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3. Self-fulfilling mistakes : Characterization and welfare. (2018). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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4. Locus of Control and Technology Adoption in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia. (2018). Berhane, Guush ; Abay, Kibrom ; Blalock, Garrick.
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5. Maternal Depression, Women’s Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial. (2018). Biroli, Pietro ; Bhalotra, Sonia ; Maselko, Joanna ; Baranov, Victoria.
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6. Accessing higher education in developing countries: Panel data analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam. (2018). Singh, Abhijeet ; Sanchez, Alan.
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7. Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children. (2018). Carlana, Michela ; Pinotti, Paolo ; la Ferrara, Eliana ; Laferrara, Eliana .
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8. Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children. (2018). pinotti, paolo ; La Ferrara, Eliana ; Carlana, Michela ; Laferrara, Eliana .
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10. Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways: Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico. (2017). Wydick, Bruce ; Lybbert, Travis J.
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11. To Whom the Spoils?. (2017). Pecchenino, Rowena.
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12. Maternal Depression, Womens Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial. (2017). Biroli, Pietro ; Bhalotra, Sonia ; Baranov, Victoria ; Maselko, Joanna.
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13. Locus of control and technology adoption in developing country agriculture: Evidence from Ethiopia. (2017). Berhane, Guush ; Abay, Kibrom ; Blalock, Garrick.
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14. Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children. (2017). Carlana, Michela ; Pinotti, Paolo ; la Ferrara, Eliana ; Laferrara, Eliana .
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15. Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children. (2017). Carlana, Michela ; Pinotti, Paolo ; la Ferrara, Eliana ; Laferrara, Eliana .
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16. Maternal Depression, Women’s Empowerment, and Parental Investment: Evidence from a Large Randomized Control Trial. (2017). Biroli, Pietro ; Bhalotra, Sonia ; Maselko, Joanna ; Baranov, Victoria.
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17. Exposure to Poverty and Productivity. (2016). Noussair, Charles ; Dalton, Patricio ; Jimenez, Victor Gonzalez .
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18. Heuristic Voting Under the Alternative Vote: The Efficiency of “Sour Grapes” Behavior. (2016). Laslier, Jean-François.
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19. When to Do the Hard Stuff? Dispositions, Movitavtion and th Choice of Difficulties. (2016). Melguizo, Isabel.
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20. Hope as Aspirations, Agency, and Pathways: Poverty Dynamics and Microfinance in Oaxaca, Mexico. (2016). Wydick, Bruce ; Lybbert, Travis.
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21. Psychosocial Competencies and Risky Behaviours in Peru. (2016). Sanchez, Alan ; Favara, Marta.
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22. The effect of aspirations on agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. (2016). Gerber, Nicolas ; Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew .
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23. Aspirations and income, food security and subjective well-being in rural Ethiopia. (2016). Gerber, Nicolas ; Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew .
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24. Social Interactions and Aspirations Formation in Rural Ethiopia. (2016). Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew .
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25. The effect of aspirations on agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia. (2016). Gerber, Nicolas ; Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew .
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26. A teacher unlike me: Social distance, learning, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries. (2015). Karachiwalla, Naureen.
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27. Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception. (2015). Thomsen, Stephan ; Thiel, Hendrik .
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28. Have we cause for despair?. (2015). Pecchenino, Rowena.
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29. Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception. (2015). Thomsen, Stephan ; Thiel, Hendrik .
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30. Understanding youth: towards a psychology of youth poverty and development in sub-Saharan African cities. (2015). Banks, Nicola .
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31. The Effect of Aspirations on Agricultural Innovations in Rural Ethiopia. (2015). Gerber, Nicolas ; Mekonnen, Daniel .
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32. Migration experience, aspirations and the brain drain theory and empirical evidence. (2014). Glaser, Toni ; Böhme, Marcus ; Bohme, Marcus H.
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33. Migration and aspirations – are migrants trapped on a hedonic treadmill?. (2014). Czaika, Mathias ; Vothknecht, Marc .
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34. The Economic Consequences of Despair. (2014). Pecchenino, Rowena.
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35. Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large scale experiment in Colombia. (2014). Stoye, George ; Carneiro, Pedro ; Barron, Kai ; Attanasio, Orazio ; Abramovsky, Laura.
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36. The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Forward-Looking Behaviour in Rural Ethiopia. (2014). Taffesse, Alemayehu ; Dercon, Stefan ; Bernard, Tanguy ; Orkin, Kate .
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37. Do Colombian students underestimate higher education returns?. (2014). Rodriguez Lesmes, Paul ; Gamboa, Luis.
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38. Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes. (2013). Wydick, Bruce ; Glewwe, Paul ; Rutledge, Laine .
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39. Cultures of Aspiration and Poverty? Aspirational Inequalities in Northeast and Southern Thailand. (2013). Camfield, Laura ; McGregor, J. ; Promphaking, Buapun ; Masae, Awae .
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40. Responding to the Psychological Context of Extreme Poverty: Using Cash Transfers to Stimulate Productive Investment Decisions in Bangladesh. (2013). Marsden, Hannah ; Maclay, Christopher .
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41. Characterizing Behavioral Decisions with Choice Data. (2013). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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42. Migration and educational aspirations: Another channel of brain gain?. (2012). Böhme, Marcus ; Bohme, Marcus .
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43. Poverty, aspirations and wellbeing: afraid to aspire and unable to reach a better life – voices from Egypt. (2011). Ibrahim, Solava .
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44. Behavioral Decisions and Welfare (Replaces CentER DP 2010-22). (2010). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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45. Behavioral Decisions and Policy. (2010). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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46. Behavioural Decisions and Policy. (2010). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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47. Behavioural Decisions and Welfare. (2010). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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48. Behavioural Decisions and Welfare. (2008). Ghosal, Sayantan ; Dalton, Patricio.
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