Alistair Munro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alistair Munro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alistair |
| FAMILY NAME | Munro |
| SIGNATURE | MUNRO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3918-8701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Climate change and migration decisions: A choice experiment from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
The Link between Vulnerability to Poverty and Depression: Evidence from Vietnam
Vulnerability to poverty is a measure of the downside risk of falling into poverty. We examine the relationship between vulnerability to poverty and self-reported mental health, using a four-wave longitudinal panel from rural Vietnam. Our findings indicate that vulnerability to poverty has a significant and adverse connection with an index of depression. The impacts are not only statistically significant but also large. An increase in vulnerabili…
Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Underinvestment in agriculture – a major cause of rural poverty – may be due to difficulties in detecting ‘contingency’, defined as the influence one may exert on the outcome of a decision-making situation. Recently experienced contingency may create a mismatch between perceived and actual contingency in an investment decision-making situation, leading to sub-optimal investment behaviour. To test this, we use an experiment with poor farmers in Ug…
Spousal Control and Efficiency of Intra-household Decision-Making: Experiments among Married Couples in India, Ethiopia and Nigeria
Intra-household inequality, fairness and productivity. Evidence from a real effort experiment
The Lion's Share: An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria
We use simple public goods games to investigate spousal behavior in Kano, northern Nigeria, one of the modern heartlands of polygyny. Most partners keep back at least half of their endowment from the common pool, but we find no evidence that polygynous households are less efficient than their monogamous counterparts. When men control the allocation, equal treatment of wives is common, but senior wives often receive more from their husbands, no ma…
On the behavioural relevance of optional and mandatory impure public goods
Education subsidy and school enrollments in rural Ghana
The economics of nuclear decontamination: Assessing policy options for the management of land around Fukushima dai-ichi
Truck, barter and exchange versus the endowment effect: Virtual field experiments in an online game environment
Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda
The spatial impact of genetically modified crops
An Experiment on Risky Choice Amongst Households
A host of experiments have examined theories of risky choice using "individuals". However, many important economic decisions are taken within multi-adult "households". This paper reports on the first economic experiment designed to test theories of household choice. We use established couples and face them individually and jointly with decisions involving monetary payoffs. We find that joint choices typically are more risk averse than those made …
Testing Explanations of Preference Reversal
We present a new experimental investigation of preference reversal. Although economists and psychologists have suggested a variety of accounts for this phenomenon, the existing data do not adequately discriminate between them. Relative to previous studies, our design offers enhanced control for economic explanations and new tests of psychological hypotheses. We find a pattern of preference reversals that is inconsistent with all of the best‐known…
Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England” Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Evolutionary Game Theory
Journal Article Evolutionary Game Theory. Get access Evolutionary Game Theory. By Jorgen W. Weibull. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 265. £18.50 hardback. ISBN o 262 23181 6.) Alistair Munro Alistair Munro University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/107.440.218 Publis…
Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation
The existence of part–whole bias has been hotly disputed in the recent contingent valuation literature. This paper reports on an experiment into part–whole bias. Employing vouchers for parts of a restaurant meal and using an incentive compatible procedure, valuations of the parts and of the whole were elicited. The sum of the valuations of the parts consistently exceeded that of the whole, providing evidence of the existence of part–whole bias in…
Does Part–whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation
The existence of part–whole bias has been hotly disputed in the recent contingent valuation literature. This paper reports on an experiment into part–whole bias. Employing vouchers for parts of a restaurant meal and using an incentive compatible procedure, valuations of the parts and of the whole were elicited. The sum of the valuations of the parts consistently exceeded that of the whole, providing evidence of the existence of part–whole bias in…
Developments in Game Theory–a Review Article
Self-Selection and Optimal In-Kind Transfers
With in-kind transfer self-selection schemes, agents choose between a set level of public provision or buy freely from the private market. Housing, education, and healthcare are often of this form. The optimal design of these schemes is analyzed here. It is shown that when a charge can be levied for the transfer, an optimal scheme will nearly always raise welfare, while freely provided transfers are unlikely to improve upon optimal linear taxatio…
Childhood Parent-loss in a Psychiatrically Normal Population
There is a good deal of theoretical speculation in the psychiatric literature regarding the aetiological significance of childhood parent-loss in mental illness. Some of the speculation is undoubtedly based on a lack of appreciation of the extent to which childhood parental bereavement occurs in the general population. This article reports on a study which investigates childhood parent-loss in a group of individuals who have no history of serious…
Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda
Does Part–whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation
The existence of part–whole bias has been hotly disputed in the recent contingent valuation literature. This paper reports on an experiment into part–whole bias. Employing vouchers for parts of a restaurant meal and using an incentive compatible procedure, valuations of the parts and of the whole were elicited. The sum of the valuations of the parts consistently exceeded that of the whole, providing evidence of the existence of part–whole bias in…
An Experiment on Risky Choice Amongst Households
A host of experiments have examined theories of risky choice using "individuals". However, many important economic decisions are taken within multi-adult "households". This paper reports on the first economic experiment designed to test theories of household choice. We use established couples and face them individually and jointly with decisions involving monetary payoffs. We find that joint choices typically are more risk averse than those made …
Testing Explanations of Preference Reversal
We present a new experimental investigation of preference reversal. Although economists and psychologists have suggested a variety of accounts for this phenomenon, the existing data do not adequately discriminate between them. Relative to previous studies, our design offers enhanced control for economic explanations and new tests of psychological hypotheses. We find a pattern of preference reversals that is inconsistent with all of the best‐known…
Education subsidy and school enrollments in rural Ghana
Self-Selection and Optimal In-Kind Transfers
