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Using Incentivized Games and Networks to Uncover Hidden Impacts: The Case of Community Driven Development Programs

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  • Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul
  • Stein, Daniel
  • Vera-Hernández, Marcos

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Despite evidence that social interactions build social capital, evaluations show limited impacts of Community Driven Development (CDD) programs on social capital. We investigate whether this puzzle could result from an excessive reliance on surveys to measure social capital. Our study, in the context of a clustered randomized CDD in Nepal, initially indicates no impacts using surveys-based measures. However, incentivized lab-in-the-field games reveal increased cooperation, while network analysis unveils closer household connections. This highlights the sensitivity of program evaluations to social capital measurement choices and contributes to ongoing debates about empirically capturing social capital.

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  • Rodríguez-Lesmes, Paul & Stein, Daniel & Vera-Hernández, Marcos, 2024. "Using Incentivized Games and Networks to Uncover Hidden Impacts: The Case of Community Driven Development Programs," CEPR Discussion Papers 18990, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:18990
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    Social capital; Lab-in-the-field games; Social Networks;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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