| |
|
|
|
Intervention-Driven Changes in Social Networks and their Eff ects on Household Outcomes
|
|
|
| |
|
IZA Seminar |
Place: Schaumburg-Lippe-Str. 9, 53113 Bonn |
Date: 25.02.2014, 12:00 - 13:30 |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
Abstract: |
We study how social networks change as a result of an exogenous expansion in formal financial access and show how to estimate the effects of these changes
on household outcomes. We use a unique household panel dataset that contains detailed information on the network of informal financial transactions before and after a
field experiment that randomized access to savings accounts in Nepal. First, we provide evidence that the exogenous intervention a effected the network of informal
financial transactions. Second, we propose a dynamic model of peer effects in household expenditure that accounts for changes in the network due to the intervention. We show that disregarding such changes would lead to downward-biased peer-effect estimates.
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
For more information, please contact seminar@iza.org
|
