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WORKS IN PROGRESS

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outreach among Low-to-Middle Income Workers
With Luisa Blanco
2023

Funded by SSA

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Can the Media Spur Startup Activity? Evidence from "Shark Tank"
With David T. Robinson 
2022

Korean Bills And Bitcoins

Price Dispersion in the Remittance Industry: The Role of FinTech, Comparison Shopping, and Other Factors
With Daniel Xu
2021

Funded by NSF

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Dollars

Neuroeconomics for Development: Eye-tracking to Understand Migrant Remittances 
With Eduardo Nakasone 
and Máximo Torero
2020 

Funded by NSF

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Pre- and Post-Survey

PUBLICATIONS

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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?
With Gregory Price
Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming)
2023

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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Retirement Outcomes: Impacts of Outreach 
With Amaia Calhoun and 
Gabriella Lee
Review of Black Political Economy (forthcoming)
2023 

Funded by SSA

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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 

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

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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

Funded by USDA NIFA

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Building Trust in Rural Producer Organizations: Results from a Randomized Controlled trial 
With Tanguy Bernard
Pia DänzerMarkus Frölich
Andreas Landmann, and Fleur Wouterse
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 50 (3), 465-484
2021 

Funded by BMZ and IFPRI

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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

Funded by DOE

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AEA

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

Funded by DOE

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AEA

Bite Me! ABC's SharkTank as a Path to Entrepreneurship 
With Baylee Smith   

Small Business Economics 50 (3), 463-479 
2018

Funded by Kauffman

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Data 

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Creating a Lab in the Field: Economics Experiments for Policymaking
Journal of Economic Surveys
30 (5), 835-854

2016

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Three Risk-elicitation Methods in the Field: Evidence from Rural Senegal 
With Gary Charness
Review of Behavioral Economics
3 (2), 145-171

2016 

Funded by BMZ and IFPRI

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Data

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

Funded by BMZ

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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

Funded by IFPRI

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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

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Contract Farming and Smallholder Incentives to Produce High Quality: Experimental Evidence from the Vietnamese Dairy Sector
With Christoph SängerMatin Qaim, and Máximo Torero
Agricultural Economics 44 (3), 297-308
2013

Funded by BMZ

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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 

Funded by IFPRI

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Instructions

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

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Poverty and malnutrition in Haiti

With Kodjo Aflagah, Atabanam Simbou, Dixita Gupta, and Kodjo Koudakpo

Washington, D.C.: USAID-RTAC

2020

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Poverty and malnutrition in Zimbabwe

With Kodjo Aflagah, Jala Abner, and Kerlisha Hippolyte

Washington, D.C.: USAID-RTAC

2020

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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 IFPRIRead More. Also see this paper

Leaders Needed: Experimental Evidence from Rural Producer Organizations in Senegal

With Tanguy BernardLigane 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. 

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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

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