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Crowding-out or crowding-in? : heterogeneous effects of insurance on solidarity
Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Henning, Karla; … - 2020
We analyze whether the availability of formal insurance products affects informal solidarity transfers in two … minimizes strategic concerns. The introduction of an insurance treatment alters solidarity in both experiments. We find crowding …-out effects in the first setting with strategic motives, while there are even crowding-in effects due to insurance availability in …
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Insurance and solidarity : evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Cambodia
Lenel, Friederike; Steiner, Susan - 2017
This paper investigates the crowding out of informal support among peers by the introduction of formal insurance. We … show that the availability of insurance changes people's intrinsic motivation to support others. We report results from a … endowment. It is varied whether they can purchase an insurance before the loss is determined. The other half of the subjects can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731916
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Land Rental Markets : Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Acampora, Michelle; Casaburi, Lorenzo; Willis, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental evidence on land market participation is virtually non-existent. We randomly allocate subsidies for agricultural...
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Parental paternalism and patience
Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404530
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Parental Paternalism and Patience
Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420377
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Parental paternalism and patience
Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021
We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434974
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What's advertising content worth? : evidence from a consumer credit marketing field experiment
Bertrand, Marianne; Karlan, Dean; Mullainathan, Sendhil; … - 2009
Firms spend billions of dollars each year advertising consumer products in order to influence demand. Much of these outlays are on the creative design of advertising content. Creative content often uses nuances of presentation and framing that have large effects on consumer decision making in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811505
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Women, children and patience : experimental evidence from Indian villages
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2009
In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861619
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Experimental evidence on credit constraints
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Uribe, Claudia - 2016
Credit constraints are central to development economics theory. However, there is scant direct evidence that supports the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption changes after an unexpected income shock. Such changes can also result from myopic behavior or...
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Linking Savings Behavior, Confidence and Individual Feedback : A Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2019
In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive effects on various outcomes such as health, education, and agricultural investments. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858261