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Laura Schechter

Global rank #2709 96%

Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Primary Field: Development (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://aae.wisc.edu/lschechter/

First Publication: 2006

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: psc469 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.50 1.91 1.17 0.00 7.00
Last 10 Years 0.50 2.92 2.68 0.00 10.52
All Time 2.51 7.94 7.78 0.00 33.72

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 18
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 18.31

Publications (18)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Informal Contracts in an Incomplete Market: The Price of Milk in Paraguay Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
2024 Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 4
2023 Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal Journal of Development Economics A 5
2023 Persuading voters to punish corrupt vote-buying candidates: Experimental evidence from a large-scale radio campaign in India Journal of Development Economics A 2
2022 Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2021 Information Technology and Government Decentralization: Experimental Evidence From Paraguay Econometrica S 4
2020 Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions in Rural Paraguay Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2
2018 Receptiveness to advice, cognitive ability, and technology adoption Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2018 Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation Journal of Development Economics A 2
2015 Stability of experimental and survey measures of risk, time, and social preferences: A review and some new results Journal of Development Economics A 2
2014 The roles of risk and ambiguity in technology adoption Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 5
2012 Motives for sharing in social networks Journal of Development Economics A 2
2009 Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford’s Law Journal of Human Resources A 2
2008 To deceive or not to deceive: The effect of deception on behavior in future laboratory experiments Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2007 Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty Is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay American Economic Review S 1
2007 Traditional trust measurement and the risk confound: An experiment in rural Paraguay Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
2007 Risk aversion and expected-utility theory: A calibration exercise Journal of Risk and Uncertainty B 1
2006 Trust, trustworthiness, and risk in rural Paraguay Experimental Economics A 1