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2024-033: Stopping Rule as Sex-Selective Abortions and Instrumental Births. A Unified Framework and World Evidence; Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan, Francois Woitrin - July 2024
2024-032: Integrating Mortality into Poverty Measurement through the Poverty Adjusted Life Expectancy Index; Benoit Decerf, Guilhem Cassan, Jean-Marie Baland - October 2024
2024-031: ‘Made in Dignity’: the Tedistributive Impact of Fair Trade; Jean-Marie Baland, Francois Woitrin, Cedric Duprez, Wouter Gelade - October 2024
2024-030: Competitive Capture of Public Opinion; Ricardo Alonso, Gerard Padró i Miquel - June 2023
2024-029: Exporting Ideology: The Right and Left of Foreign Influence; Paul Antras, Gerard Padró i Miquel - August 2023
2024-028: Social Status, Economic Development and Female Labor Force (Non) Participation; Kaivan Munshi, Swapnil Singh - September 2024
2024-027: State Repression, Exit, and Voice: Living in the Shadow of Cambodia’s Killing Fields; Mathias Bühler, Andreas Madestam - May 2023
2024-026: Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change; James Albrecht, Jiwon Lee, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Thoursie, Raquel Fernandez, Susan Vroman - August 2024
2024-025: Blue Spoons: Sparking Communication About Appropriate Technology Use; Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Michael Kremer, Joao Pugliese, Jonathan Robinson, And Frank Schilbach - August 2022
2024-024: Sectoral Development Multipliers; Francisco Buera, Nicholas Trachter - February 2024
2024-023: Income and inequality under asymptotically full automation; Philip Bond, Lukas Kremens - September 2024
2024-022: Marriage Market Equilibrium with Matching on Latent Ability: Identification using a Compulsory Schooling Expansion; Dan Anderberg, Jesper Bagger, V. Bhaskar, Tanya Wilson - August 2022
2024-021: Strategic Parental Investments in a Competitive Marriage Market; V. Bhaskar, Wenchao Li, Junjian Yi - April 2023
2024-020: Long Wars; Sandeep Baliga, Tomas Sjostrom - October 2023
2024-019: Border Walls; Treb Allen, Cauê Dobbin, Melanie Morten - April 2024
2024-018: The Topography of Nations; Treb Allen - October 2023
2024-017: Comparison of Screening Devices; Frank Yang, Piotr Dworczak, Mohammad Akbarpour - December 2023
2024-016: Altruism Networks and Economic Relations; Yann Bramoulle, Rachel E. Kranton - July 2022
2024-015: Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India; Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari, Maitreesh Ghatak - November 2023
2024-014: Empowerment or Financialization? The Gains from Financial Inclusion; Timothy Besley, Konrad Burchardi, Maitreesh Ghatak, Linchuan Xu - July 2024
2024-013: Pack-Crack-Pack: Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout; Laurent Bouton, Garance Genicot, Micael Castanheira, Allison Stashko - October 2024
2024-012: A Theory of Minimalist Democracy; Chris Bidner, Patrick Francois, Francesco Trebbi - August 2024
2024-011: A Theory of Elite-Initiated Democratization, Illustrated With the Case of Myanmar; James D. Fearon, Patrick Francois - May 2022
2024-010: Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms; Siwan Anderson, Chris Bidner, Clementine Sadania - September 2021
2024-009: Marital Matching and the Distribution of Innate Ability; Chris Bidner, John Knowles - June 2022
2024-008: Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor; Natalie Bau, Martin Rotemberg, Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg - May 2024
2024-007: The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations; Stephen Ayerst, Duc Nguyen, Diego Restuccia - July 2024
2024-006: Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis; Stephen Ayerst, Loren Brandt,Diego Restuccia - May 2024
2024-005: Populism and War; Andrea Mattozzi, Massimo Morelli, Marcos Y. Nakaguma - October 2024
2024-004: Fighting competition from Mobile Network Operators in the banking sector: The case of Kenya; Emmanuelle Auriol, Alexia Gonzalez Fanfalone - September 2024
2024-003: Decentralization in Autocraties; Emmanuelle Auriol, Anais Dahmani-Scuitti - December 2022
2024-002: Social Structure, State, and Economic Activity; Yann Bramoulle, Sanjeev Goyal, Massimo Morelli - April 2024
2024-001: Misallocation Implications of Security and Collateral Value of Land; Maitreesh Ghatak, Dilip Mookherjee - April 2024
2023-001: The Wrongs of Property Rights: The Erosion of Indigenous Communal Land Rights and its Welfare Consequences; Mukesh Eswaran - February 2023
