Handbook of Experimental Development Economics

Edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta, Associate Professor of Economics, Fordham University, USA and Pushkar Maitra, Professor of Economics, Monash University, Australia

• Contents1 Introduction 1Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar MaitraPart I. Preferences in developing countries2 Non-WEIRD preferences 10Smriti Sharma and Abu Siddique3 An overview of risk preferences in developing countries 27Mary L. Rigdon, Farah Said and Joe Vecci4 Dishonesty in developing countries – What can we learn from experiments? 50Shuguang Jiang and Marie Claire Villeval5 Measuring social preferences in developing economies 74Vojtěch Bartoš and Ian LevelyPart II. Gender and discrimination in developing countries6 Gender and natural experiments in developing countries 105Irma Clots-Figueras and Lakshmi Iyer7 Role models in developing countries 122Danila Serra8 Intra-household experiments 135Alistair Munro9 Domestic violence: a partial survey of the economics literature 166Sonia Bhalotra, George Ferridge and Marissa Hindelang10 Discrimination in developing countries 220Pushkar Maitra and Ananta NeelimPart III. Human capital in developing countries11 Psychometric quality of measures of learning outcomes in low- and middle-income countries 249Masha Bertling, Abhijeet Singh and Karthik Muralidharan 12 New evidence on vocational and apprenticeship training programs in developing countries 281Neha Agarwal and Subha ManiPart IV. Tools, methods, and conventions in experimental development economics13 Lab-in-the-field methods in development economics: a review of current practices 310Utteeyo Dasgupta, Lata Gangadharan and Andrew Souther14 Experimental development economics: current scope and future directions 358Utteeyo Dasgupta, Pamela Jakiela, Pushkar Maitra, Owen Ozier, Danila Serra and Angelino Viceisza

‘A great foundation for scholars interested in understanding the behaviours at the centre of some of the more pernicious and persistent development problems in developing countries in particular. Written by scholars with valuable fieldwork and experimental experience in these contexts, this text provides a refreshing alternative to WEIRD science.’