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Gender priming in solidarity games: The Philippine context
Tacneng, Ruth Cadaoas; Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2021
What is the effect of gender priming on solidarity behaviour? We explore a two-player solidarity game where players can … insure each other against the risk of losses. In the utility function, priming is represented as the 'change in weight' given … treatment that involves reminding subjects of their gender. We found that, without priming, there were no statistically …
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Consolidating behavioural economics and rational choice theory: Insights from inequality research
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2021
Using illustrations from research on inequality, this paper offers evidence on the strengths of 'behavioural synthesis', i.e. the reconciliation between neoclassical and behavioural economics. We compare how theoretical models of absolute and relative inequality have evolved from assumptions of...
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Legal empowerment and group-based inequality
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2018
Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943846
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Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality: An experimental analysis
Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert - 2016
We analyse policy makers' incentives to fight corruption under different institutional qualities. We find that 'public officials', even when non-corrupt, significantly distort anti-corruption institutions by choosing a lower detection probability when this probability applies to their own...
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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
) recipients. Finally, most dictators can be classified as egalitarian, meritocratic or selfish. They invoke these fairness views …
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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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Using case studies to explore the external validity of 'complex' development interventions
Woolcock, Michael - 2013
Rising standards for accurately inferring the impact of development projects has not been matched by equivalently rigorous procedures for guiding decisions about whether and how similar results might be expected elsewhere. These 'external validity' concerns are especially pressing for 'complex'...
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