With in-kind transfer self-selection schemes, agents choose between a set level of public provision or buy freely from the private market. Housing, education, and healthcare are often of this form. The optimal design of these schemes is analyzed here. It is shown that when a charge can be levied for the transfer, an optimal scheme will nearly always raise welfare, while freely provided transfers are unlikely to improve upon optimal linear taxatio…
Spousal Control and Efficiency of Intra-household Decision-Making: Experiments among Married Couples in India, Ethiopia and Nigeria
Intra-household inequality, fairness and productivity. Evidence from a real effort experiment
The Lion's Share: An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria
We use simple public goods games to investigate spousal behavior in Kano, northern Nigeria, one of the modern heartlands of polygyny. Most partners keep back at least half of their endowment from the common pool, but we find no evidence that polygynous households are less efficient than their monogamous counterparts. When men control the allocation, equal treatment of wives is common, but senior wives often receive more from their husbands, no ma…
Truck, barter and exchange versus the endowment effect: Virtual field experiments in an online game environment
Evolutionary Game Theory
Journal Article Evolutionary Game Theory. Get access Evolutionary Game Theory. By Jorgen W. Weibull. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 265. £18.50 hardback. ISBN o 262 23181 6.) Alistair Munro Alistair Munro University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/107.440.218 Publis…
Childhood Parent-loss in a Psychiatrically Normal Population
There is a good deal of theoretical speculation in the psychiatric literature regarding the aetiological significance of childhood parent-loss in mental illness. Some of the speculation is undoubtedly based on a lack of appreciation of the extent to which childhood parental bereavement occurs in the general population. This article reports on a study which investigates childhood parent-loss in a group of individuals who have no history of serious…
Developments in Game Theory–a Review Article
Self-Selection and Optimal In-Kind Transfers
With in-kind transfer self-selection schemes, agents choose between a set level of public provision or buy freely from the private market. Housing, education, and healthcare are often of this form. The optimal design of these schemes is analyzed here. It is shown that when a charge can be levied for the transfer, an optimal scheme will nearly always raise welfare, while freely provided transfers are unlikely to improve upon optimal linear taxatio…
Evolutionary Game Theory
Journal Article Evolutionary Game Theory. Get access Evolutionary Game Theory. By Jorgen W. Weibull. (Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1995. Pp. xv + 265. £18.50 hardback. ISBN o 262 23181 6.) Alistair Munro Alistair Munro University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 440, 1 January 1997, Pages 218–219, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/107.440.218 Publis…
Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation
The existence of part–whole bias has been hotly disputed in the recent contingent valuation literature. This paper reports on an experiment into part–whole bias. Employing vouchers for parts of a restaurant meal and using an incentive compatible procedure, valuations of the parts and of the whole were elicited. The sum of the valuations of the parts consistently exceeded that of the whole, providing evidence of the existence of part–whole bias in…
Does Part–whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation
The existence of part–whole bias has been hotly disputed in the recent contingent valuation literature. This paper reports on an experiment into part–whole bias. Employing vouchers for parts of a restaurant meal and using an incentive compatible procedure, valuations of the parts and of the whole were elicited. The sum of the valuations of the parts consistently exceeded that of the whole, providing evidence of the existence of part–whole bias in…
Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England” Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Testing Explanations of Preference Reversal
We present a new experimental investigation of preference reversal. Although economists and psychologists have suggested a variety of accounts for this phenomenon, the existing data do not adequately discriminate between them. Relative to previous studies, our design offers enhanced control for economic explanations and new tests of psychological hypotheses. We find a pattern of preference reversals that is inconsistent with all of the best‐known…
An Experiment on Risky Choice Amongst Households
A host of experiments have examined theories of risky choice using "individuals". However, many important economic decisions are taken within multi-adult "households". This paper reports on the first economic experiment designed to test theories of household choice. We use established couples and face them individually and jointly with decisions involving monetary payoffs. We find that joint choices typically are more risk averse than those made …
The spatial impact of genetically modified crops
Do Spouses Realise Cooperative Gains? Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda
Truck, barter and exchange versus the endowment effect: Virtual field experiments in an online game environment
The economics of nuclear decontamination: Assessing policy options for the management of land around Fukushima dai-ichi
Education subsidy and school enrollments in rural Ghana
On the behavioural relevance of optional and mandatory impure public goods
Spousal Control and Efficiency of Intra-household Decision-Making: Experiments among Married Couples in India, Ethiopia and Nigeria
Intra-household inequality, fairness and productivity. Evidence from a real effort experiment
The Lion's Share: An Experimental Analysis of Polygamy in Northern Nigeria
We use simple public goods games to investigate spousal behavior in Kano, northern Nigeria, one of the modern heartlands of polygyny. Most partners keep back at least half of their endowment from the common pool, but we find no evidence that polygynous households are less efficient than their monogamous counterparts. When men control the allocation, equal treatment of wives is common, but senior wives often receive more from their husbands, no ma…
The Link between Vulnerability to Poverty and Depression: Evidence from Vietnam
Vulnerability to poverty is a measure of the downside risk of falling into poverty. We examine the relationship between vulnerability to poverty and self-reported mental health, using a four-wave longitudinal panel from rural Vietnam. Our findings indicate that vulnerability to poverty has a significant and adverse connection with an index of depression. The impacts are not only statistically significant but also large. An increase in vulnerabili…
Agricultural investment behaviour and contingency: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Underinvestment in agriculture – a major cause of rural poverty – may be due to difficulties in detecting ‘contingency’, defined as the influence one may exert on the outcome of a decision-making situation. Recently experienced contingency may create a mismatch between perceived and actual contingency in an investment decision-making situation, leading to sub-optimal investment behaviour. To test this, we use an experiment with poor farmers in Ug…
Climate change and migration decisions: A choice experiment from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Economics (19 works) · Microeconomics (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Public economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Context (archaeology (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (4 works)