The most successful dissertation (in development economics) this year was Age Set vs. Kin: Culture and Financial Ties in East Africa ,https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/awaambraseck/files/complete_draft_102021.pdf

by Jacob Moscona and Awa Seck.

3) Explain, in English, what the difference is between an Age set and Kin based ties

4) Explain the Hunger Safety Net Program and why you might expect it to have different effects depending on whether the society is age set and kin-based.

5) Explain the empirical strategy they use, and the various ways they try to show their results are causal and not biased

6) Thinking about the knowledge you have about the world, are there any other kinds of social networks that you think would affect how a program like this might have spillovers onto non-targeted populations?