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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2018/02/20
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS8343
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2018/02/20
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The role of social ties in factor allocation
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land transfer
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