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The authors conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. By keeping the intrinsic…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Central AmericaInitiatives certifying that farms and firms adhere to predefined environmental and social welfare production standards are increasingly popular. According to proponents, they create financial…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Central AmericaThis paper investigates the use of charges and standards in dealing with a common externality, plastic litter from shopping bags in Botswana. The country passed a plastic bag tax (effective 2007) to…
| EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaThis paper evaluates the ex-post impact of adopting improved groundnut varieties on crop income and rural poverty in rural Uganda. The study utilizes cross-sectional farm household data collected in…
| EfD Discussion Paper | EthiopiaLand degradation is a major problem undermining land productivity in the highlands of Ethiopia. This study explores the factors that affect farm households’ decisions at the plot level to invest in…
| EfD Discussion Paper | EthiopiaUnique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay…
| EfD Discussion Paper | SwedenIn this paper, the relation between poverty indicators and demographic variables is explored using household survey data from two regions in Northern Tanzania (the Lake Victoria area). The empirical…
| EfD Discussion Paper | TanzaniaThe authors looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden, EthiopiaImproving soil carbon through conservation agriculture in developing countries may generate some private benefits to farmers, as well as sequester carbon emissions, which is a positive externality to…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden, KenyaDoes Relative Position Matter in Poor Societies? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
The authors investigated attitudes toward positionality among rural farmers in northern Ethiopia, using a tailored two-part survey experiment. On average, they found positional concerns neither in…
| EfD Discussion Paper | Sweden, Ethiopia