A Barr
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4104 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Barr |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Barr |
| FIRMA | BARR A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1241-9162 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1958 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Social Status and Egalitarianism in Non-Lineage-Based, Agrarian Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper explores the role of social status in relationships between richer and poorer households in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities by analyzing who goes to whose funerals in six resettled Zimbabwean villages. Funerals allow social status to be observed because nonattendance is a sign of disrespect. We find that the richer a household hosting a funeral, the less likely heads of neighboring households were to attend. This is consistent …
Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous – A complementary methods approach
The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance
Health sector fragmentation
BACKGROUND: Fragmentation across governance structures, funding, and external actor engagement in Sierra Leone continues to challenge the efficiency and coherence of health sector activities and impedes sustained health system strengthening. Three examples are discussed to highlight the extent, causes, and impacts of health sector fragmentation in Sierra Leone: the community health worker programme, national medical supply chain, and service leve…
Commitment to Political Ideology is a Luxury Only Students Can Afford
Using a political-frame-free, lab-in-the-field experiment, we investigate the associations between employment status, self-reported political ideology, and preferences for redistribution. The experiment consists of a real-effort task, followed by a four-player dictator game. In one treatment, dictator game initial endowments depend on participants’ performance in the real-effort task, i.e., they are earned, in the other, they are randomly determi…
The Formation of Community-Based Organizations
Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and clustering households. Our findings are as follows: CBO co-memberships are more likely between geographically proximate households and less likely between e…
Bridging the Gender Divide
Who Shares Risk with Whom under Different Enforcement Mechanisms
We investigate whether available enforcement mechanisms affect who shares risk with whom in sub-Saharan Africa, by applying dyadic regression analysis to data from a lab-type experiment, surveys, and a genealogical-mapping exercise. During the experiment, participants were invited to form risk-sharing groups under three enforcement mechanisms: external, intrinsic, and extrinsic (i.e., social sanctioning). Same-sex dyads and dyads who belong to th…
Corruption and culture
For public service or money
Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analysing data obtained from contingent valuation questions for final year students from three medical schools and eight nursing schools, we find that there is substantial h…
A client-community assessment of the NGO sector in Uganda
Using original data from client-community assessments, we examine motivations in the Ugandan NGO sector. In general, client-community satisfaction with NGO interventions is high, even though some NGO staff are viewed as unresponsive, underskilled, or self-serving. We find evidence that NGOs endeavour to redress the balance between rich and poor, although more remote communities suffer neglect, possibly for cost reasons. NGOs are less inclined to …
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This research, however, cannot determine whether the uniformity results from universal patterns of human behavior or from the limited cultural variation available among the university students used in virtually all prior experimental work. To address this, we un…
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda
Forging Effective New Communities
Trust and Expected Trustworthiness
An economic experiment involving 24 small, tightly knit communities allows us to distinguish between trusting or trust-like behaviour based on expectational and non-expectational motivations. A model linking trusting behaviour to expectations of trustworthiness explains over half of the variation across communities. However, the estimated parameters are different (while being similarly well defined) for traditional and resettled communities. This…
Ethnic fractionalization in an African labour market
Multiple spells of in-patient treatment in a calendar year
Starting on
Training of Student Nurses
The urgent need to minimize wastage among student nurses during training is too well known and well documented to require elaboration. Approximately one student out of every three joining the training schools of general hospitals fails to complete the prescribed course. The reasons for this failure vary, but are generally vague and indefinite. One approach to the problem is to compare the characteristics of those students who are successful in th…
The Extent of Hospital Sickness
Morbidity studies based on hospital admission rates are complicated because all admissions to a defined group of hospitals rarely come from a de fined population and all admissions from a defined population rarely go to a defined group of hospitals. As a consequence, if the starting point of the study is either the complete records of a hospital group or the complete enumeration of the population in a geo graphical area, the available data are us…
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda
Trust and Expected Trustworthiness
An economic experiment involving 24 small, tightly knit communities allows us to distinguish between trusting or trust-like behaviour based on expectational and non-expectational motivations. A model linking trusting behaviour to expectations of trustworthiness explains over half of the variation across communities. However, the estimated parameters are different (while being similarly well defined) for traditional and resettled communities. This…
Forging Effective New Communities
The Formation of Community-Based Organizations
Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and clustering households. Our findings are as follows: CBO co-memberships are more likely between geographically proximate households and less likely between e…
For public service or money
Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analysing data obtained from contingent valuation questions for final year students from three medical schools and eight nursing schools, we find that there is substantial h…
Ethnic fractionalization in an African labour market
