Rosca Participation in Benin: A Commitment Issue

In the light of first-hand data from a Beninese urban household survey in Cotonou, we investigate several motives aiming to explain participation in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations. We provide anecdotal pieces of evidence, descriptive statistics, Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) r...

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Autores: Dagnelie, Olivier, Lemay-Boucher, P.
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Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
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spelling Rosca Participation in Benin: A Commitment IssueDagnelie, OlivierLemay-Boucher, P.jel:O17jel:O16In the light of first-hand data from a Beninese urban household survey in Cotonou, we investigate several motives aiming to explain participation in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations. We provide anecdotal pieces of evidence, descriptive statistics, Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) regressions and matching estimates which tend to indicate that most individuals use their participation in a rosca as a device to commit themselves to save money and to deal with self-control problems. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.We would like to thank the CRED and the National Bank of Belgium for their financial support. Dagnelie thanks the support of the Barcelona Economics Program of CREAPeer ReviewedBlackwell Publishing2012201220122012info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://hdl.handle.net/10261/53096reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/530962026-05-22T06:33:51Z
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title Rosca Participation in Benin: A Commitment Issue
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title_full Rosca Participation in Benin: A Commitment Issue
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description In the light of first-hand data from a Beninese urban household survey in Cotonou, we investigate several motives aiming to explain participation in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations. We provide anecdotal pieces of evidence, descriptive statistics, Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML) regressions and matching estimates which tend to indicate that most individuals use their participation in a rosca as a device to commit themselves to save money and to deal with self-control problems. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
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