M Mehrab Bakhtiar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1187302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Mehrab Bakhtiar |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Mehrab |
| FAMILY NAME | Bakhtiar |
| SIGNATURE | BAKHTIAR M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2946-2271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To Defer or to Differ
We conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision-making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences over allocations and traces the process of deferral, consultation, communication and accommodation by which couples implement these preferences. We find few differences in individual preferences over allocations of goods. However, wives and h…
Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh. Consistent with the assumption of imperfectly functioning markets for dairy products, ownership of dairy cows increases the likelihood that a child 6-59 months consumes milk by 7.7 percentage points with no difference in this association between boys and girls. This association nea…
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person's sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we grouped neighboring households and introduced (either financial or social recognition) rewards with a joint liability component for the gro…
Business Training and Mentoring
Recent research shows that microenterprises in developing countries are constrained by their managerial capacity, especially in the areas of marketing, record keeping, financial planning, and stock control. In a stratified randomized controlled trial, experienced businesswomen in Ethiopia were given formal business training that addressed these constraints. A second-stage mentoring component in which a random selection of female mentees within th…
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person's sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we grouped neighboring households and introduced (either financial or social recognition) rewards with a joint liability component for the gro…
Business Training and Mentoring
Recent research shows that microenterprises in developing countries are constrained by their managerial capacity, especially in the areas of marketing, record keeping, financial planning, and stock control. In a stratified randomized controlled trial, experienced businesswomen in Ethiopia were given formal business training that addressed these constraints. A second-stage mentoring component in which a random selection of female mentees within th…
Household dairy production, dairy intake, and anthropometric outcomes in rural Bangladesh
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh. Consistent with the assumption of imperfectly functioning markets for dairy products, ownership of dairy cows increases the likelihood that a child 6-59 months consumes milk by 7.7 percentage points with no difference in this association between boys and girls. This association nea…
Social and financial incentives for overcoming a collective action problem
Addressing public health externalities often requires community-level collective action. Due to social norms, each person's sanitation investment decisions may depend on the decisions of neighbors. We report on a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted with 19,000 households in rural Bangladesh where we grouped neighboring households and introduced (either financial or social recognition) rewards with a joint liability component for the gro…
To Defer or to Differ
We conduct an original lab-in-the-field experiment on the decision-making process of married couples over the allocation of rival and non-rival household goods. The experiment measures individual preferences over allocations and traces the process of deferral, consultation, communication and accommodation by which couples implement these preferences. We find few differences in individual preferences over allocations of goods. However, wives and h…
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Actuarial science (1 work) · Agricultural risk and resilience (1 work) · Animal science (1 work) · Anthropometry (1 work) · Biology (1 work)