucher to others, or allow subjects to appropriate the value of information. All decrease information sharing. To encourage information sharing, the best is to keep it simple. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Economics of Information ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24908 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582582 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cátia Batista,Marcel Fafchamps,Pedro C. Vicente. Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in Social Networks. 2018. |
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| w24908.pdf（714KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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