Associate Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
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| Telephone: |
(608) 262-9482 |
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(608) 262-4376 |
| Office Address: |
334 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI 53706 |
| Interests: |
Development economics; behavioral/experimental economics; risk analysis. |
My research lies at the intersection of development economics and behavioral economics. In particular I focus on the interrelated areas of trust and trustworthiness, and risk and vulnerability.
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
B.A., Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1996
Recent Publications
- George Judge and Laura Schechter. 2009. "Detecting Problems in Survey Data using Benford’s Law" Journal of Human Resources 44(1):1-24
- Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan, and Laura Schechter. 2008. "To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 68(3-4):477-488
- Laura Schechter. 2007. "Traditional Trust Measurement and the Risk Confound: An Experiment in Rural Paraguay" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 62(2):272-292
- Laura Schechter. 2007. "Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty is its own Reward in Rural Paraguay" American Economic Review 97(5):1560-1582
- Laura Schechter. 2007. "Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory: A Calibration Exercise" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 35(1):67-76