Risk and Reciprocity Over the Mobile Phone Network: Evidence from Rwanda.

A large literature describes how local risk sharing networks can help individuals smooth consumption in the face of idiosyncratic economic shocks. However, when an entire community faces a large covariate shock, and when the transaction costs of transfers are high, these risk sharing networks are l...

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Autors principals: Fafchamps, M, Blumenstock, J, Eagle, N
Format: Working paper
Idioma:English
Publicat: CSAE (University of Oxford) 2011