Unmasking the mystery of the varying benefits from electrification

Submitted by Petra Hansson on

The evidence demonstrating the welfare impacts of electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa remains weak and inconsistent, leading some to assert that emphasis on access, in and of itself, is misplaced and that more should be done to identify the complementary conditions that are needed to deliver the anticipated economic growth and improved welfare outcomes. This project seeks to contribute to this debate, by focusing on the impacts of Uganda’s electrification efforts.

EfD Discussion Paper
Energy, Gender

Replication: Do women shy away from competition? Experimental evidence from China

Submitted by Hang Yin on
EfD Authors:
Carlsson, Fredrik
Lampi, Elina
Martinsson, Peter
Yang, Xiaojun

We investigate gender differences in competitiveness using a lab-in-the-field experiment and a subject pool consisting of Chinese adults following the design by Niederle and Vesterlund (2007). China provides an interesting environment to study since the country has promoted gender equality for a long time and the gender gap in earnings is small in cross-country comparisons. However, in many respects, China is still a patriarchal society. Our results show that women perform equally well as men in a piece-rate task and significantly better in a competitive payment environment.

Peer Reviewed
Experiments, Gender

Are People More Patient with Their Spouse’s Money? An Experimental Study

Submitted by Hang Yin on
EfD Authors:
Yang, Xiaojun
Carlsson, Fredrik

We study how partners in a household make decisions for themselves and for their spouses regarding intertemporal choices in a field experiment in rural China. We find that men, but not women, make decisions that are more patient for their spouses compared with their predictions of their spouses’ decisions, in particular when choices involved two delayed options. Instead the decisions for their spouse are close to the decisions they made for themselves. At the same time, we find evidence of sorting of preferences within households, i.e.

Peer Reviewed
Experiments, Gender
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