Social Identity and Manipulative Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists
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Social Identity and Manipulative Interhousehold Transfers Among East African Pastoralists
We model interhousehold transfers between nomadic livestock herders as the statedependent consequence of individuals strategic interdependence resulting from the existence of multiple, opposing externalities. A public good security externality among individuals sharing a social (e.g., ethnic) identity in a potentially hostile environment creates incentives to band together. Self-interested int...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.328660