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The sustainability of agrifood systems is one of the major contemporary challenges. In this context, the role of the primary sector is crucial in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sufficient and affordable quality food for the population. The sustainability of the agricultural sector can be promoted through the development of environmental policies that adopt different types of instruments to encourage agricultural producers to adopt production practices that are sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. Among these tools, interventions that adopt a behavioral approach, particularly those based on nudging, play an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable behaviors (Blumenthal-Barby and Burroughs, 2012; Ferrari et al, 2019). Nudging is defined ...
We plan on running an RCT in the field during the spring of 2024 with a representative sample of residents in the Oslo area (capital of Norway). We will investigate individual mobility and transport modes using surveys and an app tracking mobility. In particular we are interested in study the impact of road pricing (first best price differentiated on time and space for car driving) on travel behavior and on acceptability for such policies.
The diffusion of new technologies is a crucial driver for growth in low-income countries, especially in the agricultural sector. Motivated by theory, researchers and policymakers have relied on networks as a source of rapid knowledge diffusion, yet often with modest empirical results, suggesting that information transmission is not frictionless. We propose a mechanism that might prevent information diffusion: “knowledge hoarding.” In settings where early technology adopters (incumbents) derive rents from it, they might strategically halt its diffusion to preserve the rent their knowledge grants them. This project asks whether knowledge hoarding limit aggregate productivity gains because of distributional consequences generated by knowledge diffusion. We study this question in the contex...
This study focuses on a managerial question: when agents are competing across multiple periods, should managers reward the winners based on accumulative performance across periods with a larger prize (i.e., dynamic contest) or reward winners of each period with a smaller prize (i.e., repeated contest), to elicit higher effort? The standard economic theory would predict that the dynamic contest is optimal if agents only care about the prize they receive. However, based on evidence from the behavioral economics literature, we suggest that if managers can successfully create a social environment where the effects of certain psychological drivers of behavior become more salient, they could expect higher effort from agents in the repeated contest.
The sustainability of agrifood systems is one of the major contemporary challenges. In this context, the role of the primary sector is crucial in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sufficient and affordable quality food for the population. The sustainability of the agricultural sector can be promoted through the development of environmental policies that adopt different types of instruments to encourage agricultural producers to adopt production practices that are sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. Among these tools, interventions that adopt a behavioral approach, particularly those based on nudging, play an increasingly important role in promoting sustainable behaviors (Blumenthal-Barby and Burroughs, 2012; Ferrari et al, 2019). Nudging is defined as...
We aim to investigate the effect of notifying individuals who are eligible for but not receiving a welfare benefit about their entitlement through targeted letters. These letters will be sent to low-income pensioners who are entitled to Pension Credit (PC), the UK's key safety net benefit for pensioners. The letters will vary in their content: a) A basic letter, informing pensioners about PC, how much they are entitled to, and how to claim b) A letter like (a) which also attempts to reduce stigma by emphasising that most eligible people claim c) A letter like (a) except with branding from AgeUK, a highly trusted third party, rather than the borough, who may not be trusted d) A letter like (a) which also emphasises that PC is private, so friends and family will not know the claimant ...
We compare investment decisions under risk (known probability of investment success) vs. ambiguity (unknown probability). We introduce ambiguity into the investment task developed by Gneezy and Potters (1997) and examine its impact on investment decisions, breaking it down into two components: a noisy prediction channel and an ambiguity attitudes channel.
Will the possibility of AI replacement affect career decisions for young adults? We test this using an RCT with information treatment. I leverage an online experiment to investigate how automation risk affects the attractiveness of occupations and the desirability of entering a specific occupation. The experiment consisted of one treatment group and a control group. I am modifying a simple model by Wiswall and Zafar (2018), which predicts a lower probability of entering an occupation if the automation risk for the occupation is underestimated. While the outcome may be intuitive, I am the first to study how occupational automation risk affects the desirability of entering a specific occupation. Compared to previous work on automation’s effect on labor markets, I go one step further a...
We test the impact of an edutainment intervention aiming to reduce child marriage that is targeted at men, at women, or men and women jointly, on education outcomes of adolescent girls and boys. To do so, we leverage a cluster-randomized controlled trial in 177 rural villages in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab in Pakistan, which randomized whether men, women or both genders in the household received the intervention. Survey data were collected from adolescent boys and girls (aged 14-17) and their male and female caregivers. We estimate impacts on school enrollment, attendance and attainment of the target adolescent boys and girls. We also evaluate secondary impacts on other school-related outcomes, on individual preferences, attitudes, expectations and beliefs regarding girls' and boy...
Increasing the productivity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is a key challenge in emerging markets. While management training for SME owners might improve firm performance, existing research shows modest impacts. In this study, we further explore the impacts of management training, with a specific focus on peer interactions among entrepreneurs during accelerator and incubator programs. We aim to investigate two questions: (1) how do peer effects among startups affect future business growth and performance? (2) what are the mechanisms behind peer effects and heterogeneity on the basis of the gender of the entrepreneur and the stage of the business? To answer these questions, we partner with Impact Hub Lagos to conduct a randomized controlled trial among firms participating in a ...