Search Results - "Nava Ashraf"

Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines by Ashraf, Nava

“…I elicit causal effects of spousal observability and communication on financial choices of married individuals in the Philippines. When choices are private,…”
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Altruistic Capital by Ashraf, Nava, Bandiera, Oriana

“…To understand altruistic behavior, we must understand the process through which altruism develops and is shaped by the agents' own choices and exogenous…”
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Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia by Ashraf, Nava, Field, Erica, Lee, Jean

“…We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard since most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman…”
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Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia by Ashraf, Nava, Berry, James, Shapiro, Jesse M.

“…The controversy over how much to charge for health products in the developing world rests, in part, on whether higher prices can increase use, either by…”
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Infrastructure, Incentives, and Institutions by Ashraf, Nava, Glaeser, Edward L., Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.

“…Expensive infrastructure is ineffective if it doesn't travel the last mile. In nineteenth-century New York and modern Africa, disease has spread when urbanites…”
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Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya by Ashraf, Nava, Giné, Xavier, Karlan, Dean

“…Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export…”
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Water, Health and Wealth: The Impact of Piped Water Outages on Disease Prevalence and Financial Transactions in Zambia by Ashraf, Nava, Glaeser, Edward, Holland, Abraham, Steinberg, Bryce Millett

“…Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the…”
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Decomposing trust and trustworthiness by Bohnet, Iris, Ashraf, Nava, Piankov, Nikita

“…What motivates people to trust and be trustworthy? Is trust solely “calculative,†based on the expectation of trustworthiness, and trustworthiness only…”
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Traditional Beliefs and Learning about Maternal Risk in Zambia by Ashraf, Nava, Field, Erica, Rusconi, Giuditta, Voena, Alessandra, Ziparo, Roberta

“…Maternal mortality remains very high in many parts of the developing world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. While maternal deaths are observable, it may not…”
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist by Nava Ashraf, Camerer, Colin F., Loewenstein, George

“…Adam Smith's psychological perspective in The Theory of Moral Sentiments is remarkably similar to “dual-process” frameworks advanced by psychologists,…”
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Information and subsidies: Complements or substitutes? by Ashraf, Nava, Jack, B. Kelsey, Kamenica, Emir

“…► We test the interaction of information and subsidies for a health product in Zambia. ► Taken alone, information does not affect demand while the subsidy…”
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Social Incentives in Organizations by Ashraf, Nava, Bandiera, Oriana

“…We review the evidence on social incentives, namely on how social interactions with colleagues, subordinates, bosses, customers, and others shape agents'…”
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No margin, no mission? A field experiment on incentives for public service delivery by Ashraf, Nava, Bandiera, Oriana, Jack, B. Kelsey

“…We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effect of extrinsic rewards, both financial and non-financial, on the performance of agents recruited by a public…”
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Losing Prosociality in the Quest for Talent? Sorting, Selection, and Productivity in the Delivery of Public Services by Ashraf, Nava, Bandiera, Oriana, Davenport, Edward, Lee, Scott S.

“…We embed a field experiment in a nationwide recruitment drive for a new health care position in Zambia to test whether career benefits attract talent at the…”
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Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Intergenerational Investment by Ashraf, Nava, Bau, Natalie, Low, Corinne, McGinn, Kathleen

“…Abstract Using a randomized controlled trial, we study whether a negotiation skills training can improve girls’ educational outcomes in a low-resource…”
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Awards unbundled: Evidence from a natural field experiment by Ashraf, Nava, Bandiera, Oriana, Lee, Scott S.

“…•Employee awards can affect effort via social comparison, visibility, and recognition.•We run a field experiment with Zambian health trainees to unbundle these…”
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Rx: human nature by Ashraf, Nava

“…Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free…”
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Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines by Ashraf, Nava, Karlan, Dean, Yin, Wesley

“…Female “empowerment” has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in…”
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Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines by Ashraf, Nava, Karlan, Dean, Yin, Wesley

“…We designed a commitment savings product for a Philippine bank and implemented it using a randomized control methodology. The savings product was intended for…”
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Commentary on “Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia,” by James Wintrup by Ashraf, Nava, Bandiera, Oriana, Davenport, Edward, Lee, Scott S.

“…“Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia” (Wintrup, 2021) raises important…”
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