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I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I estimate a matrix with rows and columns which indicate different population groups and income sources respectively, with each element indicating the marginal change in the...
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We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of …
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Reducing gender inequality is a critically important development challenge, especially in countries with widespread and deep-rooted prejudices against women. In this study, we use a randomized control trial to examine whether facilitating Vietnamese men to reflect about gender equality can...
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, small and medium-sized enterprises using a lab-in-the-field experiment with small-business owners in Myanmar. The study is a …-in-the-field experiment comprised five behavioural games: dictator, bargaining, trust, public goods, and risk-preference elicitation. It was …
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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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We conduct a lab experiment to assess whether gender of dictators and recipients, and distributional preferences affect …
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The paper presents the results of a lab-in-the-field experiment in three South African townships located in the suburbs …
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We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as …
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survey experiment. In this way it aims to see whether individuals' fairness evaluations change across different levels of …
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This paper presents the findings from a feasibility study on the potential for developing a static tax-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania. The paper provides an account of the current tax-benefit system in Tanzania and introduces the survey dataset which could function as the...
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