• DOI:10.1086/665600
Corpus ID: 1917204

Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya

@article{Fafchamps2012SelfHelpGA,
  title={Self-Help Groups and Mutual Assistance: Evidence from Urban Kenya},
  author={M. Fafchamps and Eliana La Ferrara},
  journal={Economic Development and Cultural Change},
  year={2012},
  volume={60},
  pages={707 - 733}
}

• M. Fafchamps, Eliana La Ferrara
• Published 2012
• Economics
• Economic Development and Cultural Change

This article examines the incomes of individuals who have joined self-help groups in poor neighborhoods of Nairobi. Self-help groups are often advocated as a way of facilitating income pooling. We find that incomes are indeed more correlated among individuals in the same group than among individuals who belong to different groups. Using an original methodology, we test whether this correlation is due to self-selection of similar individuals into the same groups. We find that this correlation is… Expand

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