{"title":"Promoting menstrual health management among women and girls in Mehe (Cameroon) through a pilot testing project: A quasi-experimental study","authors":"Fabrice Nguegang, Fuein Vera Kum","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102302","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102302","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>The Far North region in Cameroon has the highest rate of poverty in the country. In this region, the natural process of menstruation is a taboo. Knowledge, attitudes and practices about menstruation and menstrual hygiene among adolescent girls is inadequate. This paper investigated the effectiveness of a pilot health promotion project on improving knowledge, attitudes and practices of menstrual hygiene among women and girls in Mehe located in, Meme discrit, Mayo Sava division (Far North region of Cameroon).</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A quasi-experimental study was conducted to evaluate the impact of the health intervention program through a pilot testing project launched in May 2021. A sample of 350 Girls and women from 14 villages in Mehe was made on a random basic. Essentially soft intervention was implemented through a pilot project to bring change within the community. Assessment conducted in May 2022, comprised Key Informal Interview, Focus Group Discussions and a self-administered questionnaire measuring demographic characteristics, knowledge (K), attitudes (A), and practices (P). This KAP survey was administered before and after to investigate the main intervention outcomes. To check the consistency of the findings, a pre-post comparison is conducted using the asymptotic McNemar test for binary matched-pairs data.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>The paper shows that the girls and women of Mehe suffer from poor menstrual hygiene, originating from lack of knowledge and taboos that worsening gender equality. Thanks to the project, they have improved their menstrual health management and gender inequality have been reduced. This study confirms that a soft intervention through a menstrual health education pilot testing project can promote can improved menstrual health management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102302"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142572712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adding nudge-based reminders to financial incentives for promoting antibody testing and vaccination to prevent the spread of rubella","authors":"Hiroki Kato , Shusaku Sasaki , Fumio Ohtake","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102300","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102300","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the effects of combining financial incentives with nudges to promote antibody testing and vaccination to prevent the spread of rubella. In 2019, the Japanese government began providing vouchers for free antibody testing and vaccination to men aged 40–57 years. Vouchers were automatically mailed to 40–46-year-old men in 2019. Those aged 47–57 would receive vouchers after April 2020, while they could obtain vouchers for undertaking antibody testing and being vaccinated in 2019 by applying. Focusing on this policy distinction, we conducted an online field experiment with Japanese 40–57-year-old men in February and March 2020. We randomly provided six nudge-based reminder messages recommending antibody testing and vaccination and tracked self-reported behavior until March of 2020. One nudge-based reminder with an altruistic message on fetal harm through infection from men to pregnant women significantly promoted antibody testing among the 40–46-year-old men who had already received vouchers as a financial incentive. This message could also encourage their vaccinations. In contrast, any nudge-based reminder had no promoting effect for the 47–57-year-old men who must apply for vouchers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102300"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142553129","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}
{"title":"Early childhood discrimination: A comparison of countries","authors":"Silvia Angerer , Tatyana Zhuravleva","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102301","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102301","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study investigates taste-based discrimination in early childhood in two distinct experimental conditions, gender and preschool class and two countries, Russia and Uzbekistan, using a framed field experiment with more than 500 preschool children aged three to seven years. We extend on previous findings from Western countries by studying two non-Western countries to examine generalizable behavioral traits regarding taste-based discrimination across countries. The results show that out-group discrimination is prevalent in both experimental conditions and in both countries. However, the degree of discrimination and its determinants differ between countries and experimental conditions. The results suggest that discrimination is a generalizable human trait which is shaped by the environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of social status on the formation of collaborative ties and effort provision: An experimental study","authors":"Gergely Horváth , Mofei Jia","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102298","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102298","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study whether competition for social status induces higher effort provision and efficiency when individuals collaborate with their network neighbors. We consider a laboratory experiment in which individuals choose a costly collaborative effort and their network neighbors. They benefit from their neighbors’ effort and effort choices of direct neighbors are strategic complements. We introduce two types of social status in a 2 × 2 factorial design: (1) individuals receive monetary benefits for incoming links representing popularity; (2) they receive feedback on their relative payoff ranking within the group. We find that link benefits induce higher effort provision and strengthen the collaborative ties relative to the Baseline treatment without social status. In contrast, the ranking information induces lower effort as individuals start competing for higher ranking. Overall, we find that social status has no significant impact on the number of links in the network and the efficiency of collaboration in the group.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102298"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P.P. Krishnapriya , Marc Jeuland , Jennifer Orgill-Meyer , Subhrendu K. Pattanayak
