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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania

Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013

It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a...

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Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent

Barr, Abigail; Owens, Trudy; Perera, Ashira - 2017

Using a specially designed experiment, we investigate whether and how interdependence in risk exposure i.e., risk …

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Financial decision-making, gender and social norms in Zambia : preliminary report on the quantitative data generation, analysis and results

Barr, Abigail; Dekker, Marleen; Mwansa, Floyd; Zuze, … - 2020

This document presents the preliminary findings from the quantitative data generation and analysis conducted as part of the project "Financial decision-making, gender and social norms in Zambia". Using a series of specially designed behavioural experiments,we generated an extensive set of...

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2023

the causal relationship running from inequality to instability. Specifically, we conduct a laboratory experiment. In the … experiment, two groups are interacting with each other repeatedly and have an incentive to cooperate even though cooperation … comes at the cost of inter-group inequality. In the second half of the experiment, we vary the extent of the inequality …

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Does increasing inequality threaten social stability? : evidence from the lab

Barr, Abigail; Hochleitner, Anna; Sonderegger, Silvia - 2024 - [Revised version of 2023-13]

causal relationship running from inequality to social instability. We run a laboratory experiment in which two groups …

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