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On the basis of (mis)trust? : spousal trust and trustworthiness in household decision making: experimental evidence from India
Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021 - This version: April 11, 2021
This paper examines the role of spousal trust in intra-household decision making through its potential of inciting the … perspective, our findings have important implications for the design and evaluation of household-based (saving) interventions by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498329
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Spousal trust alignment and intra-household cooperation
Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2024 - This version: September 2024
experiment, these spouses randomly received either only a joint savings device (control) or, additionally, a device for … justifiably trusting their husbands), higher savings were achieved through wives' increased involvement in household decisions … higher savings. Our findings encourage household-based interventions to consider spouses' (mis)perceptions about intra-household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015064401
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The Causal Effect of Market Participation on Trust : An Experimental Investigation Using Randomized Control
Al-Ubaydli, Omar; Houser, Daniel; Nye, John V.; … - 2013
In randomized control laboratory experiments, we find that those primed to think about markets exhibit more trusting behavior. We randomly and unconsciously prime experimental participants to think about markets and trade. We then ask them to play a trust game involving an anonymous stranger. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177048
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Does war enhance or undermine other-regarding preferences and trust?
Holden, Stein Terje; Tilahun, Mesfin - 2024
Our study investigates how the devastating 2020-2022 Tigray War has affected the social preferences, reciprocity norms, and trust in a large sample of rural young adults in Tigray, Ethiopia, belonging to rural business groups. We rely on field experimental data with standardized incentivized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015100859
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Character or context : what explains behavioural dishonesty in low-income countries?
Ferreira, Ines A.; Jones, Sam; Mouco, Jorge - 2020
We run a lab-in-the-field experiment with 1,060 university students in Mozambique to examine the correlates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256621
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Are better-off households more unequal or less unequal?
Haddad, Lawrence James; Kanbur, Ravi - 1990
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000131341
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Eradicating women-hurting customs : what role for social engineering?
Platteau, Jean-Philippe; Camilotti, Guilia; Auriol, … - 2017
Social engineering refers to deliberate attempts, often under the form of legislative moves, to promote changes in customs and norms that hurt the interests of marginalized population groups. This paper explores the analytical conditions under which social engineering is more or less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663702
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IP Protection Games : Does Technology Type Matter For Entrepreneurial Behavior?
Campbell, Karen A. - 2013
This paper builds on an analytical tool for studying entrepreneurship in a new classical general equilibrium framework. The entrepreneurial economy model takes the consumer-producer economy model and makes explicit the role of the entrepreneur. This paper uses it to study entrepreneurial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184832
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A Model of Microfinance with Adverse Selection, Loan Default, and Self-Financing
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2014
We analyze a market for microfinance in a region of a developing nation in which all projects are either of high or low quality. There is adverse selection because only borrowers know whether their project is of high or low quality but the microfinance institutions (MFIs) do not. The MFIs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069676
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A Model of Microfinance with Adverse Selection, Loan Default, and Self-Financing
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2014
We analyze a market for microfinance in a region of a developing nation in which all projects are either of high or low quality. There is adverse selection because only borrowers know whether their project is of high or low quality but the microfinance institutions (MFIs) do not. The MFIs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203528