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Parent-Bias

with J. Thibaud

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Parent-Bias

with J. Thibaud

How do parents plan to and effectively share resources with their children over time? In a lab-in-the-field experiment in Malawi, we show th...

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Measuring Child Labor: Whom Should Be Asked, and Why It Matters

with S. Wolf

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Measuring Child Labor: Whom Should Be Asked, and Why It Matters

with S. Wolf

Child labor is a pervasive practice; according to the International Labor Organization, there are 160 million child workers worldwide. That ...

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When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience - Evidence from School Parents in Brazil

with E. Bettinger, N. Cunha and R. Madeira

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When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience - Evidence from School Parents in Brazil

with E. Bettinger, N. Cunha and R. Madeira

Informing parents about their children’s school truancy has been shown to improve educational outcomes. Is that because information leads pa...

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The Psychological Effects of Poverty on Investments in Children's Human Capital

with E. Bettinger, N. Cunha and R. Madeira

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The Psychological Effects of Poverty on Investments in Children's Human Capital

with E. Bettinger, N. Cunha and R. Madeira

Do financial worries lead poor parents to miss high-return opportunities to invest in their children even when they would have the financial...

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Arm-Wrestling in the Classroom: Teachers' Responses to (Excessive) External Inputs

with S. Wolf

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Arm-Wrestling in the Classroom: Teachers' Responses to (Excessive) External Inputs

with S. Wolf

 We cross-randomized nudges to teachers and parents in Cote d’Ivoire: the former, to motivate teachers directly, and the latter, to mobilize...

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More Events

Talks

School Closures and Reopening in the Pandemic

The educational and health impacts of school closures and reopening in the pandemic, taking advantage of two natural experiments in São Paulo State. Project in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank and the São Paulo State Education Secretariat.

Harming to Signal

Parents in Malawi are compelled to marry off their under-age daughters in villages where child marriage is prevalent out of social image concerns. Alternative signals of social preferences can disrupt that signaling equilibrium and affect child marriage, teenage pregnancies and school dropouts.

Information vs. Salience

Informational interventions often have enormous impacts on decision-making. Is it because those interventions make beliefs more accurate with respect to the ground truth, or because they reallocate attention towards the dimension they target -- perhaps even leading subjects to acquire decision-relevant information themselves? 

Cognitive Droughts

Financial worries brought about by the threat of a drought capture poor farmers' attention, memory and impulse control in the Brazilian Northeast.  

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