Browsing Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät by Advisor "Ibáñez, Marcela Prof. Dr."
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Advances and Applications of Experimental Measures to Test Behavioral Saving Theories and a Method to Increase Efficiency in Binary and Multiple Treatment Assignment
(2017-12-22)This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on ... -
Essays on Development and Behavior Economics: An Impact Evaluation of the “Bolsa Família” - Conditional Cash Transfer on Education and the Effect of Leadership Identity on Group Cooperation and Elite Capture
(2014-06-18)The dissertation at hand is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 presents an impact evaluation of a widely spread conditional cash transfer in Brazil called “Bolsa Família”. We analyze the impacts of the program on two ... -
Essays on Social Preferences in Children and Adolescents: Experimental Evidence from Colombia and India
(2020-05-11)This dissertation presents three independent essays that elicit social preferences in school children by using a combination of experimental measures and survey data. Chapter 2 consider the development of motivations for ... -
Leaving no one behind: Behavioral response to social exclusion and economic inequalities
(2020-08-17)Economic and social Inclusion (multidimensional framework) has been the overarching aim of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Particularly in countries that have heterogeneous social groups and strong, salient identities, ... -
Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2015-02-09)The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical ...