A growing literature associates poverty with biases in decision-making. We investigate this link in a sample of over 3 …,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, who participated in a series of experiments involving the opportunity to exchange randomly … constraints increase decision stakes, we also show that trading probabilities increase when the value of the items involved is …

higher levels of poverty. …

.3 Simulation Results -- 4.4 Welfare Simulations -- References -- Chapter 5: The Case of Zambia -- 5.1 The Household Survey Data … -- 5.2 Food and Cash Crops in Zambia -- 5.3 Simulation Results -- 5.4 Welfare Simulations -- References -- Chapter 6: The …

-in-the-field and a natural field experiment to elicit cooperation levels in villages that lie in the direct proximity of two LSAIs and …. Smallholders who have worked on large-scale farms also show greater levels of cooperation than those who have no such work … natural field experiment. Taken together, these results suggest that beyond direct effects on employment, LSAIs yield positive …

and agricultural production, we conducted a two-year randomized controlled trial with small-scale farmers in rural Zambia …