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Ties that Bind: Network Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies

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  • Di Falco, Salvatore
  • Feri, Francesco
  • Pin, Paolo
  • Vollenweider, Xavier

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In this paper, we identify the economic implications of the pressure to share resources within a social network. Through a set of field experiments in rural Tanzania we randomly increased the expected harvest of a treatment group by the assignment of an improved and much more productive variety of maize. We find that individuals in this group reduced their interaction with their own network. We also find that treated individuals reduced labor input by asking fewer network members to work on their farm during the growing season and, as a result, obtained fewer harvest gains.

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  • Di Falco, Salvatore & Feri, Francesco & Pin, Paolo & Vollenweider, Xavier, 2016. "Ties that Bind: Network Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies," 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts 236345, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea16:236345
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.236345
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    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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