Building Social Capital: Conditional Cash Transfers and Cooperation

Publicado en

• Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Resumen

• Many conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have important social components and, therefore, can have an effect on social capital. In 2007, we conducted a field experiment with 1451 subjects in Cartagena, Colombia. We interpret the behavior in the game as a measure of what in the literature has been called social capital. We played the game in two similar and adjacent neighborhoods. The ‘treatment’ neighborhood, Pozón, had been targeted for over 2 years by a CCT program, Familias en Acción; the ‘control’ neighborhood, Ciénaga, had not. In 2008, with the program being implemented in both neighborhoods, we played the same public goods game, and were therefore able to implement a difference in differences strategy to estimate the impact of the CCT on our measure of social capital.

autores

• Attanasio, Orazio
• Pellerano, Luca
• Polanía-Reyes, Sandra

fecha de publicación

• 2015

Área temática

• C92 - Laboratorio, comportamiento de grupo
• D70 - Análisis de la toma de decisiones colectiva: Generalidades
• D78 - Análisis positivo de las decisiones políticas y de su ejecución
• H41 - Bienes públicos
• Z13 - Sociología económica; Antropología económica; Estratificación socioeconómica

Enfoque geográfico

• Colombia  Country
• South America  Continent

Líneas de investigación

• Behavioral Experiments
• Cartagena
• Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
• Cooperation
• Public Goods Provision
• Social Capital
• Social Preferences

Identificador de objeto digital (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.04.004

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