Title
Social Capital and Improved Stoves Usage Decisions in the Northern Peruvian Andes
Date Issued
01 February 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier
Abstract
This paper explores how village level technology usage patterns and bonding social capital (the strength of intra-communal links) mutually influence the individual usage decision of an improved stove in the Peruvian Andes. It shows that the individual usage likelihood is more responsive to village usage patterns if communal bonding links are relatively strong, and that bonding social capital discourages individual usage if the proportion of beneficiaries experiencing usage problems is relatively high. Usage problems were mainly related to faulty stove's materials, which were likely exogenous to households' characteristics. Social capital was measured before the intervention, which alleviates reverse causality issues. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
Start page
1
End page
17
Volume
54
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería, Tecnología
Etnología
Subjects
Publication version
Version of Record
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84883673072
Source
World Development
ISSN of the container
0305750X
Sponsor(s)
I thank the IDRC for providing financial support for this research and the Department of Cooperation Projects at Universidad de Piura (UDEP) and the NGO MIRHASPERU for facilitating me access to the 2003 Chalaco District Survey and the 2004 Stove Monitoring Report. I am very grateful to Nora Grados, Fernando Barranzuela, Jorge Viera, Gonzalo Urday, Gabriela Ortega, María Sofía Dunin and Andrés Carrasco for their valuable insights on the “Chalaco Program.” I specially thank Siwan Anderson, German Pupato, David Green, Patrick Francois, Kevin Milligan, Ashok Kotwal, Nicole Fortin, Sonia Laszlo, Kathy Baylis, Mushfiq Mobarak, Javier Escobal, Gilmar Zambrana, Johannes Schoder, and three anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions, as well as participants in the UBC Empirical Seminar, UDEP Economics Seminar, 43rd CEA Meetings, 5th CIREQ PhD. Conference, 2009 Chilean Economic Association Meetings, 2009 NEUDC conference, III UDEP Workshop for Young Economists and 2010 Bolivian Conference on Development Economics.
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