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Dictator games in the lab and in nature: External validity tested and investigated in Ugandan primary schools

Barr, Aibgail; Zeitlin, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper tests the external validity of a simple Dictator Game as a laboratory analogue for a naturally occurring policy-relevant decision-making context. In Uganda, where teacher absenteeism is a problem, primary school teachers' allocations to parents in a Dictator Game are positively but...

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An Investment Model of Social Capital with Empirical Application to Women`s Labour Market Outcomes in Urban China

Yueh, Linda Y. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

reflect and cause gender differences. Our original measures of social capital are created with a data set administered in … urban China in early 2000. We find that there are gender differences in the stock of social capital and returns within the …

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Rates of Return to Education by Gender in Pakistan

Aslam, Monazza - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in … estimates consistently reveal a sizeable gender asymmetry in economic returns to education, with returns to women`s education … education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and …

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Intrahousehold Allocation of Education Expenditure and Returns to Education: The Case of Sri Lanka

Himaz, Rozana - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between … paper argues that these household level decisions are rational because wage returns to junior and senior secondary education …

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The Price of Empowerment: Experimental Evidence on Land Titling in Tanzania

Dercon, Stefan; Ayalew, Daniel; Deininger, Klaus; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We report on a randomized field experiment using price incentives to address both economic and gender inequality in … of pro-poor price discrimination is justified even from a narrow budgetary perspective. In terms of gender inequality …, we find that even small price incentives for female co-titling achieve almost complete gender parity in land ownership …

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Aid and Fiscal Instability

Adam, Christopher; O'Connell, Stephen A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

We show that a combination of temporariness and spending pressure is intrinsic to the aid relationship. In our analysis, recipients rationally discount the pronouncements of donors about the duration of their commitments because in equilibrium they know that some donors will honor those...

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For Love or Reward? Characterising Preferences for Giving to Parents in an Experimental Setting

Porter, Maria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This paper examines the motivation for intergenerational transfers between adult children and their parents, and the nature of preferences for such giving behaviour, in an experimental setting. Participants in our experiment play a series of dictator games with parents and strangers, in which...

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Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society

Kingdon, Geeta; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

Using a South African data set, the paper poses six questions about the determinants of subjective well-being. Much of the paper is concerned with the role of relative concepts. We find that comparator income – measured as average income of others in the local residential cluster - enters the...

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Is Happiness Infectious?

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

The paper uses an appropriate survey from rural China to answer the question: Is happiness infectious, i.e. does the happiness of an individual depend positively on the happiness of their reference group? The evidence is consistent with this hypothesis, but the challenge is to solve the...

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Samaritans, Rotten Kids and Policy Conditionality

Federico, Giulio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

Donors who try to impose policy conditionality on countries receiving their aid commonly face confflicting incentives between using aid to induce income-increasing reforms and using aid to assist low-income countries: this confflict can lead to a time-consistency problem. This paper oÂÂ¤ers a...

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