Martine Visser
Martine Visser is Associate Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.
She received her doctoral degree in Economics from the University of Gothenburg in May 2007. Her dissertation combined behavioral and environmental economics, using economic experiments to study the role of social norms such as cooperation and social sanctioning on provision of public goods in unequal communities. ("Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental Evidence from South Africa."). One of her thesis projects dealt with inequality in the context of fishing rights and poaching behavior of nine fishing communities along the West Coast of South Africa, while the other focused on the role that social background has on cooperation and sanctioning behavior amongst teenagers from different ethnic populations in Cape Town.
Martine has taught a number of courses within the School of Economics, including: Micro-economics/Game Theory, Econometrics, Environmental Economics, and Resource Economics.
Her current research interests include behavioral and experimental research and specifically studying the role of social norms and its application to environment and natural resource use. She is currently working on various projects that consider the role of social norms and risk preferences on behavior of individuals confronted with climate variability and risk. Another line of research that she is pursuing involves the role of local governance and social institutions on the provision of basic services to the poor and its effects on subjective well-being.
Current research projects:
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Equity rules in the Climate Burden Sharing: Lab and Field Experiments from South Africa (with Kerri Brick (EPRU))
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Mitigation and Adaptation in a Social Dilemma setting of Climate Change using framed lab experiment (with Dr Asa Lofgren, EEU, Sweden and Reviva Hasson, UCT);
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Risk Preferences and Compliance Behavior: Experimental Evidence from South African Fishing Communities (with Associate Professor Justine Burns and Kerri Brick, UCT)).
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The Role Social Norms and Reference Points on Electricity Consumption: A Natural Field Experiment based in Cape Town (with Grant Smith, UCT);
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Risky Sex in a Risky World - Evidence from Young Adults in South Africa (Empirical study using the Cape Area Panel Study to investigate the role of uncertainty about future health and income on risky sexual behavior) (with Andrea Mannberg, Umea University, Sweden, and Dr Mintewab Bezabih, Portsmouth University, UK)
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Responses to Climate Risk: Field Experiments with small scale farmers from South Africa (with Kerri Brick and Feri Gwata (UCT)
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Wellbeing, Social Institutions and Basic Services – Empirical Evidence using the Cape Area Panel Study (Brennan Hodkinson, UCT)
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2010 Supervision Master and Phd students research projects: Phd Student Adewara Sunday: Public Goods in Nigeria , Master Student Feri Gatwa: Measuring risk aversion to climate change , Master Student Grant Smith: Experimental and Behavioural economics in public policy making
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