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Misperceived Social Norms : Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2018

Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives' labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in Riyadh and from a national...

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Justifying Dissent

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Egorov, Georgij V.; Haaland, Ingar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting dissenters' causes can increase the public expression of dissent by providing a "social cover" for voicing...

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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire : Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices

Duflo, Esther - 2004

We study resource allocation within households in Côte d'Ivoire. In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown. These different crops are differentially sensitive to particular kinds of...

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How Are Gender Norms Perceived?

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender norms on two distinct policy issues: 1) basic rights,...

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Using Randomization in Development Economics Research : A Toolkit

Duflo, Esther - 2006

This paper is a practical guide (a toolkit) for researchers, students and practitioners wishing to introduce randomization as part of a research design in the field. It first covers the rationale for the use of randomization, as a solution to selection bias and a partial solution to publication...

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Remedying Education : Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2005

Many efforts to improve school quality by adding school resources have proven to be ineffective. This paper presents the results of two experiments conducted in Mumbai and Vadodara, India, designed to evaluate ways to improve the quality of education in urban slums. A remedial education program...

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Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families : Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block

Duflo, Esther - 2005

This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with H&R Block, offering matching …

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The Role of Information and Social Interactions in Retirement Plan Decisions : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Duflo, Esther - 2002

This paper analyzes a randomized experiment to shed light on the role of information and social interactions in … employees' decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account (TDA) retirement plan within a large university. The experiment … university, by promising a monetary reward for attendance. The experiment more than tripled the attendance rate of these treated …

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Status Goods : Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

platinum credit cards to high-income customers. In a first experiment, we show that demand for the platinum card greatly … social status. In a second experiment, we provide evidence of positional externalities from the consumption of these status … goods. The final experiment shows that increasing self-esteem causally reduces demand for status goods. We infer that part …

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'Acting Wife' : Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017

observability. A supplementary experiment asked students to make choices over hypothetical jobs before discussing their choices in …

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