Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali

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Alzua, Maria Laura; Cardenas, Juan Camilo; Djebbari, Habiba
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2013
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Community mobilization is a key feature of community based development projects. Community mobilization requires facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is communication an effective device through which mobilization may foster collective action? Does informing the community on how to reach a better social outcome key? Should we expect the effectiveness of community based programs to depend on the quality of leadership in the community? In rural communities of Mali, we find evidence of high levels of cooperation as measured by a standard public good game. Communication between players increases contributions to the public good. Passing of information through a random community member also improves cooperation, and leadership skills matter. We also find suggestive evidence that changes in behavior are mediated through changes in beliefs. The experiments are embedded in a larger randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a community based sanitation intervention. As such, our results are relevant for a large population. Finally, we find that the program help strengthen the capacity for collective action.
Fil: Alzua, Maria Laura. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Cardenas, Juan Camilo. Universidad de Los Andes; Venezuela
Fil: Djebbari, Habiba. Aix-Marseille University; Francia. Universite Laval; Francia
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Community Based Development
Randomized Controlled Trials
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
title Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
spellingShingle Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
Alzua, Maria Laura
Public Good Experiments
Community Based Development
Randomized Controlled Trials
title_short Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
title_full Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
title_fullStr Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
title_full_unstemmed Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
title_sort Community Mobilization Around Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Rural Mali
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alzua, Maria Laura
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Djebbari, Habiba
author Alzua, Maria Laura
author_facet Alzua, Maria Laura
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Djebbari, Habiba
author_role author
author2 Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Djebbari, Habiba
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Public Good Experiments
Community Based Development
Randomized Controlled Trials
topic Public Good Experiments
Community Based Development
Randomized Controlled Trials
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https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Community mobilization is a key feature of community based development projects. Community mobilization requires facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is communication an effective device through which mobilization may foster collective action? Does informing the community on how to reach a better social outcome key? Should we expect the effectiveness of community based programs to depend on the quality of leadership in the community? In rural communities of Mali, we find evidence of high levels of cooperation as measured by a standard public good game. Communication between players increases contributions to the public good. Passing of information through a random community member also improves cooperation, and leadership skills matter. We also find suggestive evidence that changes in behavior are mediated through changes in beliefs. The experiments are embedded in a larger randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a community based sanitation intervention. As such, our results are relevant for a large population. Finally, we find that the program help strengthen the capacity for collective action.
Fil: Alzua, Maria Laura. Universidad Nacional de la Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas. Departamento de Ciencias Económicas. Centro de Estudios Distributivos Laborales y Sociales; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Cardenas, Juan Camilo. Universidad de Los Andes; Venezuela
Fil: Djebbari, Habiba. Aix-Marseille University; Francia. Universite Laval; Francia
description Community mobilization is a key feature of community based development projects. Community mobilization requires facilitating communication between village members and between leaders and the rest of the community. Is communication an effective device through which mobilization may foster collective action? Does informing the community on how to reach a better social outcome key? Should we expect the effectiveness of community based programs to depend on the quality of leadership in the community? In rural communities of Mali, we find evidence of high levels of cooperation as measured by a standard public good game. Communication between players increases contributions to the public good. Passing of information through a random community member also improves cooperation, and leadership skills matter. We also find suggestive evidence that changes in behavior are mediated through changes in beliefs. The experiments are embedded in a larger randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a community based sanitation intervention. As such, our results are relevant for a large population. Finally, we find that the program help strengthen the capacity for collective action.
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