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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad
Jedwab, Remi; Haslop, Federico; Zarate, Roman; … - 2023
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change (CC) largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, i.e. CC as defined by the IPCC (2013), have been studied relatively less, especially in...
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The gender education gap in China: the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009
We investigate girls' school dropout rates, bringing forward a novel variable: access to water. We hypothesise that a girl's education suffers when her greater water need for female hygiene purposes after menarche is not met because her household has poor access to water. For testing we use data...
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Got water? Social divisions and access to public goods in rural India
Balasubramaniam, Divya; Chatterjee, Santanu; Mustard, … - 2011
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. Studies linking social fragmentation to public goods usually aggregate different types of...
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003
period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay : An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Villeval, Marie-Claire; Eriksson, Tor - 2004
experiment that analyzes the influence of other-regarding preferences on sorting and incentives. Experimental evidence shows that …
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; … - 2003
representative behavioral data from a social dilemma experiment. We identify which survey questions intended to elicit people's trust … correlate well with behaviorally exhibited trust in the experiment. People above the age of 65, highly skilled workers and …
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Punishing Free-Riders : How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2004
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments show that people will punish free riders, even at considerable cost. To examine the implications of agents who...
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
altruism. Instead, we posit that social reciprocity is a triggered normative response. Our experiment confirms the existence of …
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Do single-sex classes affect exam scores? An experiment in a coeducational university
Booth, Alison L.; Cardona-Sosa, Lina; Nolen, Patrick - 2013
We examine the effect of single-sex classes on the pass rates, grades, and course choices of students in a coeducational university. We randomly assign students to all-female, all-male, and coed classes and, therefore, get around the selection issues present in other studies on single-sex...
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Experimental evidence on the effects of home computers on academic achievement among schoolchildren
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robinson, Jonathan - 2013
conducting the largest-ever field experiment involving the random provision of free computers for home use to students. 1 …,123 schoolchildren grades 6-10 in 15 California schools participated in the experiment. Although the program significantly increased …
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