The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance
Commitment to Political Ideology is a Luxury Only Students Can Afford
Using a political-frame-free, lab-in-the-field experiment, we investigate the associations between employment status, self-reported political ideology, and preferences for redistribution. The experiment consists of a real-effort task, followed by a four-player dictator game. In one treatment, dictator game initial endowments depend on participants’ performance in the real-effort task, i.e., they are earned, in the other, they are randomly determi…
Who Shares Risk with Whom under Different Enforcement Mechanisms
We investigate whether available enforcement mechanisms affect who shares risk with whom in sub-Saharan Africa, by applying dyadic regression analysis to data from a lab-type experiment, surveys, and a genealogical-mapping exercise. During the experiment, participants were invited to form risk-sharing groups under three enforcement mechanisms: external, intrinsic, and extrinsic (i.e., social sanctioning). Same-sex dyads and dyads who belong to th…
Bridging the Gender Divide
The Extent of Hospital Sickness
Morbidity studies based on hospital admission rates are complicated because all admissions to a defined group of hospitals rarely come from a de fined population and all admissions from a defined population rarely go to a defined group of hospitals. As a consequence, if the starting point of the study is either the complete records of a hospital group or the complete enumeration of the population in a geo graphical area, the available data are us…
Training of Student Nurses
The urgent need to minimize wastage among student nurses during training is too well known and well documented to require elaboration. Approximately one student out of every three joining the training schools of general hospitals fails to complete the prescribed course. The reasons for this failure vary, but are generally vague and indefinite. One approach to the problem is to compare the characteristics of those students who are successful in th…
Multiple spells of in-patient treatment in a calendar year
Starting on
Ethnic fractionalization in an African labour market
Trust and Expected Trustworthiness
An economic experiment involving 24 small, tightly knit communities allows us to distinguish between trusting or trust-like behaviour based on expectational and non-expectational motivations. A model linking trusting behaviour to expectations of trustworthiness explains over half of the variation across communities. However, the estimated parameters are different (while being similarly well defined) for traditional and resettled communities. This…
Forging Effective New Communities
“Economic man” in cross-cultural perspective
Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around the world. This research, however, cannot determine whether the uniformity results from universal patterns of human behavior or from the limited cultural variation available among the university students used in virtually all prior experimental work. To address this, we un…
The governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda
A client-community assessment of the NGO sector in Uganda
Using original data from client-community assessments, we examine motivations in the Ugandan NGO sector. In general, client-community satisfaction with NGO interventions is high, even though some NGO staff are viewed as unresponsive, underskilled, or self-serving. We find evidence that NGOs endeavour to redress the balance between rich and poor, although more remote communities suffer neglect, possibly for cost reasons. NGOs are less inclined to …
For public service or money
Geographical imbalances in the health workforce have been a consistent feature of nearly all health systems, and especially in developing countries. In this paper we investigate the willingness to work in a rural area among final year nursing and medical students in Ethiopia. Analysing data obtained from contingent valuation questions for final year students from three medical schools and eight nursing schools, we find that there is substantial h…
Corruption and culture
Bridging the Gender Divide
Who Shares Risk with Whom under Different Enforcement Mechanisms
We investigate whether available enforcement mechanisms affect who shares risk with whom in sub-Saharan Africa, by applying dyadic regression analysis to data from a lab-type experiment, surveys, and a genealogical-mapping exercise. During the experiment, participants were invited to form risk-sharing groups under three enforcement mechanisms: external, intrinsic, and extrinsic (i.e., social sanctioning). Same-sex dyads and dyads who belong to th…
The Formation of Community-Based Organizations
Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which villages were formed by government officials selecting and clustering households. Our findings are as follows: CBO co-memberships are more likely between geographically proximate households and less likely between e…
Commitment to Political Ideology is a Luxury Only Students Can Afford
Using a political-frame-free, lab-in-the-field experiment, we investigate the associations between employment status, self-reported political ideology, and preferences for redistribution. The experiment consists of a real-effort task, followed by a four-player dictator game. In one treatment, dictator game initial endowments depend on participants’ performance in the real-effort task, i.e., they are earned, in the other, they are randomly determi…
Health sector fragmentation
BACKGROUND: Fragmentation across governance structures, funding, and external actor engagement in Sierra Leone continues to challenge the efficiency and coherence of health sector activities and impedes sustained health system strengthening. Three examples are discussed to highlight the extent, causes, and impacts of health sector fragmentation in Sierra Leone: the community health worker programme, national medical supply chain, and service leve…
Collective management of an environmental threat when exposure is heterogeneous – A complementary methods approach
The effect of education, income inequality and merit on inequality acceptance
Social Status and Egalitarianism in Non-Lineage-Based, Agrarian Communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper explores the role of social status in relationships between richer and poorer households in non-lineage-based, agrarian communities by analyzing who goes to whose funerals in six resettled Zimbabwean villages. Funerals allow social status to be observed because nonattendance is a sign of disrespect. We find that the richer a household hosting a funeral, the less likely heads of neighboring households were to attend. This is consistent …
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