The role of social ties in factor allocation (English)

This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics, and kinship related households. Does this lead to the conclusion that land inequality is due to flows of land between households being impeded by social divisions?...

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Beck,Ulrik;

Bjerge,Benedikte Alkjaersig;

Fafchamps,Marcel;
Document Date
2018/02/20
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8343
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Gambia, The,
Region
Western and Central Africa,
Disclosure Date
2018/02/20
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
The role of social ties in factor allocation
Keywords
land transfer

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Beck,Ulrik; Bjerge,Benedikte Alkjaersig; Fafchamps,Marcel.

The role of social ties in factor allocation (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8343 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/625951519134631616

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