TY - JOUR A1 - Beierl, Stefan A1 - Dodlova, Marina T1 - Public Works Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi JF - The European Journal of Development Research N2 - This paper investigates the relationship between Malawi’s largest and oldest publicworks programme (PWP) and social cohesion, specifically within-community coop-eration for the common good. Using both primary and secondary data, we show thatpublic works are associated with higher coordination activities and higher voluntary(unpaid) contributions to public goods, along both vertical ties (between communitymembers and local leaders) and horizontal ties (among community members). Espe-cially for school-building activities, voluntary inputs in the form of labour and otherin-kind contributions are higher in the presence of the PWP. Our results contrib-ute to a better understanding of the link between social protection programmes withcommunity-driven features and social cohesion. KW - Public works KW - Cash-for-work KW - Social protection KW - Cooperation for the common good KW - Coordination KW - Community meeting KW - Voluntary contributions Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022080712061894426936 VL - 2022 IS - 34 SP - 1264 EP - 1284 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER -