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Three essays in empirical and experimental development economics : pro-social behavior, monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Asiedu, Edward - 2014
The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the … methods. Chapter 1 examines corruption (anti-social behavior) across Sub-Saharan Africa. In this chapter, we consider the … micro-economic determinants of corruption behavior and provides implications for institutions. In addition, the 2004 World …
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Corruption, taxation, and tax evasion
Alm, James; Liu, Yongzheng - 2018
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Sanctioning regimes and chief quality : evidence from Liberia
Beekman, Gonne; Nillesen, Eleonora; Voors, Maarten - 2018
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Can Corruption be Studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment
Armantier, Olivier; Boly, Amadou - 2014
This paper makes an attempt at testing the external validity of corruption experiments by moving from the lab in a … environments the probability to accept the bribe. Finally, we identify several micro-determinants of corruption (age, religiousness …
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Eat widely, vote wisely : lessons from a campaign against vote buying in Uganda
Blattman, Christopher; Larreguy, Horacio; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2024
We study a large-scale intervention designed by civil society organizations to reduce vote buying in Uganda’s 2016 elections. We study this intervention in light of a model where incumbents benefit from a first-mover and valence advantage, vote buying and campaigning are complementary, and...
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A multimodal social signal processing approach to team interactions
Lehmann-Willenbrock, Nale; Hung, Hayley - In: Organizational research methods : ORM 27 (2024) 3, pp. 477-515
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Gender norms, violence and adolescent girls' trajectories: Evidence from a field experiment in India
Andrew, Alison; Krutikova, Sonya; Smarrelli, Gabriela; … - 2022
Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that go against the status quo - to remain in school longer or...
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Impatience and credit behavior : evidence from a field experiment
Meier, Stephan (contributor); Sprenger, Charles (contributor) - 2007
This paper tests whether heterogeneity of time preferences can explain individual credit behavior. In a field experiment targeting individuals from low-to-moderate income households, we measure individual time preferences through choice experiments, and then match these time preference measures...
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How much is a friend worth? : Directed altruism and enforced reciprocity in social networks
Leider, Stephen; Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya; Do, … - 2007
We conduct field experiments in a large real-world social network to examine why decision-makers treat their friends more generously than strangers. Subjects are asked to divide a surplus between themselves and named partners at varying social distances, but only one of these decisions is...
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Innovation: zwischen Steuerung und Zufall : theoretische Grundlagen des Forschungsprojektes "Innovation Dynamics in Practice"
Kaudela-Baum, Stephanie; Scheiber, Lukas; Holzer, Jacqueline - 2008
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