Data and Code for: Age Set vs. Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Moscona, Harvard University; Awa Ambra Seck, Harvard University

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Project Citation:

Moscona, Jacob, and Seck, Awa Ambra. Data and Code for: Age Set vs. Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-07-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E192224V1

Project Description

Summary:

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.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Social structure; redistribution; financial networks; age sets; family; pensions

JEL Classification:
      G51 Household Finance: Household Saving, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
      O12 Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
      Z10 Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General

Geographic Coverage: Kenya and Uganda

Time Period(s): 2006 – 2016

Universe: Individuals and households in Northern Kenya (Hunger Safety Net Program data) and in Uganda (Demographic and Health Surveys). In both cases, also focus on a population of children under the age of five for part of the analysis.

Data Type(s): experimental data; observational data; survey data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: Individual

Geographic Unit: District/sub-location

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