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Periodical article |
Title: | The Formation of Community-Based Organizations: An Analysis of a Quasi-Experiment in Zimbabwe |
Authors: | Barr, Abigail Dekker, Marleen Fafchamps, Marcel |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | World Development (ISSN 0305-750X) |
Volume: | 66 |
Pages: | 131-153 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | community participation associations |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.003 |
Abstract: | Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and clustering households. Our findings are as follows: CBO co-memberships are more likely between geographically proximate households and less likely between early and late settlers, members of female-headed households are not excluded, in poorer villages CBO co-membership networks are denser and, while wealthier households may have been instrumental in setting up CBOs, poorer households engage shortly afterward. |