The formation of community based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa: An analysis of a quasi-experiment

Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker and Marcel Fafchamps

No 2010-21, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: Previous analyses of the formation and comparison of community based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quai-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and clustering households. Our findings are as follow: CBO co-memberships are more likely between geographically proximate households and less likely between early and late settlers, members of female headed households are not excluded, in poorer villages CBO co-membership networks are denser and, while wealthier households may have been instrumental in setting up CBOs, poorer households engage shortly afterwards.

Keywords: Community Based Organizations; quasi-experiment; social networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D71 O12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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