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...
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subject...
Do poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on investments, even when they would have the financial means to invest optimally? C...
Teacher absenteeism and shirking are common problems in developing countries. While monitoring teachers should ameliorate
those problems, mob...
In Malawi, only 5% of parents state that the right age for a woman to marry is below 18, but 42% of girls get married before they reach that...
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.
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.
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?
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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