The geographical imbalance of the health workforce in Tanzania represents a serious problem when it comes to delivering crucial health services to a large ...

Economic experiments have become extremely influential in economics, by enriching both our understanding of individual motivation and rationality.

Motivational crowding-out theory establishes that the effectiveness of financial incentive schemes, like pay-for-performance, crucially depends on the ...

A number of lab experiments in recent years have analyzed people’s willingness to com-pete. But to what extent is competitive behavior in the lab ...

The first part of this paper gives an overview of the dominating approach within economic theory on individual decision making under uncertainty or risk ...

On what bases should corporations be taxed? This article presents evidence from a series of discrete choice experiments designed to elicit the tax preferences ...

Why do people in rich countries not transfer more of their income to people in the world's poorest countries? To study this question and the relative ...

When confronted with information that ordinary citizens do not care that strongly about efficiency, do economists change their views of optimal public ...

The evidence base for donors’ anti-corruption work points to some inconvenient truths about the prospects for success. We are far from possessing ...

Exchange asymmetries in individual decision-making have attracted substantial attention from economists since Thaler (1980) referred to the phenomenon ...

High-value natural resources can be a political “curse” when political elites use resource revenues to maintain power, subvert democratic ...

Abstract We present unique survey data on the migration predictions of 400 households in two extremely climate exposed unions of coastal Bangladesh. ...

This report presents a study of corruption in international markets by exploring the perspectives of Norwegian firms, their challenges, their experiences ...

Europe experiences ultra-conservative push-backs on social advances in sexual and reproductive rights. Who are the actors, what motivates them and how do they work?

The paper discusses and reviews various directions within new institutional economics. A central question of concern is whether theories of institutionalism ...

We study the deep determinants of occupational choice, with a focus on what appears to be a particularly profitable pathway out of poverty, overseas labor ...

There is huge variation in vaccination coverage across low- and middle-income countries. Some of the poorest countries perform far better than richer ones. The standard policy response to low coverage is to improve supply of vaccines. Researchers urge policymakers to also work on the demand side. - Health authorities should try making vaccination the default option, says CMI-director Ottar Mæstad.

In Senegal, school-based sexuality education has evolved over 20 years from family life education (FLE) pilot projects into crosscurricular subjects located ...

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Is rational choice institutionalism useful for development studies? Lise Rakner Forum for Developme