Testing unilateral and bilateral link formation

Economic Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 579, 2014, Pages 954-976

  Comola, Margherita ^a,b   Fafchamps, Marcel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SURVEY; TESTING METHOD;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84906940768     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12071     Document Type: Article

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