A5032111306- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Education, Sociology, Communication Studies
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Health, Education, and Aging
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Stockholm University
2012-2024
Princeton University
2014-2023
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
2016-2023
National Bureau of Economic Research
2016-2023
University of Oxford
2023
John F. Kennedy University
2023
Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration
2023
National University of Singapore
2023
University of Exeter
2023
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
2012-2022
We use a randomized controlled trial to study the response of poor households in rural Kenya unconditional cash transfers from NGO GiveDirectly. The differ other programs that they are explicitly unconditional, large, and concentrated time. at both village household levels; furthermore, within treatment group, we recipient gender (wife versus husband), transfer timing (lump-sum monthly installments), magnitude (US$404 PPP US$1,525 PPP). find strong consumption transfers, with an increase...
We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing in structured way we can bound its influence. present model which participants respond their beliefs about the researcher’s objectives. Bounds are obtained manipulating those with “demand treatments.” apply method 11 classic tasks, estimate bounds averaging 0.13 standard deviations, suggesting typical probably modest. also show how compute...
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official statistics in environments with large informal sectors subsistence agriculture. We assemble from over 30,000 respondents 16 original household surveys nine countries Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines),...
We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March early April 2020 to study beliefs attitudes towards citizens' governments' responses the COVID-19 pandemic.Most reacted strongly crisis: they report engaging in social distancing hygiene behaviors, believe that strong policy measures, such as shop closures curfews, are necessary.They also their government country's citizens not doing enough underestimate degree which others country support...
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How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics, but has not been studied experimentally. We provided one‐time cash transfers of about USD 1000 to over 10,500 poor households across 653 randomized villages rural Kenya. The implied fiscal shock was 15 percent local GDP. find impacts on consumption assets for recipients. Importantly, we document positive spillovers non‐recipient firms, minimal price inflation. estimate transfer...
Prior research has identified the lateral occipital complex (LOC) as a critical cortical region for representation of object shape in humans. However, little is known about nature representations contained LOC and their relationship to perceptual experience shape. We used human functional MRI measure physical, behavioral, neural similarity between pairs novel shapes ask whether subregions more closely reflect physical stimuli themselves, or those stimuli. Perceptual measures each pair were...
We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March early April 2020 to study beliefs attitudes towards citizens' governments' responses at the onset of COVID-19 pandemic. Most reported holding normative in support containment measures, as well high rates adherence these measures. They also believed that their government country's citizens were not doing enough underestimated degree which others country supported strong behavioral policy...
Human civilization is based on the successful pursuit of long-term goals, requiring ability to forego immediate pleasure for sake larger future rewards. This improves with age, but precise cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying its development remain elusive. The developmental changes could result either from younger children valuing rewards more strongly or because older become better at controlling their impulses. By implementing 2 tasks, a choice-independent valuation task an...
In a previous study, we found an improvement in female empowerment after randomized unconditional cash transfers Kenya (Haushofer and Shapiro 2016).Here report detailed impacts of these on physical sexual intimate partner violence, construct theory to explain them.Transfers women averaging USD 709 reduced violence (-0:26, -0:22 standard deviations).Transfers men (-0:18 SD).We find spillovers: towards non-recipient treatment villages decreased (-0:16 show theoretically that both are needed...
We propose a technique for assessing robustness of behavioral measures and treatment effects to experimenter demand effects. The premise is that by deliberately inducing in structured way we can measure its influence construct plausible bounds on demand-free behavior. provide formal restrictions choice validate our method, Bayesian model microfounds them. Seven pre-registered experiments with eleven canonical laboratory games around 19,000 participants demonstrate the technique. also...
Intertemporal choices - involving decisions which trade off instant and delayed outcomes are often made under stress. It remains unknown, however, whether how stress affects intertemporal choice. We subjected 142 healthy male subjects to a laboratory or control protocol, asked them make series of either directly after stress, 20 minutes later (resulting in four experimental groups). Based on theory evidence from behavioral economics cellular neuroscience, we predicted bidirectional effect...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent mental illnesses worldwide.Existing evidence suggests that it has both economic causes and consequences, such as unemployment.However, depression not received significant attention in economics literature.In this paper, we present a simple model which predicts core symptoms from primitives, i.e. beliefs.Specifically, show when exogenous shocks cause an agent to have pessimistic beliefs about returns her effort, will exhibit...