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Privacy during pandemics: Attitudes to public use of personal data 大流行病期间的隐私问题：对公众使用个人数据的态度

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102304

Eleonora Freddi , Ole Christian Wasenden

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Understanding inconsistencies in risk attitude elicitation games: Evidence from smallholder farmers in five African countries 了解风险态度诱导游戏中的不一致性：来自五个非洲国家小农的证据

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102307

Haftom Bayray Kahsay , Simone Piras , Laure Kuhfuss , Marco Setti , Valentino Marini Govigli

{"title":"Understanding inconsistencies in risk attitude elicitation games: Evidence from smallholder farmers in five African countries","authors":"Haftom Bayray Kahsay , Simone Piras , Laure Kuhfuss , Marco Setti , Valentino Marini Govigli","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102307","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102307","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent empirical studies eliciting farmers’ risk attitudes through lab-in-the-field experiments have reported high levels of inconsistency in responses. We investigate inconsistencies in risk attitudes elicitation games using data from incentivized lotteries involving 2,319 smallholder farmers from Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) and Northern Africa (Tunisia, Morocco). Our sample demonstrates high levels of inconsistent behavior, with 48 % of the farmers exhibiting some type of inconsistency. Depending on the country, inconsistencies are explained by poverty, gender, and/or the interaction of gender and level of education. We find no significant impact (negative or positive) of education alone in all but one country model. Furthermore, we find session fixed effects to significantly explain inconsistencies in many cases, suggesting that session-specific circumstances, including inconsistencies across enumerators, play a crucial role in the successful implementation of these experiments. Our findings suggest that using risk attitude parameters without accounting for the presence and the potential causes of inconsistency may lead to unreliable results. This study may guide practitioners in identifying farmer typologies more prone to inconsistent decisions and inform policymakers about factors influencing operators’ choices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Inflation expectations in the wake of the war in Ukraine 乌克兰战争后的通货膨胀预期

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102303

Geghetsik Afunts , Misina Cato , Tobias Schmidt

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Asking for a friend: Reminders and incentives for crowdfunding college savings 请求朋友大学储蓄众筹的提醒和激励措施

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102305

Jason Jabbari, Stephen Roll, Laura Brugger

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‘Update Bias’: Manipulating past information based on the existing circumstances 更新偏差"：根据现有情况操纵过去的信息

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102306

Hamza Umer , Takashi Kurosaki

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Promoting menstrual health management among women and girls in Mehe (Cameroon) through a pilot testing project: A quasi-experimental study 通过试点测试项目促进梅赫（喀麦隆）妇女和女孩的月经健康管理：准实验研究

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102302

Fabrice Nguegang, Fuein Vera Kum

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Adding nudge-based reminders to financial incentives for promoting antibody testing and vaccination to prevent the spread of rubella 在促进抗体检测和疫苗接种的经济激励措施中添加基于劝告的提醒措施，以预防风疹的传播

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102300

Hiroki Kato , Shusaku Sasaki , Fumio Ohtake

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Early childhood discrimination: A comparison of countries 幼儿歧视：各国情况比较

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102301

Silvia Angerer , Tatyana Zhuravleva

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The impact of social status on the formation of collaborative ties and effort provision: An experimental study 社会地位对合作关系的形成和努力提供的影响：一项实验研究

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102298

Gergely Horváth , Mofei Jia

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Gendered demand for environmental health technologies: Evidence of complementarities from stove auctions in India 环境健康技术的性别需求：印度炉灶拍卖的互补性证据

IF 1.6 3区经济学

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102295

P.P. Krishnapriya , Marc Jeuland , Jennifer Orgill-Meyer , Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

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