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Partner Selection into Policy Relevant Field Experiments

Belot, Michele; James, Jonathan - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2013

-relevant experiments. We document and test the implications of self-selection in the context of randomised policy experiment we conducted … the magnitude is small. Moreover, We do not find signifi cant di erences in the treatment e ffects of the experiment … between variables which, albeit to a mild degree, are correlated with selection into the experiment. To our knowledge, this is …

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Basis Risk and Compound-Risk Aversion: Evidence from a WTP Experiment in Mali

Elabed, Ghada; Carter, Michael R. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013

We present a novel way to understand the low uptake of index insurance using the interlinked concepts of ambiguity and compound-lottery aversion. Noting that the presence of basis risk makes index insurance a compound lottery, we derive an expression of the willingness to pay (WTP) to eliminate...

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Neighborhood Effects on Social Behavior: The Case of Irrigated and Rainfed Farmers in Bohol, the Philippines

Tsusaka, Takuji W.; Kajisa, Kei; Pede, Valerien O.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012

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Mistakes, Closure and Endowment Effect in Laboratory Experiments

Ratan, Anmol - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2012

treatment. The procedures in our experiment allow us to circumvent the critique of altered expectations. Our results call for a …

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Can Defaults Save the Climate? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Carbon Offsetting Programs

Araña, Jorge; León, Carmelo - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 54 (2013) 4, pp. 613-626

presented. In this paper we present results of a field experiment on the contributions to carbon offsetting programs under two …

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Allais for all: Revisiting the paradox in a large representative sample

Huck, Steffen; Müller, Wieland - In: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 44 (2012) 3, pp. 261-293

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Infiltration and planting pits for improved water management and maize yield in semi-arid Zimbabwe

Nyakudya, Innocent Wadzanayi; Stroosnijder, Leo; … - In: Agricultural Water Management 141 (2014) C, pp. 30-46

Realising that rainwater harvesting (RWH) improves crop productivity, smallholder farmers in semi-arid Zimbabwe modified contour ridges traditionally used for rainwater management by digging infiltration pits inside contour ridge channels in order to retain more water in crop fields. However,...

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Experimental methods: Extra-laboratory experiments-extending the reach of experimental economics

Charness, Gary; Gneezy, Uri; Kuhn, Michael A. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 91 (2013) C, pp. 93-100

We propose a new organizing scheme for classifying types of experiments. In addition to the standard categories of laboratory and field experiments, we suggest a new category: “extra-laboratory experiments.” These are experiments that have the same spirit as laboratory experiments, but are...

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Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru

Moreno, Martín; Ñopo, Hugo; Saavedra, Jaime; Torero, … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 315-328

Inspired by audit studies methodology, we monitored a job intermediation service in Peru to detect gender and racial discrimination in hiring. We capture individual racial information using the approach of Ñopo, Saavedra, and Torero (2007), enabling a richer exploration of racial differences....

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Corruption, investments and contributions to public goods: Experimental evidence from rural Liberia

Beekman, Gonne; Bulte, Erwin; Nillesen, Eleonora - In: Journal of Public Economics 115 (2014) C, pp. 37-47

We analyze how corruption affects incentives to invest or contribute to public goods. We obtain a proxy for corruption among Liberian community leaders by keeping track of a flow of inputs associated with a development intervention, measuring these inputs before and after giving them in custody...

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