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Redistribution and Group Participation: Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK

dc.contributor.author Fafchamps, Marcel
dc.contributor.author Hill, Ruth Vargas
dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-05T20:33:01Z
dc.date.available 2018-02-05T20:33:01Z
dc.date.issued 2018-02
dc.description.abstract This paper investigates whether the prospect of redistribution hinders the formation of efficiency-enhancing groups. An experiment is conducted in a Kenyan slum, Ugandan villages, and a UK university town and used to test, in an anonymous setting with no feedback, whether subjects join a group that increases their endowment but exposes them to one of three redistributive actions: stealing, giving, or burning. Exposure to redistributive options among group members operates as a disincentive to join a group. This finding obtains under all three treatments -- including when the pressure to redistribute is intrinsic. However, the nature of the redistribution affects the magnitude of the impact. Giving has the least impact on the decision to join a group, whilst forced redistribution through stealing or burning acts as a much larger deterrent to group membership. These findings are common across all three subject pools, but African subjects are particularly reluctant to join a group in the burning treatment, indicating strong reluctance to expose themselves to destruction by others. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/208861517841440138/Redistribution-and-group-participation-experimental-evidence-from-Africa-and-the-UK
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29318
dc.language English
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8330
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject REDISTRIBUTION
dc.subject INEQUALITY
dc.subject GROUP MEMBERSHIP
dc.title Redistribution and Group Participation en
dc.title.subtitle Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK en
dc.type Working Paper en
dc.type Document de travail fr
dc.type Documento de trabajo es
dspace.entity.type Publication
okr.associatedcontent https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/35428 Journal article
okr.crossref.title Redistribution and Group Participation: Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK
okr.date.disclosure 2018-02-05
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/208861517841440138/Redistribution-and-group-participation-experimental-evidence-from-Africa-and-the-UK
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-8330
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 090224b08560c476_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 29560185
okr.identifier.report WPS8330
okr.imported true en
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/208861517841440138/pdf/WPS8330.pdf en
okr.region.administrative Africa
okr.region.country Kenya
okr.region.country Uganda
okr.region.country United Kingdom
okr.statistics.combined 891
okr.statistics.dr 208861517841440138
okr.statistics.drstats 597
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Equity and Development
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Inequality
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Social Development & Poverty
okr.topic Social Development :: Participations and Civic Engagement
okr.topic Social Development :: Social Conflict and Violence
okr.unit Strategy and Operations Team, Development Economics Vice Presidency
relation.isSeriesOfPublication 26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
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