This paper uses a lab-in-the-field experiment in Malawi to document two new facts about how parents share resources with their children over...
The impacts of COVID-19 reach far beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the disease; in particular, the pre-existing learning cr...
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subject...
Poverty focuses attention on present needs. Does that mean that poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on investments in their...
Do people conform to social norms at least partly to signal their social preferences? Using a vignette experiment, we find that parents who ...
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.
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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