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Laura Schechter

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First Name:Laura
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Last Name:Schechter
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RePEc Short-ID:psc469
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https://aae.wisc.edu/lschechter/
Terminal Degree:2005 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics; University of California-Berkeley (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Economics Department
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
http://www.econ.wisc.edu/
RePEc:edi:eduwius (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Raúl Duarte & Frederico Finan & Horacio Larreguy & Laura Schechter, 2024. "Brokering Votes with Information Spread Via Social Networks," CESifo Working Paper Series 11349, CESifo.
  2. Jean-François Houde & Terence R. Johnson & Molly Lipscomb & Laura A. Schechter, 2022. "Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal," NBER Working Papers 30514, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Joshua W. Deutschmann & Jared E. Gars & Jean-François Houde & Molly Lipscomb & Laura A. Schechter, 2021. "Privatization of Public Goods: Evidence from the Sanitation Sector in Senegal," NBER Working Papers 29295, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Valencia Caicedo, Felipe & Alix-Garcia, Jennifer & Schechter, Laura & Zhu, S. Jessica, 2020. "Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay," CEPR Discussion Papers 14752, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  5. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2019. "Structural experimentation to distinguish between models of risk sharing with frictions in rural Paraguay," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt6vp5g054, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
  6. Ernesto Dal Bó & Frederico Finan & Nicholas Y. Li & Laura Schechter, 2018. "Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay," NBER Working Papers 24879, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Laura Schechter & Ethan Ligon, 2013. "Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions," 2013 Meeting Papers 174, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  8. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2011. "The Value of social networks in rural Paraguay," CUDARE Working Papers 120419, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  9. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2011. "Motives for sharing in social networks," CUDARE Working Papers 120376, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
  10. Frederico Finan, 2009. "Vote-Buying and Reciprocity," Working Papers id:1882, eSocialSciences.
  11. Jamison, Julian & Karlan, Dean & Schechter, Laura, 2006. "To Deceive or Not to Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior inFuture Laboratory Experiments," Working Papers 18, Yale University, Department of Economics.
  12. Laura Schechter, 2005. "Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural paraguay," Artefactual Field Experiments 00106, The Field Experiments Website.
  13. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2004. "Evaluating different approaches to estimating vulnerability," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 30159, The World Bank.
  14. Ethan Ligon & Laura Schechter, 2002. "Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2002-86, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  15. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2002. "Measuring Vulnerability," 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA 19899, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

Articles

  1. Joshua W. Deutschmann & Molly Lipscomb & Laura Schechter & Jessica Zhu, 2024. "Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 16(3), pages 482-515, July.
  2. Schechter, Laura & Vasudevan, Srinivasan, 2023. "Persuading voters to punish corrupt vote-buying candidates: Experimental evidence from a large-scale radio campaign in India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
  3. Deutschmann, Joshua W. & Gars, Jared & Houde, Jean-François & Lipscomb, Molly & Schechter, Laura, 2023. "Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 160(C).
  4. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer & Schechter, Laura & Valencia Caicedo, Felipe & Jessica Zhu, S., 2022. "Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 202(C), pages 131-167.
  5. Ernesto Dal Bó & Frederico Finan & Nicholas Y. Li & Laura Schechter, 2021. "Information Technology and Government Decentralization: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 89(2), pages 677-701, March.
  6. Ethan Ligon & Laura Schechter, 2020. "Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 69(1), pages 1-50.
  7. Evan Plous Kresch & Molly Lipscomb & Laura Schechter, 2020. "Externalities and Spillovers from Sanitation and Waste Management in Urban and Rural Neighborhoods," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 42(3), pages 395-420, September.
  8. Barham, Bradford L. & Chavas, Jean-Paul & Fitz, Dylan & Schechter, Laura, 2018. "Receptiveness to advice, cognitive ability, and technology adoption," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 239-268.
  9. Lipscomb, Molly & Schechter, Laura, 2018. "Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 235-254.
  10. Yating Chuang & Laura Schechter, 2015. "Social Networks in Developing Countries," Annual Review of Resource Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 7(1), pages 451-472, October.
  11. Chuang, Yating & Schechter, Laura, 2015. "Stability of experimental and survey measures of risk, time, and social preferences: A review and some new results," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 151-170.
  12. Bradford L. Barham & Jean-Paul Chavas & Dylan Fitz & Vanessa Ríos-Salas & Laura Schechter, 2015. "Risk, learning, and technology adoption," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 46(1), pages 11-24, January.
  13. Barham, Bradford L. & Chavas, Jean-Paul & Fitz, Dylan & Salas, Vanessa Ríos & Schechter, Laura, 2014. "The roles of risk and ambiguity in technology adoption," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 204-218.
  14. Laura Schechter & Alex Yuskavage, 2012. "Inequality, Reciprocity, and Credit in Social Networks," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 94(2), pages 402-410.
  15. Frederico Finan & Laura Schechter, 2012. "Vote‐Buying and Reciprocity," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 80(2), pages 863-881, March.
  16. Ligon, Ethan & Schechter, Laura, 2012. "Motives for sharing in social networks," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 13-26.
  17. George Judge & Laura Schechter, 2009. "Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford’s Law," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 44(1).
  18. Jamison, Julian & Karlan, Dean & Schechter, Laura, 2008. "To deceive or not to deceive: The effect of deception on behavior in future laboratory experiments," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 68(3-4), pages 477-488, December.
  19. Laura Schechter, 2007. "Risk aversion and expected-utility theory: A calibration exercise," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 67-76, August.
  20. Grendar, Marian & Judge, George & Schechter, Laura, 2007. "An empirical non-parametric likelihood family of data-based Benford-like distributions," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 380(C), pages 429-438.
  21. Schechter, Laura, 2007. "Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 62(2), pages 272-292, February.
  22. Laura Schechter, 2007. "Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty Is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 97(5), pages 1560-1582, December.
  23. Laura Schechter, 2006. "Trust, trustworthiness, and risk in rural Paraguay," Experimental Economics, Springer;Economic Science Association, vol. 9(2), pages 173-173, June.
  24. Ethan Ligon & Laura Schechter, 2003. "Measuring Vulnerability," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 113(486), pages 95-102, March.

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NEP Fields

NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 12 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (6) 2009-04-05 2011-09-16 2011-09-22 2012-03-28 2019-09-16 2024-11-25. Author is listed
  2. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (5) 2009-04-05 2011-09-16 2011-09-22 2019-09-16 2024-11-25. Author is listed
  3. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (5) 2011-09-16 2011-09-22 2012-03-28 2018-08-27 2022-10-31. Author is listed
  4. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (4) 2009-04-05 2011-09-16 2011-09-22 2019-09-16
  5. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (3) 2011-09-16 2011-09-22 2012-03-28
  6. NEP-NET: Network Economics (3) 2012-03-28 2019-09-16 2024-11-25
  7. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (2) 2018-08-27 2020-06-15
  8. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2017-07-23
  9. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2019-05-20
  10. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (1) 2022-10-31
  11. NEP-DES: Economic Design (1) 2022-10-31
  12. NEP-GEN: Gender (1) 2020-06-15
  13. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (1) 2020-06-15
  14. NEP-GTH: Game Theory (1) 2012-03-28
  15. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (1) 2020-06-15
  16. NEP-ICT: Information and Communication Technologies (1) 2018-08-27
  17. NEP-IND: Industrial Organization (1) 2022-10-31
  18. NEP-PAY: Payment Systems and Financial Technology (1) 2019-09-16
  19. NEP-REG: Regulation (1) 2021-10-04

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