From the abstract: "Despite progress in recent years, however, little is known about how the human brain limits the impact of selfish motives and implements fair behavior. Here we show that disruption of the right, but not the left, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) by low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation substantially reduces subjects' willingness to reject their partners' intentionally unfair offers, which suggests that subjects are less able to resist the economic temptation to accept these offers."

Using data from rural Filipino households, examines how these households respond to shocks. The authors find the use of informal networks - family and friends - which offer flexible, zero interest loans.

From the abstract: "One of the most sizable and least predictable shocks to economic opportunities in developing countries is major illness.We investigate the extent to which families are able to insure consumption against major illness using a unique panel data set from Indonesia that combines excellent measures of health status with consumption information."

From the abstract: "This paper utilizes panel data from rural India to examine how the composition of asset holdings varies across farme rs with different levels of total wealth and across farmers facing different degrees of weather risk."