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Is Transparency an Effective Anti-Corruption Strategy? Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
Peisakhin, Leonid V.; Pinto, Paul - 2011
proposition that greater transparency and voice lowers corruption even in highly hierarchical and unequal societies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187481
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Do Attitudes Towards Corruption Differ Across Cultures? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore
Cameron, Lisa A.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, Nisvan; … - 2014
This paper examines cultural differences in attitudes towards corruption by analysing individual-decision making in a … corrupt experimental environment. Attitudes towards corruption play a critical role in the persistence of corruption. Our … allow us to explore whether, in environments characterized by lower levels of corruption, there is both a lower propensity …
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Do non-monetary prices target the poor? : evidence from a field experiment in India
Hoffmann, Bridget - 2016
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration
Lowe, Matt - 2020
I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841733
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Do Non-Monetary Prices Target the Poor? Evidence from a Field Experiment in India
Hoffmann, Bridget - 2017
This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958078
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs. A key feature of the program was its ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961949
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Endowment Effects in the Field : Evidence from India's IPO Lotteries
Anagol, Santosh - 2017
We study a unique field experiment in India in which 1.5 million stock investors face lotteries for the random allocation of shares. We find that the winners of these randomly assigned initial public offering (IPO) lottery shares are significantly more likely to hold them than lottery losers 1,...
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Motivating Migrants : A Field Experiment on Financial Decision-Making in Transnational Households
Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2014
We randomly assigned male migrant workers in Qatar invitations to a motivational workshop aimed at improving financial habits and encouraging joint decision-making with spouses back home in India. 13-17 months later, we surveyed migrants and wives to estimate intent-to-treat impacts in their...
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Pro-poor service delivery and social identity : an experimental investigation
Mueller, Ulrike - 2012
India addressed the requirement for pro-poor service delivery in rural regions by introducing decentralization and affirmative action policies. In order to measure the social preferences of local decision makers, we conducted field experiments which simulated the selection of needy beneficiaries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009541854
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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs. A key feature of the program was its ability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602559