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4 - Economics Experiments in Africa: How Many and by Whom?

  • Amma Panin
    Amma Panin Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7631-184X (unauthenticated)
    I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Louvain and I study how risk and uncertainty shape economic decision making. I have a particular interest in understanding how contemporary religious institutions evolve to provide substitutes to insurance and...
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  • Amma Panin, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

    I am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Louvain and I study how risk and uncertainty shape economic decision making. I have a particular interest in understanding how contemporary religious institutions evolve to provide substitutes to insurance and other services that might otherwise be provided by formal markets. I have experience running a variety of lab, field, and lab-type field experiments in what some coauthors insist on calling “exotic places”.

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