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Long-run effects of family policies: An experimental study of the Chinese one-child policy
(2018-05)
We present lab-in-the-field experimental evidence of the effects of the Chinese one-child policy on individuals’ preferences and behavior as adults. The experiments were conducted in three different provinces because the ...
Does relative income matter for the very poor? - Evidence from rural Ethiopia
(2010-10)
We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on ...
The Origins of Cultural Divergence: Evidence from a Developing Country
(2017-12)
Cultural norms diverge substantially across societies, often even within the same country. In the present paper, we study the voluntary settlement hypoth- esis, proposing that individualistic people tend to self-select ...
Strong, Bold, and Kind: Self-Control and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas
(2012-01)
We develop a model that relates self-control and conflict identification to cooperation patterns in social dilemmas. As predicted, we find in a laboratory public goods experiment a robust association between stronger ...
Does it Matter When a Power Outage Occurs? - A Choice Experiment Study on the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Power Outages
(2009-03-17)
Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for
reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation indicate
that the ...
Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-05-10)
We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated ...
Tolling on the River: Trade and Informal Taxation on the Congo
(2016-11)
It is by now generally agreed that government corruption is a serious impediment to economic growth. An intensive use of informal tolls and bribes on roads and waterways still prevail in several developing countries, ...
Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?
(2004)
This paper proposes that people derive utility not only from goods or their attributes as in standard models, but also from their self-image as influenced by their own perception of their preferences. In a representative ...
Gender Differences in Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence from China
(2019-06)
Experimental evidence from both the lab and the field shows that women on average have a lower propensity to enter a competitive environment. In this paper, we investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a ...
Gender and cooperative preferences on five continents
(2016-11)
Evidence of gender differences in cooperation in social dilemmas is inconclusive. This paper experimentally elicits unconditional contributions, a contribution vector (cooperative preferences), and beliefs about the level ...