BetaBetaDataset
To measure the economic impacts of social pressures to share income with relatives and neighbours in rural western Kenya.
The survey data accompanies the paper, "Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence From Village Economies," published in the Review of Economic Studies, (2016) 83 (1): 231-268.
Scope of the study: age, amount of money invested, number of household members employed, number of close relatives attending the experiment, number of close kin in the village, community groups in the village, wages, budget, religion, education level, employment, farm household, fertilizers usage, ethnic group, livestock and basic household commodities.
Sample survey and the experiments were conducted in 26 rural, agricultural communities in western Kenya.