Social protection programs have become increasingly widespread in low-and middle-
income countries, with their own distinct characteristics to match the environments in which …

In the traditional approach to consumer behaviour it is assumed that households behave as
if they were single decision‐making units. This approach has methodological, empirical and …

Inattention is a central, unifying theme for much of behavioral economics. It permeates such
disparate fields as microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance, public economics, and …

We use a randomized controlled trial to study the response of poor households in rural
Kenya to unconditional cash transfers from the NGO GiveDirectly. The transfers differ from …

This paper documents a positive relationship between maize productivity in western Kenya
and women's empowerment in agriculture, measured using indicators derived from the …

This article defines and analyzes a “sparse max” operator, which is a less than fully attentive
and rational version of the traditional max operator. The agent builds (as economists do) a …

This article evaluates the impact of a large cash transfer program in South Africa on
children's nutritional status and investigates whether the gender of the recipient affects that …

Virtually all models of the household assume that the allocation of resources is Pareto
efficient. Within many African households, agricultural production occurs on many plots …

Nearly a third of the world's rural population does not live near a paved road, and it is widely
believed that this limits their access to economic opportunities. Using a natural experiment …

Economists have long argued that the sex imbalance in developing countries is caused by
underlying economic conditions. This paper uses exogenous increases in sex-specific …