Kwacha Gonna Do? Experimental Evidence about Labor Supply in Rural Malawi
通过在马拉维农村进行田野实验，研究了日工资变化对就业率的影响，发现工资弹性很低，74%的人在最低工资下仍选择工作。
I use a field experiment to estimate the wage elasticity of employment in the day labor market in rural Malawi. Once a week for 12 consecutive weeks, I make job offers for a workfare-type program to 529 adults. The daily wage varies from the tenth to the ninetieth percentile of the wage distribution, and individuals are entitled to work a maximum of one day per week. In this context (the low agricultural season), 74 percent of individuals worked at the lowest wage, and consequently the estimated labor supply elasticity is low (0.15), regardless of observable characteristics.