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Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety (2022)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Bowen, S., Lawrence, C., Starmer, C., Barr, A., Davison, K., …Brailsford, S. R. (2023). Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety. Transfusion, 63(1), 171-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17175

Background: Men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) have been deferred from donating blood. However, recent evidence supports the adoption of donor screening based on individuals' sexual behavior over population-based criteria. We explore how best to frame c... Read More about Communicating the move to individualized donor selection policy: Framing messages focused on recipients and safety.

Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous: A complementary methods approach (2020)
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Barr, A., Owens, T., & Perera, A. (2020). Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous: A complementary methods approach. World Development, 135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105078

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)
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Barr, A., Owens, T., & Perera, A. (2020). Risk taking and sharing when risk exposure is interdependent. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 176, 445-460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.04.011

© 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.

The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance (2020)
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Barr, A., & Miller, L. (2020). The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance. Journal of Economic Psychology, 80, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2020.102276

A large number of observational and experimental studies have explored the determinants of individual preferences for redistribution. In general, inequalities are more likely to be accepted by people of higher socioeconomic status, in richer societie... Read More about The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance.

Cooperation in polygynous households (2019)
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Barr, A., Dekker, M., Janssens, W., Kebede, B., & Kramer, B. (2019). Cooperation in polygynous households. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(2), 266-283. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20170438

Using a carefully designed series of public goods games, we compare, across monogamous and polygynous households, the willingness of husbands and wives to cooperate to maximize household gains. Compared to monogamous husbands and wives, polygynous hu... Read More about Cooperation in polygynous households.

Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment (2018)
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Demel, S., Barr, A., Miller, L., & Ubeda, P. (2019). Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 6(1), 33-42. https://doi.org/10.1017/XPS.2018.14

Using a political-frame-free, lab-in-the-field experiment, we investigate the associations between employment status, self-reported political ideology, and preferences for redistribution. The experiment consists of a real-effort task, followed by a f... Read More about Commitment to political ideology is a luxury only students can afford: a distributive justice experiment.

Complicity without connection or communication (2017)
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Barr, A., & Michailidou, G. (2017). Complicity without connection or communication. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 142, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.07.013

We use a novel laboratory experiment involving a die rolling task embedded within a coordination game to investigate whether complicity can emerge when decision-making is simultaneous, the potential accomplices are strangers and neither communication... Read More about Complicity without connection or communication.

Moral consequences of becoming unemployed (2016)
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Barr, A., Miller, L., & Ubeda, P. (2016). Moral consequences of becoming unemployed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1521250113

We test the conjecture that becoming unemployed erodes the extent to which a person acknowledges earned entitlement. We use behavioral experiments to generate incentive compatible measures of individuals’ tendencies to acknowledge earned entitlement... Read More about Moral consequences of becoming unemployed.

Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement (2015)
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Barr, A., Burns, J., Miller, L., & Shaw, I. (2015). Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 118, 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.02.012

We present a series of experiments that investigates whether tendencies to acknowledge entitlement owing to effort and productivity are associated with within society economic status. Each participant played a four-person dictator game under one of t... Read More about Economic status and acknowledgement of earned entitlement.

The formation of community-based organizations: an analysis of a quasi-experiment in Zimbabwe (2014)
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Barr, A., Dekker, M., & Fafchamps, M. (2014). The formation of community-based organizations: an analysis of a quasi-experiment in Zimbabwe. World Development, 66, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.08.003

Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which villages were f... Read More about The formation of community-based organizations: an analysis of a quasi-experiment in Zimbabwe.

Participatory accountability and collective action: experimental evidence from Albania (2014)
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Barr, A., Packard, T., & Serra, D. (2014). Participatory accountability and collective action: experimental evidence from Albania. European Economic Review, 68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.01.010

It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountab... Read More about Participatory accountability and collective action: experimental evidence from Albania.