Envy and Agricultural Innovation: An Experimental Case Study from Ethiopia

Bereket Kebede and Daniel Zizzo

No 2011-06, CSAE Working Paper Series from Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

Abstract: The underlying motivations for envy or related social preferences and their impact on agricultural innovations are examined by combining data from money burning experimental game and household survey from Ethiopia. In the first stage of the money burning experimental game, income inequality is induced by providing different endowments and playing a lottery. In the second, people are allowed to decrease (‘burn’) other players’ money at their own expense. Conditional on individual behaviour, experimentally measured envious preferences from others have a negative effect on real life agricultural innovation.

Keywords: envy; social preferences; money burning games; agricultural innovations; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 D03 O12 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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