Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80880 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2012/111
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We study the influence of economic inequality on co-operation and aid distribution in community-based development schemes. For this, we organized a field experiment in which community members contributed to a collective effort to attract aid. We find that devolving aid distribution to community representatives increases the aid attracted, but that this benefits community representatives only. At the same time, however, community representatives do take fairness considerations into account. They give higher aid shares to poorer community members and lower shares to low contributors. Moreover, representatives with lower relative wealth or who contribute relatively more keep higher aid shares.
Subjects: 
collective action
aid distribution
experiment
Nicaragua
JEL: 
C93
D31
D70
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-577-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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