The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments

Cilliers, Jacobus; Dube, Oeindrila; Siddiqi, Bilal

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.03.015

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“…This rules out foreigner-presence effects as observed inCillier et al (2015).7 The random price determination makes the BDM mechanism a variant of the Vickrey (second-price) auction where the final price is determined through competition between bidders(Vickrey 1961) Beltramo et al (2015),. for example, applied Vickrey auctions to study the effect of marketing messages and payment over time on the uptake of improved cookstoves in Uganda.…”

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One-off Subsidies and Long-run Adoption – Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

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Peters

2018

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Free distribution of a technology can be an effective development policy instrument if its adoption is socially inefficient and hampered by affordability constraints. Improved cookstoves may be such a case: they generate high environmental and public health returns, but adoption is generally low. Based on a randomized controlled trial in rural Senegal, this paper studies whether one-time free cookstove distribution affects households' willingness to pay (WTP) in the long run. Effects might be negative because people anchor their WTP on the earlier zero price (reference dependence) or positive because information deficits about potential benefits are overcome. We find that households who received a free stove six years back exhibit a higher WTP today compared to control households. Potential reference dependence effects are thus at least compensated by learning effects. Our findings suggest that one-time free distribution does not spoil future prices and might even be a stepping stone for future market establishment.

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One-off Subsidies and Long-run Adoption – Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

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“…Second, it could indicate that the prime would increase the propensity to report truthfully. However, as studies suggest a high social desirability bias in the aid allocation setting (Stecklov, Weinreb, & Carletto, 2017;Cilliers, Dube, & Siddiqi, 2015), implications should not be drawn too early and will be discussed in subsequent sections.…”

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“…Individuals may misreport in a calculated fashion to increase earnings in a study context (Mazar, Amir, and Ariely 2008) or to shape the results of the study if they believe that it will inform policy. It is not surprising that this problem might arise in the context of development aid, an area rife with perverse incentives (Braütigam and Knack 2004; Cilliers, Dube, & Siddiqi, 2015). In situations where individuals wish to influence a particular research outcome, a guise of anonymity will not shift their behavior.…”

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Eliciting Accurate Responses to Consumption Questions among Idps in South Sudan Using “Honesty Primes”

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Walsh³

2018

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Misreporting is a well-known challenge for researchers in social sciences. This issue is especially prevalent if incentives for misreporting exist, for example, to claim certain benefits or hide illegal behavior. Internally displaced persons are a population that is highly dependent on aid receipts and, thus, have strong incentives to underreport consumption levels. To improve reporting for such vulnerable populations, this paper proposes to integrate "honesty primes" into the consumption module of the questionnaire. Honesty primes are unconscious stimuli that induce a certain cognition or behavior. The study assesses the effectiveness of a bundle of randomly assigned primes within a sample of internally displaced persons in South Sudan. In line with the main hypothesis, positive and significant effects arise for low consumption quantiles, especially consumption quantities that are more susceptible to manipulation. Hence, honesty primes can act as a cost-effective tool to induce more accurate reporting. Further research is needed to identify more effective primes for the respective population of interest.

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“…6 This rules out foreigner-presence effects as observed in Cillier et al (2015). 7 The random price determination makes the BDM mechanism a variant of the Vickrey (second-price) auction where the final price is determined through competition between bidders (Vickrey 1961).…”

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One-Off Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

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2017

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The white-man effect: How foreigner presence affects behavior in experiments

Cited by 61 publications

References 57 publications

One-off Subsidies and Long-run Adoption – Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

One-off Subsidies and Long-run Adoption – Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

Eliciting Accurate Responses to Consumption Questions among Idps in South Sudan Using “Honesty Primes”

One-Off Subsidies and Long-Run Adoption Experimental Evidence on Improved Cooking Stoves in Senegal

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