Project Info
Principal Investigators
Cátia Batista
Daniel Silverman
Dean Yang
Field Coordination
Cheney Wells
Partnership
Banco Oportunidade de Moçambique (BOM)
Managing Institution
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
Funding
Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI)
International Growth Center (IGC)
About this Project
A collaborative effort with Banco Oportunidade de Moçambique
Transfers between families are extremely common and substantial in developing countries such as Mozambique. Why do people give? What are the main barriers to giving and how can they be overcome?
Basic answers to these questions are provided by running a lab-in-the-field experiment. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person to them outside their household.
In these games, individuals share more with counterparts when they have the option of giving in kind (in the form of goods), compared to giving that must be in cash. Results suggest that this effect is driven by a desire to control how recipients use gifted resources. Standard economic determinants such as the rate of return to giving and the size of the endowment also affect giving, but the effects are significantly smaller than the effect of the in-kind option.
Please see here the working paper and here the published article in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.
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