Decision lab 101: why and how to set up a decision lab
“Why do people choose the things they choose?” is a question faced by most professionals in today’s world. Whatever work you are doing, the end goal is up to a…
Stress and Temporal Discounting: Do Domains Matter?
Recent work in behavioral economics has asked whether stress affects economic choice. Here we focus on the effects of stress on temporal discounting, for which previous studies have produced inconsistent…
How to help poor informal workers to save a bit: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya.
Worldwide, the majority of workers hold jobs in the informal sector that do not provide access to social insurance programs. We partnered with a savings product provider in Kenya to…
Religion as a Stimulant of Political Participation: Experimental Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya
In this article we explore how certain religious messages may spur or constrain political participation. Specifically, we test whether religious messages that provide individuals a positive self-image can act as…
Redistribution and Group Participation: Experimental Evidence from Africa and the UK
We design an original laboratory experiment to investigate whether redistributive actions hinder the formation of Pareto-improving groups. We test, in an anonymous setting with no feedback, whether people choose to…
Busara voices on collaboration: three perspectives from our teams
COVID-19 has imposed a different perspective on everyone. Across the world people have been forced to rethink how they approach their everyday lives, their work and everything in between. Busara…
How Preeti was born: a beginner’s guide to contextualizing behavioral measures
Are behavioral biases universal? This is a question that Busara has long set out to answer. In 2016, we ran our first large cross-cultural study towards this question and quickly…