Economic development and the decline of rural and urban community-based networks

Economics of Transition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 427-443

  Munshi, Kaivan ^a,b   Rosenzweig, Mark ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste; Consumption smoothing; Education; Networks

Indexed keywords

CASTE; LABOR MARKET; NETWORKING; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SOCIAL NETWORK; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

EID: 27744569468     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2005.00231.x     Document Type: Article

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