[PDF] Top 20 Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics

... from behavioural biases (present bias, overconfidence, and riskiness) when choosing mortgages, (ii) if limited attention bias increases the likelihood that expen- sive mortgage is chosen, and (iii) if framing in ... See full document

... ESSAYS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS Erika Deserranno A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy London, September 2015 0 1 D[.] ... See full document

... The London School of Economics and Political Science Essays on the Political Economy of Development Luis Roberto Mart́ınez Armas A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School[.] ... See full document

... Essays on Business Taxation and Development Anne Brockmeyer A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, June 2013 London School of Economics and Politica[.] ... See full document

... THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Essays in Political Economics of Development Yu Hsiang Lei A thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics for[.] ... See full document

... Essays on the Role of the Internet in Development and Political Change London School of Economics and Political Science Essays on the Role of the Internet in Development and Political Change Luke Ian[.] ... See full document

... The second chapter is concerned with contract design in public service delivery when delivery agents are boundedly rational. A theoretically efficient contract that minimizes moral hazard costs and avoids ... See full document

... Third, just as the rents from facilitating logging may become more or less valuable depending on where governments are in the political cycle, their value (and hence the incentive to allow logging) will depend on what ... See full document

... of development, agriculture represents a big share of both expenditure and value added production, there is an overall reduction of the price ...of development the share of the agri- cultural sector in the ... See full document

... In England, there are differences in the measured academic performance of different primary schools, and places at the best schools are hotly contested. Many families move house to secure a place at good schools (Hansen, ... See full document

... I would like to thank The Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) for providing me a great environment to work and to be in. I feel lucky to have been a part of ... See full document

... The behavioural change of participants is factored in as a benefit of the intervention, even if it represents a cost for ...the behavioural responses are not observed, then the estimates of the net impact ... See full document

... the development of microenterprises, and find evidence of migra- tion networks playing a role in alleviating capital constraints in the most capital intensive ... See full document

... the development of states rather than the emergence of states because, by 1615, local governments had already monopolized violence and taxation in their ... See full document

... rural development, special area programmes, energy, industry, transport and ...scale development projects, as measured by the number of World Bank funded projects, is also ... See full document

... Therefore, in order to understand the welfare impact of personality mismatch, I provide evidence to show that a mismatch in terms of Big Five personality traits between a worker and thei[r] ... See full document

... Throughout the paper, I focus on a simple development application that both focuses the terminology and motivates some assumptions. I assume that the tech- nology at stake is a water filter which determines the ... See full document

... The London School of Economics and Political Science Essays on Microeconomic Theory and Behavioral Economics Zhuoqiong Chen A thesis submitted to the Department of Management of the London School of E[.] ... See full document

... stress index, profits or sales for owner i in period t, CBT i is the treatment dummy, LowF emale1 takes value one if the owner operates in an industry with a low concentration of women, [r] ... See full document

... Why some countries are poorer than others is one of the most important questions in development economics. The current consensus seems to be that income differences cannot be explained purely by differences ... See full document