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Motivation crowding theory and pro-environmental behavior: Experimental evidence
Rommel, Jens; Buttmann, Vera; Liebig, Georg; … - In: Economics Letters 129 (2015) C, pp. 42-44
Behavioral economists have argued that incentives can backfire. In a field experiment, we distribute “no junk mail …
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Combating Deforestation? – Impacts of Improved Stove Dissemination on Charcoal Consumption in Urban Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
With 2.7 billion people relying on woodfuels for cooking in developing countries, the dissemination of improved cooking stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an effective instrument to combat deforestation particularly in arid countries. This paper evaluates the impacts of an ICS dissemination...
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Development Aid and Agriculture
Herdt, Robert W. - In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics
This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture ("agricultural aid") is effective. It argues that development assistance is continually changing as the ascendant visions of strong global leaders interact with theories of economic growth and...
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Fear of the Dark? – How Access to Electric Lighting Affects Security Attitudes and Nighttime Activities in Rural Senegal
Bensch, Gunther; Peters, Jörg; Sievert, Maximiliane - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Providing access to electricity is widely considered as a precondition for socio-economic development in rural areas of developing countries. While electrification interventions are often expected to reduce poverty through productive uses for income generating purposes, the reality in rural...
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Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects
Maffioli, Alessandro; Winters, Paul; Salazar, Lina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The purpose of this guideline is to provide suggestions on designing impact evaluations for agricultural projects, particularly projects that directly target farmers, and seek to improve agricultural production, productivity and profitability. Specific issues in evaluating agricultural projects...
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Valuing casualty risk reductions from estimated baseline risk
Veisten, Knut; Flügel, Stefan; Rizzi, Luis I.; … - In: Research in Transportation Economics 43 (2013) 1, pp. 50-61
Stated choice studies have been applied regularly to the valuation of time savings and other attributes of travelling as perceived by individuals. In such experiments, respondents often provide reference levels for the attributes and the hypothetical choices presented to them are pivoted around...
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Fair farming: Preferences for fair labor certification using four elicitation methods
Drichoutis, Andreas C.; Vassilopoulos, Achilleas; Lusk, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
High profile cases of exploitative labor practices have increased concerns over agricultural working conditions. However, it is unclear whether and to what extent the public is willing to trade-off fair working conditions for higher prices and food imports. We implement a large-scale survey to...
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Does Government Regulation Complement Existing Community Efforts to Support Cooperation? Evidence from Field Experiments in Colombia
Lopez, Maria Claudia; Murphy, James J.; Spraggon, John M.; … - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2012
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Leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia
Jack, B. Kelsey; Recalde, María P. - In: Journal of Public Economics 122 (2015) C, pp. 80-93
We conduct a controlled field experiment in 52 communities in rural Bolivia to investigate the effect that local …
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From the lab to the field: An experimental investigation of the provision of a club good
Bchir, Mohamed Ali - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 51 (2014) C, pp. 57-67
the issue of the provision of club goods, and no studies have specifically explored a field case. In this experiment, a … membership fee is introduced to improve the successful provision of a threshold collective good. The experiment began in the … managing an irrigation system. In the laboratory, the experiment reveals that the club good setting significantly increases the …
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