Antibiotic exposure at the beginning of life can lead to increased antimicrobial resistance
and perturbations of the developing microbiome. Early-life microbiome disruption increases …

Microinsurance has recently received much attention as a promising tool to protect poor
individuals from important shocks. Yet, voluntary demand from people has been low …

Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are
addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a …

Green agricultural technology has the potential to not only alleviate the degradation of soil
fertility, but also to improve the agricultural productivity of smallholders. In this paper, taking …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

We review research that measures time preferences—ie, preferences over intertemporal
trade—offs. We distinguish between studies using financial flows, which we call “money …

We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to
conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior …

The use of real decision-making incentives remains under debate after decades of
economic experiments. In time preferences experiments involving future payments, real …

Intertemporal tradeoffs play a key role in many personal decisions and policy questions. We
describe models of intertemporal choice, identify empirical regularities in choice, and pose …

Experimental tests of dynamically inconsistent time preferences have largely relied on
choices over time-dated monetary rewards. Several recent studies have failed to find the …