We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Burkina Faso eliciting subjective exchange rates of the spouses payoff to ones own payoff for those in monogamous and polygamous relationships. Values of these exchange rates suggest significant heterogeneity among households in the consumption...

Maternal nutrition during pregnancy can have significant implications for a child’s prenatal growth and development, and undernutrition experienced during the prenatal period increases the risk of early childhood morbidity and mortality and can permanently impair a child’s physical growth...

How people process information about others' moral behavior has important implications for understanding the respective peer effects and the effect of social nudges. In this paper, I investigate this updating process of norm beliefs regarding choices when facing monetary-morality tradeoff. In a...

In this paper, we first conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment of a simple one-shot trust game among villagers in a rural county located in northern China. Comparing individuals who have and have not yet opened but are interested in opening their own online stores, which is, to a great extent,...

Ranking information is often provided to improve task performance, yet its welfare and spillover effects are rarely measured. We measure these effects in a controlled laboratory experiment, in which participants conduct a simple cognitive task and report their willingness-to-pay (WTP) to receive...

The future is inherently more uncertain than the present. Existing literature has shown that people act impatiently or in a time-inconsistent manner at least partly because of their aversion to future risk. While such intuition could be fully captured by standard economic models, the current...

Natural disasters give rise to loss and damage and may affect subjective expectations about the prevalence and severity of future disasters. These expectations might then in turn shape individuals’ investment behaviors, potentially affecting their incomes in subsequent years. As part of an...

Does social learning and subsequent private information processing differ depending on whether the observer shares the same group identity as the predecessor whose actions are observed? In this paper, we conduct a lab experiment to answer this question, in which subjects first observe a social...