Laura Schechter

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Laura Schechter is a scholar working on Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Schechter has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Safety Research, 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Laura Schechter's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (12 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (7 papers). Laura Schechter is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (12 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (8 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (7 papers). Laura Schechter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Slovakia. Laura Schechter's co-authors include Ethan Ligon, Yating Chuang, Frederico Finan, George G. Judge, Bradford L. Barham, Jean‐Paul Chavas, Dylan Fitz, Julian Jamison, Dean Karlan and Robert Markley and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica and The Economic Journal.

In The Last Decade

Laura Schechter

47 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Vote-Buying and Reciprocity 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
    2012 234 citations Frederico Finan, Laura Schechter profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Schechter United States 20 578 539 474 367 236 52 1.8k
Nava Ashraf United States 19 683 1.2× 1.3k 2.4× 1.1k 2.4× 137 0.4× 76 0.3× 43 2.8k
Lorenzo Cappellari Italy 19 636 1.1× 1.1k 2.0× 143 0.3× 162 0.4× 158 0.7× 96 2.2k
Satya R. Chakravarty India 25 2.1k 3.6× 1.3k 2.3× 668 1.4× 274 0.7× 150 0.6× 89 3.0k
Peter G. Moffatt United Kingdom 18 243 0.4× 816 1.5× 596 1.3× 71 0.2× 49 0.2× 63 1.7k
Michael Callen United States 14 463 0.8× 340 0.6× 180 0.4× 153 0.4× 223 0.9× 38 1.1k
Frank Cowell United Kingdom 35 2.4k 4.2× 2.6k 4.7× 413 0.9× 130 0.4× 328 1.4× 141 4.3k
Charles Blackorby Canada 31 997 1.7× 2.7k 5.0× 267 0.6× 72 0.2× 236 1.0× 105 3.7k
Bernard Salanié United States 29 367 0.6× 2.2k 4.2× 293 0.6× 131 0.4× 67 0.3× 72 3.3k
Lars Lefgren United States 23 686 1.2× 727 1.3× 319 0.7× 59 0.2× 102 0.4× 44 2.9k
Isaac Ehrlich United States 22 1.1k 1.9× 1.5k 2.8× 168 0.4× 178 0.5× 107 0.5× 71 2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Schechter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Schechter

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Schechter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laura Schechter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laura Schechter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Laura Schechter. Laura Schechter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Finan, Frederico, et al.. (2025). Brokering Votes With Information Spread Via Social Networks. The Review of Economic Studies.
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Lipscomb, Molly, et al.. (2024). Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation. American Economic Journal Applied Economics. 16(3). 482–515.
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Finan, Frederico, et al.. (2024). Brokering Votes with Information Spread Via Social Networks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Houde, Jean‐François, et al.. (2022). Privatization of public goods: Evidence from the sanitation sector in Senegal. Journal of Development Economics. 160. 102971–102971. 5 indexed citations
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Schechter, Laura, et al.. (2022). Persuading voters to punish corrupt vote-buying candidates: Experimental evidence from a large-scale radio campaign in India. Journal of Development Economics. 160. 102976–102976. 2 indexed citations
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Houde, Jean‐François, et al.. (2022). Imperfect Competition and Sanitation: Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Lipscomb, Molly, et al.. (2019). Externalities and Spillovers from Sanitation and Waste Management in Urban and Rural Neighborhoods. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 42(3). 395–420. 16 indexed citations
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Lipscomb, Molly & Laura Schechter. (2018). Subsidies versus mental accounting nudges: Harnessing mobile payment systems to improve sanitation. Journal of Development Economics. 135. 235–254. 26 indexed citations
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Barham, Bradford L., Jean‐Paul Chavas, Dylan Fitz, & Laura Schechter. (2018). Receptiveness to advice, cognitive ability, and technology adoption. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 149. 239–268. 30 indexed citations
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Chuang, Yating & Laura Schechter. (2015). Stability of experimental and survey measures of risk, time, and social preferences: A review and some new results. Journal of Development Economics. 117. 151–170. 226 indexed citations
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Schechter, Laura, et al.. (2011). Inequality, Reciprocity, and Credit in Social Networks. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 94(2). 402–410. 12 indexed citations
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Finan, Frederico & Laura Schechter. (2011). Vote-Buying and Reciprocity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 27 indexed citations
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Ligon, Ethan & Laura Schechter. (2011). Motives for sharing in social networks. Journal of Development Economics. 99(1). 13–26. 76 indexed citations
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Schechter, Laura, et al.. (2011). Reciprocated Versus Unreciprocated Sharing in Social Networks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 9 indexed citations
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Schechter, Laura. (2007). Risk aversion and expected-utility theory: A calibration exercise. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 35(1). 67–76. 59 indexed citations
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Judge, George G. & Laura Schechter. (2007). Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford's Law. SSRN Electronic Journal. 10 indexed citations
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Jamison, Julian, Dean Karlan, & Laura Schechter. (2006). To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Schechter, Laura. (2006). Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty is its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Tomlinson, Sophie & Laura Schechter. (2005). Women on Stage in Stuart Drama. Renaissance and Reformation. 41(1). 127–129. 21 indexed citations
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Ligon, Ethan & Laura Schechter. (2004). Evaluating Different Approaches to Estimating Vulnerability. SSRN Electronic Journal. 34 indexed citations

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