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This study is about a smartphone App which provides information on administrative processes to citizens in Burkina Faso. The App was designed to ease administrative tasks and shelter citizens against bribery and day-to-day corruption. We will randomize the access to the App within a pool of interested individuals recruited via Facebook and other channel, and will measure outcomes related to the administrative processes conducted by the participants, including bribery paid.
Gender bias and nepotism are persistent challenges in the labor market worldwide. In developing economies such as the Philippines, 54.8% of men and 34.5% of women participated in the labor force, roughly a 20% difference (National Economic and Development Authority, 2023). Similarly, political dynasties are well known to have dominant and wide networks in both private and public spheres. In the Philippines, where political dynasties are prevalent and last names can carry political significance, we expect that gender and perceived family connections interact to play a significant role in hiring decisions. This study aims to investigate the role that family ties and gender play in influencing firm hiring decisions. We expect to see a preference for hiring male candidates and those with pe...
Japan has one of the most generous parental leave policies for working parents, yet male employees remain reluctant to take leave. In 2021, only 14% of eligible Japanese fathers took at least one day of paternity leave, and conditional on taking leave, most men take less than two weeks of leave. Men’s reluctance to take paternity leave in Japan has been attributed to several factors such as the prevalence of traditional gender norms that are at odds with men taking on a caregiving role, career concerns surrounding the violation of ideal worker norms, and organizational climate and support for leave-taking. Recent work suggests that even as social norms change, individuals may actively enforce a perceived norm, even if they privately reject the norm because they incorrectly believe that ...
In this project, we collaborate with a crop insurance consortium in Uganda and experimentally study the demand for multi-season insurance contracts among smallholder farmers in Uganda. We focus on insurance products with ex-post premiums (“Pay-at-Harvest Insurance”). We investigate whether farmers demand multi-season insurance, whether they want to have the option to cancel after the first season or a commitment to take up for two seasons, and possible mechanisms for the commitment demand. In addition, we will study the effect on insurance demand of a randomized information intervention that aims to make farmers aware of the state-dependent nature of their farming activities and the possible state-dependency of their demand for insurance.
This study aims to investigate the impact of shareholder engagement as a tool for sustainable investment, with a focus on the threat of voting. Specifically, a field experiment will be conducted to examine whether a minority shareholder's threat to vote against the TCFD report increases board-level accountability for sustainability. The aim is to offer concrete evidence on how investors can catalyze change and underscore the significance of a credible threat in engaging with companies on sustainability matters.
This research aims to understand the impact of non-cognitive interventions on the well-being of refugee youth in refugee schools in Malaysia. The information gathered from the research will evaluate the impact of SEL and expressive writing as an intervention tool to increase youth’s non-cognitive skills which is essential for youths' resilience and involvement in their respective refugee community in Malaysia as well as in their next phase of life be it back to their home country or after resettling in a third country (USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.).
I study the effect of how players in a board game generate their rolls on their beliefs of certain winning probabilities in the board game. In particular, it is varied whether players use a tablet computer vs. whether they use a physical die and a dice shuffler to generate their die rolls. The study is implemented as an RCT laboratory experiment.
Reports, for example, tax returns, research findings, or peer evaluations, can in some instances be falsified. We develop an experiment to study how externalities affect an individual’s self-reporting behaviors. We modify the cheating game (Fischbacher & Föllmi-Heusi, 2013) by matching a reporter with a peer subject and manipulate the externality. Specifically, the reporter privately rolls a die and then issues a report on the outcome, which determines the earnings of both the reporter and the audience. Another design arm compares treatments with and without the experimenter observing the die-rolls. In the existing literature on the cheating game, the experimenter is typically assumed to serve as a relevant audience, which contrasts with the perceived role of the experimenter in most ot...
This research uses insights from behavioral economics to study the role of feedback formation in reducing the free-riding problem in team settings. We examine whether letting team members choose their preferred feedback mechanisms promotes higher or lower team contributions than exogenously assigning a feedback mechanism to the team. Participating in the dynamic voluntary contribution mechanism (VCM) game, team members choose between receiving feedback about their team’s progress on a regular basis (time-based feedback) or based on the achievement of intermediate milestones (milestone-based feedback). The findings from this study will contribute to the growing literature on feedback mechanisms as well as have policy implications for designing feedback in team contexts.
In recent years, economists have been increasingly interested in identifying how religion mediates economic development. Individuals’ religious beliefs shape their worldview and thereby interplays with many economic outcomes, from basic consumption to entrepreneurship to how people respond to policies. Thus, understanding whether or how different beliefs shape economic behavior is instrumental for policy makers and researchers to foster economic development. This question is particularly pertinent for economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the growth of Pentecostal and Charismatic churches mark a major shift in the religious landscape. Pentecostalism is thought to instill greater aspirations, hope, and trust in individuals, all factors that economists have identified as key c...