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Experimental approaches in development and poverty alleviation

Rodgers, Yana; Bebbington, Anthony; Boone, Catherine; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 127 (2020), pp. 1-6

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Pro-Poor Groundwater Development : The Case of the Barind Experiment in Bangladesh

Banerjee, Partha Sarathi; De Silva, Sanjiv - 2020

The Barind region, a water-stressed area in northwest Bangladesh, had an underdeveloped agricultural economy and high levels of poverty until two projects revitalized the area with enhanced groundwater irrigation. The Barind Integrated Area Development Project in 1985 and Barind Multipurpose...

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Economists Owe Ecology an Apology

Zetland, David - 2013

This apology is neither a wholesale rejection of economic thought and perspective nor an admission of error in our understanding of ecological values or human impacts on the environment. Life is complex. It's an apology for the unintended damage that's resulted from misapplying economic ideas:...

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Investigating Herding Behavior in an Experimental Setup

Dalmia, Vinayak - 2014

theoretical propositions were put to test. The broad results from this experiment were not inconsistent with the theory. Further …

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Do Procedures Matter in Fairness Allocations? Experimental Evidence in Mixed Gender Pairings

Dasgupta, Utteeyo - 2011

Does the procedure of entitlement affect fairness perceptions? We use a dictator game to study the question in mixed gender pairs. In our experiments, we vary the process of entitlement across treatments. Allocators in our dictator game can inherit an amount without any effort, earn an amount...

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Using experimental economics to measure social capital and predict financial decisions

Karlan, Dean - 2005

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2008

reduce the current and the future yield for both others and themselves. Accordingly, economic theory predicts that more … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …

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Can Hypothetical Time Discounting Rates Predict Actual Behaviour : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Bonan, Jacopo - 2017

link between these measures and actual economic behaviour. An experiment was conducted in the city of Thies, in Senegal … findings of this experiment provide an innovative comparison between real choices, and choices made in the presence of …

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Stability of Experimental and Survey Measures of Risk, Time, and Social Preferences : A Review and Some New Results

Chuang, Yating - 2015

Underlying preferences are often considered to be persistent, and are important inputs into economic models. We first conduct an extensive review of the disparate literature studying the stability of preferences measured in experiments. Then, we test the stability of individuals' choices in...

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2021

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