East and Southern Africa Archives - Page 8 of 14 - Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

Improving retirement savings among informal sector workers

How can behavioral science help informal sector workers meet their savings goals? How do people decide how much to consume today versus how much to save for the future? The…

Can positive psychology improve psychological well-being and economic decision-making? Experimental evidence from Kenya.

Giving now and later: discounting of altruistic and warm glow utility

Manipulation-proof machine learning.

Combining behavioral economics and infectious disease epidemiology to mitigate the COVID-19 outbreak.

Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity

Cognitive biases: Mistakes or missing stakes?

General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya

Updating our understanding of taxpayers’ assumptions

Acute stress decreases competitiveness among men.