Browsing by Author "Mahmud, Minhaj"
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Contingent Valuation of Mortality Risk Reduction in Developing Countries: A Mission Impossible?
Mahmud, Minhaj (2005)Using the contingent valuation method in developing countries to value mortality risk reduction is particularly challenging because of the low level of education of the respondents. In this paper, we examine the effect of ... -
Does age matter for the value of life? - Evidence from a choice experiment in rural Bangladesh
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Mahmud, Minhaj; Martinsson, Peter (2009-10-19)Using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh, this paper investigates people’s preferences regarding relative values of lives when it comes to different ages of the individuals being saved. By assuming that an ... -
Does stake size matter in trust games?
Martinsson, Peter; Mahmud, Minhaj; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (2004)In a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh, the proportion of money sent decreased significantly with the stake size. Still, even with very large stakes few followed the conventional economic prediction and sent nothing. -
Measuring Trust and the Value of Statistical Lives: Evidence from Bangladesh
Mahmud, Minhaj (2005)This thesis includes five self-contained essays. The first three essays relate to the measurement of trust using both an experimental and a survey approach, and the other two essays relate to the measurement of the value ... -
Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Martinsson, Peter; Mahmud, Minhaj; Johansson-Stenman,, Olof (2005)Trust is measured using both survey questions and a standard trust experiment using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh. We found no significant effect of the social distance between Hindus and Muslims in ... -
Trust, Trust Games and Stated Trust: Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
Martinsson, Peter; Mahmud, Minhaj; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (2005)Levels of trust are measured by asking standard survey questions on trust and by observing the behaviour in a trust game using a random sample in rural Bangladesh. Follow-up questions and correlations between the sent ...