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Replication Data for: Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Replication Data for: Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/16OAH0
 
Creator Attanasio, Orazio
Barr, Abigail
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Genicot, Garance
Meghir, Costas
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Using data from an experiment conducted in 70 Colombian communities, we investigate who pools risk with whom when trust is crucial for enforcing risk pooling arrangements. We explore the roles played by risk attitudes and social networks. Both empirically and theoretically, we find that close friends and relatives group assortatively on risk attitudes and are more likely to join the same risk pooling group, while unfamiliar participants group less and rarely assort. These findings indicate that where there are advantages to grouping assortatively on risk attitudes those advantages may be inaccessible when trust is absent or low.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Parrado, Andres