Flechtner, Svenja
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Publication Access status: Metadata only , Beyond fads and magic bullets: The promise of behavioral approaches in development economics(2024)The history of development economics has been portrayed as a succession of fads and magic bullets. This study inquires whether behavioral approaches to economic development are destined to become such a fad or whether they have long‐lasting contributions to offer. I first show that behavioral development economics is not a cohesive field with a consensual definition and propose to distinguish three different views of behavioral development economics: the scarcity view, the non‐optimal behavior view, and the psycho‐social‐cultural view. I provide a systematic review of publications in the field of behavioral development economics from 2000 to 2021, distinguishing these three fields. The nonoptimal view has been, by far, the dominant view, and risk and time preferences stand out as the single‐most studied behavioral mechanisms. Finally, I argue that the sub‐field's ability to advance the understanding of behavior relevant to the persistence or alleviation of poverty depends crucially on the inclusion of the psycho‐social‐cultural view. This view has important contributions to offer in terms of (1) the understanding of seemingly nonrational behavior, (2) the identification and measurement of behavioral mechanisms, and (3) the understanding of conditions of external validity, and should be embraced more enthusiastically.Source Type:Article1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Publication Access status: Metadata only , Women’s decision-making power, cooking fuel adoption and appliance ownership: Evidence from Rwanda, Nepal and Honduras(2024); ; Universal energy access underpins progress towards achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including gender equality (SDG 5). Yet this link is conditioned by a range of contextual factors that warrant careful consideration in designing measures that guide intervention. In this article, we examine the relationship between women's decision-making power and household energy choices in Honduras, Nepal and Rwanda. Analysing household and individual data from the World Bank's Multi-Tier Framework Surveys, we develop a measure to proxy women's decision-making power within a household and assess how this correlates with cooking fuel choices and appliance ownership. We find that Honduran and Nepalese households are up to 20 and 30 percentage points more likely to use clean cooking fuels when women in the household also experience high levels of decision-making power, but find no such associations in Rwanda. In terms of household appliances, we observe mixed results. In Honduras and Nepal, we find evidence that households with higher women's decision-making power also own a range of household appliance more often, but there is no general pattern across countries as to which appliances this concerns. In Rwanda, households with higher women's decision-making power own leisure-related devices less often. These descriptive findings highlight patterns of gender- and context-specific preferences over household energy usage relevant to the measurement of energy access and the development of context-aware energy access improvement interventions.Source Type:Article1
