The Effect of Social Capital on Group Loan Repayment: Evidence from Field Experiments

Abstract Although social capital is considered to be a key instrument for common pool resource (CPR) management, its effect among heterogenous players such as upstream and downstream farmers along an irrigation canal is not clear. Using a combination of lab-in-the-field experiments to measure social capital and household survey data in a unique natural experimental setting, this study shows that upstream farmers with higher trust toward the downstream farmers are more likely to be satisfied with their water usage. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that upstream farmers with higher trust demand less water and leave more water in a canal because they expect reciprocal behaviour from downstream farmers. Since the incentive structures of irrigation management closely resemble those of the standard experiments to measure social capital, this finding also provides a unique case study of the real-world relevance of these experiments.

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Civic honesty around the globe

Science ◽

10.1126/science.aau8712 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 365 (6448) ◽

pp. 70-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Alain Cohn ◽

Michel André Maréchal ◽

David Tannenbaum ◽

Christian Lukas Zünd

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Economic Development ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Additional Data ◽

Private Institutions ◽

Public And Private ◽

Trade Off ◽

Self Interest ◽

Material Benefits

Civic honesty is essential to social capital and economic development but is often in conflict with material self-interest. We examine the trade-off between honesty and self-interest using field experiments in 355 cities spanning 40 countries around the globe. In these experiments, we turned in more than 17,000 lost wallets containing varying amounts of money at public and private institutions and measured whether recipients contacted the owners to return the wallets. In virtually all countries, citizens were more likely to return wallets that contained more money. Neither nonexperts nor professional economists were able to predict this result. Additional data suggest that our main findings can be explained by a combination of altruistic concerns and an aversion to viewing oneself as a thief, both of which increase with the material benefits of dishonesty.

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Social capital and loan repayment performance in Northern Vietnam

Agricultural Economics ◽

10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00582.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 277-292 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Thomas Dufhues ◽

Gertrud Buchenrieder ◽

Hoang Dinh Quoc

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Loan Repayment ◽

Northern Vietnam

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Social Capital and Loan Repayment Capacity of Agripreneurial Groups' in Abia State, Nigeria

BİLTÜRK Journal of Economics and Related Studies ◽

10.47103/bilturk.941862 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Chidinma Rosemary OKEZIE ◽

Ifeanyı Moses KANU ◽

Cynthia Chisom IWU

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Loan Repayment

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Electron Microscopy of the Shape of Small Metal Particles

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100079024 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 35 ◽

pp. 300-301

Author(s):

M. Jose Yacaman

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Metal Particle ◽

Field Experiments ◽

Size Range ◽

Dark Field ◽

Metal Particles ◽

Bragg Condition ◽

Crystal Particle ◽

Small Metal Particle ◽

Small Metal Particles

In the Study of small metal particles the shape is a very Important parameter. Using electron microscopy Ino and Owaga(l) have studied the shape of twinned particles of gold. In that work electron diffraction and contrast (dark field) experiments were used to produce models of a crystal particle. In this work we report a method which can give direct information about the shape of an small metal particle in the amstrong- size range with high resolution. The diffraction pattern of a sample containing small metal particles contains in general several systematic and non- systematic reflections and a two-beam condition can not be used in practice. However a N-beam condition produces a reduced extinction distance. On the other hand if a beam is out of the bragg condition the effective extinction distance is even more reduced.

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