When valuing market and non-market goods, using point estimates of willingness to pay (WTP) may generate biased results because people are often observed to have a range of acceptable values in mind. We investigate how individuals express their bids or WTP given uniform and skewed intervals of...

When valuing market and non-market goods, people are often observed to have a range of acceptable values in mind, due to e.g., “coherent arbitrariness”, rather than a point estimate as suggested by rational choice theory. This lack of a point estimate may lead to biased values of willingness...

What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and administrative failures introduce uncertainty about the...

What motivates individuals to become politicians? This is an important question in decentralized democracies, where local politicians play a key role in public goods provision. However, and in emerging economies, bureaucratic hurdles and administrative failures introduce uncertainty about the...

In emerging economies, pro-social policy outcomes may be prevented by bureaucratic inefficiency, capture by elected or non-elected office holders, or by other hurdles. For local citizens, uncertainty about the true cause of such failures often prevails. We study the pro-sociality of politicians'...

In emerging economies, pro-social policy outcomes may be prevented by bureaucratic inefficiency, capture by elected or non-elected office holders, or by other hurdles. For local citizens, uncertainty about the true cause of such failures often prevails. We study the pro-sociality of politicians'...