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Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda (2020)
Journal Article

We use Benford’s Law to investigate inaccurate financial reports of a representative sample of Ugandan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). We find that 25% of the sample provided information that did not conform to the Benford distribution, suggest... Read More about Do Better-Performing Nongovernmental Organizations Report More Accurately? Evidence from Financial Accounts in Uganda.

Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous: A complementary methods approach (2020)
Journal Article

We adopt a complementary methods approach to investigate whether and how heterogeneity in individual returns to a public good affects public good provision. We engage smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka in: a one-shot, framed, lab-in-the-field experimen... Read More about Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous: A complementary methods approach.

Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Using a specially designed experiment, we investigate whether and how interdependence in risk exposure, i.e., risk taking by some members of a potential risk sharing group affecting not only their own but also their co-members' r... Read More about Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent.

Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities (2020)
Journal Article

Recent high-profile scandals related to misuse of funding and donations have raised the demand for scrutiny over financial transparency and operational activities of non-profit organizations in developed countries. Our analysis challenges the common... Read More about Does transparency come at the cost of charitable services? Evidence from investigating British charities.

Altruism, fast and slow? Evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment (2020)
Journal Article

Can we use the lens of dual-system theories to explain altruistic behavior? In recent years this question has attracted the interest of both economists and psychologists. We contribute to this emerging literature by reporting the results of a meta-st... Read More about Altruism, fast and slow? Evidence from a meta-analysis and a new experiment.