Information and collective action in the community-based monitoring of schools: Field and lab experimental evidence from Uganda

Professor Abigail Barr is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham.

Her research focuses on the socially embedded decision-maker.  Four themes have dominated her work to date: the role of other-regarding preferences in individual decision-making; how people set up and hold each other to mutually beneficial agreements; citizens' willingness and ability to hold public service providers to account; and the factors and mechanisms determining individual preferences and values.

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The paper to be given in this seminar was written with Frederick Mugisha, EPRC and Uganda Ministry of Finance; Pieter Serneels, University of East Anglia; and Andrew Zeitlin, Georgetown University and CGD.

This event is hosted jointly with the Department of Economics and Related Studies.