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risk_sharing

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DevelopmentRCT
Kinship Referral Distortion in Risk-Sharing Networks
Under flat referral pay structures, referrers systematically prioritized family and relatives over skilled non-relatives; introducing high performance pay offset these social network pressures by reducing relative referrals by 7 percentage points.
Economics (general)RCT
Social Network Risk-Sharing Distortion
Over 35% of reported gifts and high-value loans occurred between relatives compared to only 2% between coworkers; unincentivized workers were 7 percentage points more likely to refer relatives (baseline <15%) than workers facing performance-contingent pay.