کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
992171 935721 2012 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Bridging the Gender Divide: An Experimental Analysis of Group Formation in African Villages
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryAssorting on gender is casually observed in developing countries and is now systematically built into many group-oriented development interventions. In this paper we explore the mechanisms underlying the emergent gender assorting, using an experiment in which African villagers could form groups to share risk. We exogenously varied the extent to which grouping arrangements were enforced and, hence, the importance of trust and social enforcement as supports for group formation. Gender assorting was significant and considerable when grouping was perfectly enforced or depended on social enforcement. There was significantly less gender assorting when grouping depended on trust. Exploratory analysis suggests that this reduction in gender assorting may be owing to family ties and co-memberships in gender-mixed religions.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 40, Issue 10, October 2012, Pages 2063–2077
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