
Laura Schechter
Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Laura Schechter is a professor in the Agricultural and Applied Economics and Economics departments at UW Madison. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC-Berkeley. She is a development economist with interest in behavioral economics, experimental economics, and political economy.
Recent work by Laura Schechter
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Persuading voters in India to punish vote-buying candidates
A radio campaign highlighting the costs of vote buying drew close to 3 million votes away from vote-buying parties
Articles : Institutions & Political Economy
Laura Schechter Srinivasan Vasudevan
Published 12.09.23
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The impact of privatising the management of a sanitation utility: Evidence from Senegal
Privatising sludge treatment centres improves sanitation outcomes and reduces desludging prices without concentrating market power
Articles : Infrastructure & Urbanisation
Joshua Deutschmann Jared Gars Jean-François Houde Molly Lipscomb Laura Schechter
Published 30.05.22
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Using mobile money to improve access to sanitation services in Dakar
Subsidies see a greater take up of mechanised latrine desludging than mental accounting nudges for better public health
Molly Lipscomb Laura Schechter
Published 12.11.18
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Decentralisation under changing state capacity: Experimental evidence from Paraguay
Decentralising the monitoring of public sector workers is cost-effective, but as central state capacity increases this advantage disappears
Ernesto Dal Bó Frederico Finan Nicholas Li Laura Schechter
Published 08.10.18