Behavioural Development Economics: Lessons from Field Labs in the Developing World
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Lessons from field labs in the developing world
Explanations of poverty, growth and development more generally depend on the assumptions made about individual preferences and the willingness to engage in strategic behaviour. Economic experiments, especially those conducted in the field, have begun to paint a picture of economic agents in developing communities that is at some variance from the traditional portrait. We review this growing lit...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Development Studies
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0022-0388,1743-9140
DOI: 10.1080/00220380701848327