Lasha Lanchava's research while affiliated with Center for Economic Research & Graduate Education - Economics Institute and other places
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Publications (4)
Background:
Past research linked Toxoplasma gondii (TG) infection in humans with neurological and mental disorders (e.g., schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and attention disorders), irregularities of the dopaminergic and testosterone system, and increased likelihood of being involved in traffic accidents.
Methodology/principal findings:
We test...
This paper investigates the impact on university enrollment of an unconditional cash transfer in Georgia, designed to help households living below the subsistence level. The program, introduced in 2005, selects recipients based upon a quantitative poverty threshold, which gives us the ability to implement a regression discontinuity design. We use d...
In response to the problem of shrinking birthrates in the country, in October 2007, the head of the Georgian Orthodox church announced that he would personally baptize any third and further baby born to Orthodox families from that time. This study uses the initiative as a natural experiment to explore the economic consequences of religious activity...
This study is the first economic experiment that tests the economic significance of the theory of psychological reactance (Brehm, 1966). For this purpose, I design an economic experiment in which subjects are asked to express their valuation of two-choice situations. In one case, subjects are given absolute freedom, whereas in another, the extent o...
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... A noter toutefois qu'il s'agissait d'études de petite taille, qui contrôlaient imparfaitement l'ensemble des biais possibles.Une augmentation de la prise de risque, -qui serait le pendant de la néophobie et de l'anxiété diminuées chez le rongeur -, a également été rapportée chez des étudiants et des professionnels, notamment dans le cadre de l'entreprenariat et de la finance, ou après analyse des données de prévalence et de performances mondiales des entreprises (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor)[333]. A l'inverse, une petite étude cas-contrôle réalisée sur 79 étudiants ne retrouvait pas d'association entre séropositivité et prise de risque financier[334]. La présence d'ADN parasitaire dans les coupes de cerveaux lors d'autopsie a été décrite comme associée à un comportement à risque ayant conduit à la mort[169]. En revanche, une autre étude rétrospective sur 837 adultes n'objectivait pas d'association entre T. gondii et le développement de comportements violents[258].Ce lien entre prise de risque et infection latente a également été investigué pour sa contribution à la survenue d'accidents de la route (Annexe 6). ...