Exchanging Land for Solidarity: Solidarity Transfers among Voluntarily Resettled and Non‐resettled Land‐Reform Beneficiaries
在柬埔寨农村通过实地实验发现，自愿搬迁的农民比未搬迁的农民向同村人转移的钱少得多，表明搬迁初期家庭更脆弱。
Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use “lab‐in‐the‐field experiments” in Cambodian villages to study solidarity in established and newly resettled communities. Our experimental participants were part of an agricultural land‐distribution project for which they signed up voluntarily. Half of our sample voluntarily resettled one and a half years before this study. Playing a version of the “solidarity game,” we identify the effect of voluntary resettlement on willingness to help anonymous fellow villagers. We find that resettled farmers transfer substantially less money to their fellow villagers than farmers who have not resettled. Our experimental results indicate greater vulnerability on the part of resettled households in the initial years after resettlement.