The foundations for successful child development are established in early childhood. Two
main policy approaches for strengthening these foundations have been subsidized …

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 …

As large language models (LLMs) like GPT become increasingly prevalent, it is essential
that we assess their capabilities beyond language processing. This paper examines the …

In this paper, we review published studies to assess the influence of time preferences on
human health behaviour. Our review indicates that elicited discount rates for health have …

Natural disasters constitute a persistent threat to economic welfare in many places,
particularly in developing countries. Not only can disasters transform living circumstances …

We propose a technique for assessing robustness to demand effects of findings from
experiments and surveys. The core idea is that by deliberately inducing demand in a …

Incentivized choice experiments are a key approach to measuring preferences in economics
but are also costly. Survey measures are a low-cost alternative but can suffer from additional …

Behavioral development economics applies theories and ideas from psychology and
behavioral economics to the study of questions in development economics. We begin by …

How much do different monetary and non-monetary motivators induce costly effort? Does
the effectiveness line up with the expectations of researchers and with results in the …

About 15 years ago, economic experiments with children and adolescents were considered
as an extravagant niche of economic research. Since then, this type of research has …