{"title":"Gendered demand for environmental health technologies: Evidence of complementarities from stove auctions in India","authors":"P.P. Krishnapriya , Marc Jeuland , Jennifer Orgill-Meyer , Subhrendu K. Pattanayak","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102295","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102295","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study if prior exposure to one environmental health technology – improved sanitation – complements or substitutes for additional household investments in another such technology — an electric induction cookstove. We conducted a cookstove demand revealing auction ten years after a random half of our sample had been exposed to an intensive sanitation promotion campaign in rural India. We observe that demand for induction cookstoves among men seems to be affected by information they obtain following the sanitation intervention, whereas preferences and demand among women, who likely have more at stake, are unchanged. This points to the importance of understanding interactions between gender, information, knowledge, and preferences for technology, and decision-making power over adoption of the solutions needed to achieve environmental health targets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102295"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ambiguity Box: A new tool to generate ambiguity in the lab","authors":"Andrea Morone , Rocco Caferra","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102299","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102299","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Ambiguity Box is a software tool that visualizes uncertainty in laboratory experiments. It is a dynamic frame composed of squares that randomly change colours, creating an uncertain and ambiguous environment. This encourages participants to infer the probabilities of each colour. The tool contributes to the economic literature by introducing a new layer of uncertainty, overcoming limitations of traditional tools like the Bingo Blower. The Ambiguity Box is more practical as it is software-based and can be used with any electronic device. It is flexible, allowing experimenters to predetermine the number of squares of each colour, making it adaptable to various experimental designs. It is easily scalable, suitable for use in different contexts, and allows for the exploration of decision-making under ambiguity in diverse settings, dealing also with extremely low probabilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142446986","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}
Giuseppe Attanasi , James C. Cox , Vjollca Sadiraj
{"title":"Festival games: Inebriated and sober altruists","authors":"Giuseppe Attanasi , James C. Cox , Vjollca Sadiraj","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102296","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102296","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We report a staged field experiment during three concerts in the South of Italy characterized by the same traditional music and a comparable average level of alcohol consumption by attendees. Individual blood alcohol concentration is measured with electronic breathalyzers. The experimental games are payoff-equivalent private property and common property trust games. We find that alcohol consumption is associated with less sharing in the private property game and lower efficiency in the common property game. There is a game-form effect for sober participants who share less in the common property game than in the private property game. This finding is consistent with revealed altruism theory as more sharing reveals more altruistic behavior. The absence of such game-form effect among non-sober participants is consistent with alcohol myopia. Tourists share more than local residents, significantly so for sober participants. The private property game elicits more efficiency than the common property game. This game-form effect is robust across sober and non-sober participants.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102296"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142446985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Causal effects of information friction on willingness to pay for hurricane-resistant buildings","authors":"Sebastain N. Awondo, Lawrence S. Powell","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102297","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102297","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the causal effects of information provision on willingness to pay (WTP) for precautionary building standards. In a randomized stated preference field experiment, we present video evidence that hurricane-resistant building standards outperform traditional building standards to a random sample of homeowners. Our analysis reveals evidence consistent with causal effects of video information on WTP for hurricane-resistant buildings. Overall, alleviating performance information friction increases WTP by $634 on average and three times more among risk-neutral homeowners if the WTP payment card range is not truncated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102297"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Egor Bronnikov","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102294","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102294","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102294"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142425107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuseppe Attanasi , Stefania Bortolotti , Simona Cicognani , Antonio Filippin
{"title":"The drunk side of trust: Generalized and instantaneous trust at gathering events","authors":"Giuseppe Attanasi , Stefania Bortolotti , Simona Cicognani , Antonio Filippin","doi":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.socec.2024.102293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present novel evidence on the nexus between alcohol intake and trust at a large cultural gathering event. Throughout six editions, we interviewed nearly 2,000 attendees and collected an objective measure of alcohol intake (Blood Alcohol Concentration, BAC) using electronic breathalyzers and self-perceived measures of intoxication. We elicited different self-reported trust measures toward eventgoers and the general public. While alcohol intoxication is not correlated with trust toward the general public, there is a positive and significant nexus between alcohol intake and trust toward the other participants in the event (<em>Instantaneous trust</em>). Only a small part of this effect (15%) is driven by an increased trust in other drinkers at the event. Taken together, these findings indicate endogenous group formation regarding alcohol intake.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51637,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 102293"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356950","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}