Building trust? conditional cash transfer programmes and social capital

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-177

  Attanasio, Orazio ^a   Pellerano, Luca ^b   Reyes, Sandra Polanía ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxford Policy Management   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Cash transfer programmes; Collective action; Cooperation; Economic experiments; Public goods provision; Social capital; Social networks; VCM

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350154995     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: 14755890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2009.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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