This paper measures the economic impact of social pressure to share income with kin and neighbors in rural Kenyan villages. The authors conduct a lab experiment in which they randomly vary the observability of investment returns. The goal is to test whether subjects reduce their income in order to keep it hidden. The analysis finds that women adopt an investment strategy that conceals the size of their initial endowment in the experiment, although...
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2012/06/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6085
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2012/06/01
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Disclosed
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Does Africa need a rotten Kin Theorem ? experimental evidence from village economies
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Rotating Savings and Credit