WORKS IN PROGRESS
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outreach among Low-to-Middle Income Workers
With Luisa Blanco
2023
Can the Media Spur Startup Activity? Evidence from "Shark Tank"
With David T. Robinson
2022
Neuroeconomics for Development: Eye-tracking to Understand Migrant Remittances
With Eduardo Nakasone
and Máximo Torero
2020
PUBLICATIONS
Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field: Collective Commercialization in Senegal
With Kodjo Aflagah and Tanguy Bernard
Journal of Development Economics 154, 102751
2022
Video by Aflagah
Competition and Prosociality: A Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Ghana
With Kerstin Grosch and Marcela Ibañez
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 99, 101887
2022
Introduction to Special Issue on “Social Justice in Agricultural and Environmental Economics"
With Miesha Williams
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 50 (3), 395-400
2021
Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations: Results from a Randomized Controlled trial
With Tanguy Bernard,
Pia Dänzer, Markus Frölich,
Andreas Landmann, and Fleur Wouterse
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 50 (3), 465-484
2021
Implementing an Intervention in the Spelman College African Diaspora and the World Course
With Francesina Jackson,
Jimmeka Guillory,
A. Nayena Blankson, and Bruce Wade
Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies
8 (1), 19-27
2020
Lessons Learned from a Multidisciplinary Randomized Controlled Trial
With Francesina Jackson,
Jimmeka Guillory,
A. Nayena Blankson, and Bruce Wade
Review of Black Political Economy 46 (2), 160-166
2019
Potential Collusion and Trust: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Vietnam
With Máximo Torero
African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 11 (1), 22-32
2016
To Remit, or Not to Remit: That is the Question.
A Remittance Field Experimenl
With Máximo Torero
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 112, 221-236
2015
Lost in the Mail:
A field Experiment on Crime
With Marco Castillo,
Ragan A. Petrie,
and Máximo Torero
Economic Inquiry
52 (1), 285-303
2014
Contract Farming and Smallholder Incentives to Produce High Quality: Experimental Evidence from the Vietnamese Dairy Sector
With Christoph Sänger, Matin Qaim, and Máximo Torero
Agricultural Economics 44 (3), 297-308
2013
Breaking the Norm: An Empirical Investigation into the Unraveling of
Good Behavior
With Ruth Vargas Hill and
Eduardo Maruyama
Journal of Development Economics
99 (1), 150-162
2012
A Field Experiment on the Impact of Weather Shocks and Insurance on
Risky Investment
With Ruth Vargas Hill
Experimental Economics 15 (2), 341-371
2012
EXPERIMENT GUIDE
Treating the field as a lab: A basic guide to conducting economics experiments for policymaking
Food Security in Practice Technical Guide 7
Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute
2012
Treating the Field as a Lab: A Basic Guide to Conducting Economics Experiments for Policymaking offers economists, researchers, and policymakers 19 basic principles for conducting experiments in developing-country contexts. In this Food Security in Practice technical guide, Angelino Viceisza focuses on the class of economics experiments known as lablike field experiments and examines their basic rationale, the details involved in conducting them, and some of the applications of them in the literature. In addition, Viceisza discusses the role of game theory in conducting field experiments and considers some of the typical issues that can arise when drawing inferences and deriving policy implications from experimental work. Download the guide or take this survey to give feedback.
REPORTS AND BRIEFS
Black Women’s Retirement Preparedness and Wealth
Washington, DC: Urban Institute
2022
Black women have one of the highest labor force participation rates but face a significant gap in retirement readiness. Few policies have tried to address this disparity. Using data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances, I assess Black women’s retirement and financial preparedness relative to other demographic groups. Drawing on prior research, I contextualize structural and other factors that lead to racial and gender disparities in retirement readiness. I also explore a range of promising policies and programs for improving retirement preparedness for Black women.
Read More or visit the One Million Black Women project page.
The Potential Impacts of Interchange Regulation on the U.S. Credit Card Industry
Atlanta, GA: Report Commissioned by Mastercard
2022
Poverty and malnutrition in Haiti
With Kodjo Aflagah, Atabanam Simbou, Dixita Gupta, and Kodjo Koudakpo.
Washington, D.C.: USAID-RTAC
2020
Read the reports.
Poverty and malnutrition in Zimbabwe
With Kodjo Aflagah, Jala Abner, and Kerlisha Hippolyte
Washington, D.C.: USAID-RTAC
2020
Read the reports.
PERMANENT WORKING PAPERS
Communication and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Farmer Groups in Senegal
With Kodjo Aflagah and Tanguy Bernard
IFPRI Discussion Paper 01450
2015
Coordination failures are at the heart of development traps. Although communication can reduce such failures, to date experimental evidence has primarily been lab based. This paper studies the impact of communication in stag hunt coordination games played by members of Senegalese farmer groups—a setting where collective commercialization has suffered from coordination failure, as in many rural contexts. This project was funded by BMZ and IFPRI. Read More. Also see this paper.
Leaders Needed: Experimental Evidence from Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal
With Tanguy Bernard, Ligane Sene, and Fleur Wouterse
2015
Most decisions are taken in group contexts where one person’s behavior is affected by other. We explore drivers of coordination in Rural Producer Organizations of groundnut farmers in Senegal by means of a randomized controlled trial in which we vary the number and type of individual invited to a training on collective commercialization. Our results suggest that non-trained individuals are likely to sell more through the RPO if a sufficient number of group leaders attended the training. This project was funded by BMZ and IFPRI.
Read More.
The Effect of Irrelevant Information on Adverse Selection in a Signaling Game
2011
We find an effect of irrelevant information on adverse selection in a laboratory signaling game. This effect occurs via two channels: the principal is more (less) likely to adversely reject signals from “good” (“bad”) types. The findings suggest that “perception (or perhaps, misperception) of correlation” is sufficient for people to process information. Failure to recognize information as “irrelevant” is costly, suggesting a “curse of (irrelevant) information.” Read More in this paper or this paper.