Links and Architecture in Village Networks (previously: Endogenous Network Formation and Informal Institutions in Village Economies)

Pramila Krishnan and Emanuela Sciubba

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: This paper o¤ers a bridge between the theoretical literature on endogenous network formation and the empirical work on the impact of social networks on economic performance. We provide a theoretical framework of endogenous network formation that yields testable predictions for the network architectures generated by a particular informal institution common in village economies. We test the implications of the model on data from rural Ethiopia. In contrast to the current literature, we demonstrate the critical role of both number of links and architecture in determining the impact of social networks on outcomes.Social capital matters, but its impact di¤ers by the architecture of the network to which one belongs.

Keywords: Endogenous network formation; rural institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D85 O12 O17 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2004-11
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