Nava Ashraf

Biography

Research

• Commitment savings accounts may be attractive to women displaying hyperbolic discounting and are partly effective in increasing their saving rates ;
• Spouses' contributions to their household's income depend on which spouse is in control of the household's saving and spending and on whether information about spouses' incomes are private information;
• Most of the variance in trust between trust games and dictator games played in Russia, South Africa, and the United States, can be accounted by reciprocity expectations, with a smaller role for unconditional kindness, while variance in trustworthiness is mainly accounted for by unconditional kindness ;
• Women who are given concealable contraceptives in the presence of their husbands are 19% less likely to seek family planning services, 25% less likely to use the contraceptives, and 17% more likely to give birth ;
• Higher prices may stimulate the use of health products, e.g. home water purification solutions, in developing countries due to a screening effect but probably not because of psychological sunk cost effects.

  Awards

• Rising Star in Global Health : 2006
• Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for Service: 2003
• Order of British Columbia: 1995