Showing 1 - 10 of 951
took place in urban areas in Kenya. We find that youth, in general, prefer to work in jobs that have the attributes of …This paper presents the main results of three Discrete Choice Experiments designed to estimate youth preferences for … youth demand to facilitate access to wage employment include jobs search assistance and training on soft-skills, followed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843726
In this study we experimentally investigate whether solidarity, which is a crucial base for informal insurance arrangements in developing countries, is sensitive to the extent to which individuals can influence their risk exposure. With slum dwellers of Nairobi our design measures subjects'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948691
We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to examine the effectiveness of accountability systems that rely on patient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925519
, small delays were introduced between the time of the experiment and the soonest payment. We conduct a laboratory experiment … in Kenya in which we elicit time and risk preference parameters from 291 participants, using convex time budgets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001308
presents results of an experimental validation conducted among low-income individuals in Nairobi, Kenya.We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867136
money as a tool to promote agricultural investment. For this purpose, we designed and conducted a field experiment with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857838
Who uses mobile money? What is mobile money used for? This paper describes the mobile money adoption patterns following the experimental introduction of mobile money for the first time in rural areas of Southern Mozambique. We use a combination of administrative and household survey data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842055
We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a … longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, creating plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993951
Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948633
About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research hasexploded in scope and depth. It has become clear that studying the development of economic behavior and its determinants is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906523