We use a laboratory experiment with a focus on communication frequency and content to explore social learning. The experiment varied group composition by ability and included a randomized information treatment. We examine how information about own and peers' abilities affects communication...

We implement a public goods experiment in Central Malawi that asks small-scale farmers to contribute to the cost of a soil test, the results of which provide public information with private value. By randomly varying the plot selected for soil testing within each village, we examine the role of...

This paper documents the role of village fairness norms in land markets. We establish a strong and robust relationship between experimentally elicited village-level fairness norms and land rental markets across 250 villages in Malawi. Stronger fairness norms correlate with a tighter range in...

This paper introduces a new primary dataset on dowry payments in rural India. A novel feature of the data is that in addition to eliciting actual dowry payments, we also asked rural Indian households how much dowry they expected to pay/receive for each of their currently unmarried children....

Agricultural extension services can play an important role in increasing farmer yields and incomes yet evidence of the effectiveness of extension services in Sub-Saharan Africa has been mixed. We study farmers learning about agricultural technologies using a (quasi) randomized controlled trial...

Fertilizer use remains below recommended rates in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, contributing to poor crop yields and poverty. Farmers voice suspicion that available fertilizer is often adulterated, but these concerns are not backed by reliable evidence. In fact, an insight from industry but absent...

Top incomes in India have been rising sharply, relative to incomes in the rest of the distribution. In this paper, we show that this phenomenon has resulted in a delay in female marriage. Our analysis takes advantage of variation in earnings distributions across narrowly defined marriage...