The formation of community-based organizations: an analysis of a quasi-experiment in ZimbabweTools Barr, Abigail, Dekker, Marleen and Fafchamps, Marcel (2014) The formation of community-based organizations: an analysis of a quasi-experiment in Zimbabwe. World Development, 66 . pp. 131-153. ISSN 0305-750X Full text not available from this repository.AbstractPrevious 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.
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