Handbook of Experimental Development Economics

Edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra ()

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Abstract: This Handbook explores both established and emerging developments in experimental development economics. It reviews recent developments and conventions of the experimental tools of research and highlights key topics of ongoing scholarly interest such as the measurement of social preferences in developing countries, the impact of vocational and apprenticeship training programs, and novel measures of learning outcomes.

Keywords: Developing Countries; Field Experiments; Preferences; Gender And Discrimination; Tools; Methods And Conventions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800885363
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction

Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra

Ch 2 Non-WEIRD preferences*

Smriti Sharma and Abu Siddique

Ch 3 An overview of risk preferences in developing countries*

Mary L. Rigdon, Farah Said and Joe Vecci

Ch 4 Dishonesty in developing countries – What can we learn from experiments?*

Shuguang Jiang and Marie Claire Villeval

Ch 5 Measuring social preferences in developing economies

Vojtěch Bartoš and Ian Levely

Ch 6 Gender and natural experiments in developing countries*

Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer

Ch 7 Role models in developing countries*

Danila Serra

Ch 8 Intra-household experiments*

Alistair Munro

Ch 9 Domestic violence: a partial survey of the economics literature

Sonia Bhalotra, George Ferridge and Marissa Hindelang

Ch 10 Discrimination in developing countries*

Pushkar Maitra and Ananta Neelim

Ch 11 Psychometric quality of measures of learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries*

Masha Bertling, Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan

Ch 12 New evidence on vocational and apprenticeship training programs in developing countries*

Neha Agarwal and Subha Mani

Ch 13 Lab-in-the-field methods in development economics: a review of current practices*

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan and Andrew Souther

Ch 14 Experimental development economics: current scope and future directions

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Pamela Jakiela, Pushkar Maitra, Owen Ozier, Danila Serra and Angelino Viceisza

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