Calendrier du 29 septembre 2021
Development Economics Seminar
Du 29/09/2021 de 16:30 à 18:00
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
TOMPSETT Anna (Stockholm University)
Time is not money: an experiment with community contribution requirements in cash and labour
Community development projects almost universally require communities to contribute collectively towards project costs in cash, materials, or labour. Despite their ubiquity, we know little with certainty about the consequences of such collective contribution requirements, either for the average impact of projects or the distribution of project benefits or costs, or whether these consequences differ when contribution requirements are in cash or labour. We experimentally evaluate the effects of community contribution requirements in cash and in labour in a project to provide safe sources of drinking water in rural Bangladesh. Cash contribution requirements lead to a large decline in take-up and impact, relative to a contribution waiver, while labour contribution requirements of the same nominal value do not. The difference appears primarily driven by the low real monetary value of time in the study communities. The results suggest that substantial welfare gains might be realized by replacing cash contribution requirements with labour contribution requirements in other contexts in which the monetary value of time is low.
Economic History Seminar
Du 29/09/2021 de 10:00 à 17:30
Salle R1.13, Campus Jourdan