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Envy and Agricultural Innovation: An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket; Zizzo, Daniel John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

The underlying motivations for envy or related social preferences and their impact on agricultural innovations are examined by combining data from money burning experimental game and household survey from Ethiopia. In the first stage of the money burning experimental game, income inequality is...

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Intra-household efficiency: An experimental study from Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

Using data from experimental games and household survey from 1,200 married couples in three sites in Ethiopia, this paper uses different versions of a voluntary contribution mechanism to test for household efficiency. The experimental and econometric analyses provide many interesting results...

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Risk Pooling, Risk Preferences, and Social Networks

Barr, Abigail; Attanasio, Orazio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

Using data from a field experiment conducted in seventy Colombian municipalities, we investigate who pools risk with …

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Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia

Barr, Abigail; Serra, Danila; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social physchologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also important. In recent work, economic theorists have started to build psychological factors, like...

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Risk Sharing, Commitment and Information: An experimental analysis

Barr, Abigail; Genicot, Garance - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

This paper describes and analyzes the results of a unique field experiment especially designed to test the effects of … the groups formed within our experiment with the real life risk sharing networks in a few villages allows us to test the … external validity of our experiment and suggests that the results are salient to our understanding of risk sharing arrangements …

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When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Fafchamps, Marcel; Quinn, Simon; McKenzie, David; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

Standard models of investment predict that credit-constrained firms should grow rapidly when given additional capital, and that how this capital is provided should not affect decisions to invest in the business or consume the capital. We randomly gave cash and in-kind grants to male- and...

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Rational and Biased Trust

Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective model of trustworthiness or are biased. Combining experimental and survey data, I find that Ghanaian workers appropriately take account of the religiousness of trustees, but...

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Risk Pooling, Commitment, and Information: An experimental test of two fundamental assumptions

Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

information that underpin current models of risk pooling. A specially designed economic experiment involving 678 subjects across … be onducted the networks of risk pooling contracts constructed during the experiment and the networks existing in real …

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Wages and Reciprocity in the Workplace

Barr, Abigail; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

We explore the role of reciprocity in wage determination by combining experimental and survey data. The experiment is …

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Trust and Expected Trustworthiness: An experimental investigation

Barr, Abigail - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

An economic experiment involving separate sessions in 24 small, tightly knit communities reveals that trust is higher …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604976