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

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

No 236345, 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.236345

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