Age Set versus Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Moscona, Jacob; Seck, Awa Ambra
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Harvard University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20211856
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 2748-2791
• 关键词: LINEAGE ORGANIZATION; Cash transfers; RISK; insurance; GENDER; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; CONFLICT; networks; pensions

摘要

We study how social organization shapes patterns of economic interaction and the effects of national policy , , focusing on the distinction between age-based and kin-based groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Motivated by ethnographic accounts suggesting that this distinction affects redistribution , , we analyze a cash transfer program in Kenya and find that in age-based societies there are consumption spillovers within the age cohort , , but not the extended family , , while in kin-based societies we find the opposite. Next , , we document that social structure shapes the impact of policy by showing that Uganda's pension program had positive effects on child nutrition only in kin-based societies.