MetaResearch: Culture Research Ethics and MEthods (CREME) – Page 3

When the measure is broken the solution is wrong: building measures that are contextually relevant in India.

It is impossible to say whether or not an intervention works if we cannot measure it effectively. Measures enable us to estimate behavior change due to a particular intervention. If…

Impact is an Inclusive Goal: Research participants have the answers, you just need to listen

Nobel Prize for pioneering work in developing a theory of radioactivity in 1903. It wasn’t until 1920 that she realized her own work was poisoning her and not until 1925…

Impact is an Inclusive Goal: working with pre-prints to increase access to research

Whether it is increasing access to reliable information in the wake of a pandemic or ensuring more farmers use agricultural insurance, our ultimate aim is to make people’s lives better in real and…

Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: evidence from a Kenyan informal settlement.

&nbsp Case study Efficient lighting uptake among the urban poor: Evidence from a Kenyan informal settlement Download PDF BUSARA GROUNDWORKSECTOREnergyPROJECT TYPE Field and Lab ExperimentsBEHAVIORAL THEMEEfficiency| Urgency OVERVIEW We look…

Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves.

&nbsp Case study Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves Download PDF SECTORCulturePROJECT TYPE Field and Lab ExperimentsBEHAVIORAL THEMECohesion| motive OVERVIEW The aim of this is to…

Value and validation: how feedback enhances the quality of research outputs

If there’s one thing participants could change about research, it would be feedback. In a recent qualitative study, Busara’s research participants told us that they would want to learn the…

Seen but not heard: ethical considerations for inclusive research in the global south

“They (open-ended questions) are the best types of questions to use in research because they do not confine someone to a certain point, but instead, the person will have the…

One size does not fit all: how our cross cultural research agenda is making room for truly generalizable results

An academic paper is often judged by how well it has understood the field it is studying and its contribution towards advancing said field. By that standard behavioral economics literature…

Mapping out methods: bringing structure to the study of behavior

Say you have a problem procrastinating. You would like to change this as you end up doing most things at the last moment. First, you’d have to figure out why…

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…