New blog from the World Bank MAGNET team:
"Psychological constructs related to agency—goal-setting capacity, self-efficacy, locus of control—are linked to economic outcomes and well-being across a growing body of evidence. But the tools we use to measure them were developed and validated in Western, high-income contexts. Using them as-is in lower-income settings risks measuring the wrong thing or measuring the right thing badly.
"In a new working paper, we introduce and validate four scales built for lower-income settings: goal-setting capacity (GSC), agricultural self-efficacy (AGSE), generalized livelihoods self-efficacy (GLSE), and a short-form locus of control (S-LOC). Each targets a construct that is both foundational to individual agency and empirically linked to socioeconomic outcomes.
International Food Policy Research Institute