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Understanding farmers' valuation of agricultural insurance: Evidence from Viet Nam

King, Michael; Singh, Anuj Pratap - 2018

We employ a novel approach to investigate the reasons for a low demand for agricultural insurance. We confirm that farmers systematically undervalue agricultural insurance. First, we find that private transfers, mainly from family members, explain under-valuation of agricultural insurance....

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Updating great expectations: The effect of peer salary information on own-earnings forecasts

Jones, Sam; Santos, Ricardo - 2020

How jobseekers set their earnings expectations is central to job search models. To study this process, we track the … elasticity of own-wage expectations to this news of around 7 per cent in the short term and 16 per cent over the long term, which … information, and valence of the news shape how wage expectations are updated. We recommend institutionalizing public information …

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Character or context: What explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?

Ferreira, Ines A.; Jones, Sam; Mouco, Jorge - 2020

We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of behavioural dishonesty, distinguishing between intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Using an incentivized dice game, which yields direct estimates of the propensity to cheat, we find that...

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Key behavioural characteristics of small-business owners: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Myanmar

Rand, John; Castro Rodriguez, Paula; Tarp, Finn; … - 2019

This study investigates the role of owners' personal preferences and behaviour in determining the success of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a complement to a 2017 quantitative survey conducted...

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Conflicting measures of poverty and inadequate saving by the poor: The role of status-driven utility function

Marjit, Sugata - 2012

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and nutrition-based measures of poverty. Moreover, it can explain why the poor tend to save less, an established empirical fact in the developing countries. The result is independent of...

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Gender and distributional preferences: Experimental evidence from India

Sharma, Smriti - 2015

We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect allocations in a modified dictator game where both parties perform a cognitive task and the resulting pie to be split is the sum of both parties' earnings. Our key results are...

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Can gender differences in distributional preferences explain gender gaps in competition?

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2017

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as preference for favourable inequality affect competitive choices differently among males and females. We find that selection into competitive environments is: (a) negatively...

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What drives parental investments in early childhood? Experimental evidence from a video intervention in Rwanda

Justino, Patricia; Leone, Marinella; Rolla, Pierfrancesco; … - 2023

This paper investigates the causal impact of a randomized video intervention designed to study the determinants of parental time investments in early childhood among low-income parents. We designed and screened a video that provided information and conveyed persuasive messages about the...

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The information content of the yield spread about future inflation in South Africa

Ntshakala, Manqoba; Harris, Laurence - 2018

The proposition that inflation expectations can be extracted as inflation predictions from the government bond yield …

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Looking like a state: Techniques of persistent failure in state capability for implementation

Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael; Andrews, Matt - 2012

highly unrealistic expectations on fledging systems. We conclude with some suggestions for sabotaging these techniques. …

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