Nutrition, information and household behavior: Experimental evidence from Malawi

Household Switching Behavior at Depository Institutions: Evidence from Survey Data

Understanding household deposit relationships is central to the analysis of competition and the application of merger policy in banking. This article presents descriptive findings from new survey data on households’ decisions to change or remain with their providers of checking or savings accounts. The data show that the distribution of household tenure is wide, and that about a third of househ...

Financial Reporting Delay and Investors Behavior: Evidence From Tunisia

This study empirically investigates the relationship between the timeliness of the financial reporting and the corporate governance proxies for companies listed on the Tunisian stock exchange during 2009.It investigates the role of the corporate governance mechanisms on the timeliness of corporate financial reporting besides; it investigates the relationship between the company size, leverage, ...

In the Public Eye Norms of Distributive Justice and Sharing Behavior under Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Rural Malawi∗

Whether culture is a determinant of economic growth remains a core question in development economics. Sharing norms, in particular, have often been the focus of interest due to their influence on redistribution and incentives for productive activity. Yet, little is known about the relative importance of such norms in developing countries, and whether these norms are fully internalized or domain...

Technological Selection , Information , and Changing Household Behavior , 1850 - 1914

gender ratio and intra-household collective decision process: evidence from iranian household labor supply

this paper provides an empirical investigation on individual labour supply of iranian spouses in an intra-household collective decision framework in which gender ratio plays a central role in the household’s resources allocation. the data set is taken from the socioeconomic characteristics of panel survey over the period 2001-2004 and ten yearly headcount of iran. we have conducted the paramete...