The Formation of Community-Based Organizations: An Analysis of a Quasi-Experiment in Zimbabwe

Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker and Marcel Fafchamps

World Development, 2015, vol. 66, issue C, 131-153

Abstract: Previous analyses of the formation and composition 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 quasi-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and clustering households. Our findings are as follows: 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 afterward.

Keywords: Community-based organizations; quasi-experiment; social networks; Africa; Zimbabwe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.003

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