The formation of risk sharing networks

By Marcel Fafchamps, F. Gubert. 2007

766 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Christopher B. Barrett
2. Marcel Fafchamps
3. Michael R. Carter
4. O. Attanasio
5. Rohini Pande
6. Erica M. Field
7. Erwin H. Bulte
8. Travis J. Lybbert

In Safety Research

1. Christopher B. Barrett
2. Michael R. Carter
3. Travis J. Lybbert
4. O. Attanasio
5. Jenny C. Aker
6. Erwin H. Bulte
7. Marcel Fafchamps
8. A. Barr

In Soil Science

1. Christopher B. Barrett
2. Michael R. Carter
3. Marcel Fafchamps
4. Travis J. Lybbert
5. Erwin H. Bulte
6. Paulo Santos
7. Jenny C. Aker
8. Juan-Camilo Cardenas

Citations in the corpus

• Extended Family and Kinship Networks: Economic Insights and Evolutionary Directions (2008, background): “As Udry (1994), Fafchamps and Gubert (2004) further show that repayment of such loans is contingent on shocks affecting both parties.”
• Cluster–Robust Variance Estimation for Dyadic Data (2013, neutral): “Fafchamps and Gubert (2007, Eq.”
• Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks (2012, methodology): “The network matrix M ≡ [mij] is symmetrical since mij = mji by construction and, as noted by Fafchamps and Gubert (2007), this implies that the explanatory variables must enter the regression model in symmetric form.”
• Robust Inference with Clustered Data (2010, methodology): “Early empirical applications that independently proposed this method include Acemoglu and Pischke (2003), and Fafchamps and Gubert (2007).”
• Persistent poverty and informal credit (2011, methodology): “Fafchamps and Gubert (2007), Udry and Conley (2005) and Santos and Barrett (2008b) find no significant differences from estimates that do not account for correlation across matches’ unobservables.”
• Does Digital Divide or Provide? The Impact of Cell Phones on Grain Markets in Niger (2008, methodology): “ij t ij ij X p cell X p cell      (13)”
• Risk Sharing Between Households (2011, background): “…shocks.4 Further extensions by Kocherlakota (1996), Ligon, Thomas and Worrall (2001), Foster and Rosenzweig (2001) and Fafchamps (1999) have bridged the gap between gift exchange and quasicredit of the kind described by Platteau and Abraham (1987), Udry (1994), and Fafchamps and Gubert (2007a).”
• The Economic Returns to Social Interaction: Experimental Evidence from Microfinance (2013, background): “17Factors common across observations involving a single member imply observations in a pairwise (dyadic) regression are not independent (Fafchamps and Gubert, 2007).”
• Robust Inference With Multiway Clustering (2006, neutral): “Foote (2007) re-investigated Shimer’s (2001) in‡uential …nding of a (surprising) negative correlation between a U.”