Incentives in networks with redistributive pressures and endogenous incomes: Pilot study

Project Active from to Sustainable Growth

This study investigates how redistributive pressures within social networks in developing countries—driven by income uncertainty and limited access to credit—affect labour supply, risk-taking, and consumption decisions. Using a lab-in-the-field experiment in Uganda, it quantifies the efficiency costs of these spillovers and explores their implications for labour markets, informal credit behaviour, and the design of targeted cash transfer programs.