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This paper examines how gender differences in behavioural preferences affect the gender wage gap in Vietnam. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment to measure preferences for risk and negotiation…
28 December 2021 | Peer Reviewed | VietnamWe study how partners in a household make decisions for themselves and for their spouses regarding intertemporal choices in a field experiment in rural China. We find that men, but not women, make…
21 March 2022 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaAbstractCultural norms diverge substantially across societies, often within the same country. We propose and investigate a self-domestication/selective migration hypothesis, proposing that cultural…
31 October 2021 | Peer Reviewed | VietnamThe paper examines the determinants of vulnerability to expected poverty in Tanzania. Following Landau et al. (2012), Chaudhuri (2000) and Chaudhuri et al. (2003) on estimating Vulnerability to…
9 July 2021 | Peer Reviewed | TanzaniaAbstract Resource-conserving technologies are widely reported to benefit both the environment and the people who adopt them. Evidence for these “win-win” claims comes largely from modeling or non…
3 May 2021 | EfD Discussion Paper |The city of Cape Town suffered a severe water crisis in 2018. At the peak of the drought in South Africa's Western Cape, a randomized control trial at 105 schools investigated the impact of two…
16 March 2021 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaAbstract We examine how gender attitudes and performance under competitive situations in the lab reflect microenterprise outcomes in the renewable energy sector of Rwanda – a country with progressive…
12 March 2021 | Peer Reviewed | South AfricaForest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well as the functioning and growth of economies. However, despite the growing demand for these services, they are hardly given due…
7 April 2021 | EfD Discussion Paper | South AfricaWe investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a lab-in-the-field experiment and a subject pool consisting of Chinese adults following the design by Niederle and Vesterlund (2007). China…
21 March 2022 | Peer Reviewed | ChinaWe use a series of framed experimental games to test the role of access to credit and insurance on farm technology uptake with small-scale farmers in South Africa. Using Cumulative Prospect Theory…
16 March 2021 | Peer Reviewed | South Africa