2022-020: Interactions across Multiple Games: Cooperation, Corruption, and Organizational Design; Jonathan Bendor, Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica, Matthew O. Jackson - October 2022
2022-019: Trucks; Treb Allen, David Atkin - October 2022
2022-018: Corruption and Extremism; Attila Gaspar, Tommaso Giommoni, Massimo Morelli, Antonio Nicolò - September 2022
2022-017: The Distribution of Crisis Credit: Effects on Firm Indebtedness and Aggregate Risk; Federico Huneeus, Joseph P. Kaboski, Mauricio Larrain, Sergio L. Schmukler, Mario Vera - September 2022
2022-016: Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments; Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello, Guillermo Noguera - August 2022
2022-015: Stay, Split or Strike: Theory and Evidence on Secessionist vs Centrist Conflict; Joan Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli, Dominic Rohner - August 2022
2022-014: The Dark Side of Transparency: Mission Variety and Industry Equilibrium in Decentralized Public Good Provision; Gani Aldashev, Esteban Jaimovichy, Thierry Verdierz - August 2022
2022-013: The Poverty-Adjusted Life Expectancy index: a consistent aggregation of the quantity and the quality of life; Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan, Benoit Decerf - July 2022
2022-012: A Simple Mapping from MPCs to MPXs; David Laibson, Peter Maxted, and Benjamin Moll - June 2022
2022-011: Uneven Growth: Automation’s Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality; Benjamin Moll, Lukasz Rachel, Pascual Restrepo - June 2022
2022-010: Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets; Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo, Matthew O. Jackson & Cynthia Kinnan - June 2022
2022-009: Political Quotas and Governance; Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois - June 2022
2022-008: A Commitment Theory of Populism; Massimo Morelli, Antonio Nicol`o, Paolo Roberti - May 2022
2022-007: Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers; Louise Guillouët, Amit K. Khandelwal, Rocco Macchiavello, and Matthieu Teachout - May 2022
2022-006: Market Size, Markups, and International Price Dispersion in the Cement Industry; Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello, and Tristan Reed - May 2022
2022-005: Wealth Dynamics in Communities; Daniel Barron, Yingni Guo, and Bryony Reich - March 2022
2022-004: How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda; Joseph P. Kaboski, Molly Lipscomb, Virgiliu Midrigan, Carolyn Pelnik - February 2022
2022-003: Multidimensional Pre-Marital Investments with Imperfect Commitment; V. Bhaskar, Wenchao Li, Junjian Yi - January 2022
2022-002: Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed; Daniel J. Agness, Travis Baseler, Sylvain Chassang, Pascaline Dupas & Erik Snowberg - January 2022
2022-001: Consensus and Disagreement: Information Aggregation under (not so) Naive Learning; Abhijit Banerjee and Olivier Compte - January 2022
2021-012: The Stable Transformation Path; Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski, Martí Mestieri & Daniel G. O'Connor - December 2021
2021-011: How do Voters Respond to Welfare vis-à-vis Public Good Programs? An Empirical Test of Political Clientelism; Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, and Anusha Nath - September 2021
2021-010: Threats to Commitment: Contracting with Present-Biased Consumers under Renegotiation Concerns; Karna Basu, Jonathan Conning - August 2021
2021-009: Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions; Gani Aldashev and Giorgio Zanarone - August 2021
2021-008: The Economics of Corporate Liability and Enforcement; Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng, Tina Søreide - July 2021
2021-007: Can For-Profit Business Alleviate Extreme Poverty in Developing Countries？; Mukesh Eswaran - July 2021
2021-006: Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy; David Laibson, Peter Maxted, Benjamin Moll - June 2021
2021-005: A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision; Nicola Persico - September 2023
2021-004: Could Gentrification Stop the Poor from Benefiting from Urban Improvements; Clare Balboni, Gharad Bryan, Melanie Morten and Bilal Siddiqi - May 2021
2021-003: The Role of Finance in the Process of Development: Improving Access versus Reducing Frictions; Timothy Besley, Konrad Burchardi, Maitreesh Ghatak - April 2021
2021-002: Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development; Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski, Bruno Martins, Cezar Santos - March 2021
2021-001: Big Push in Distorted Economies; Francisco J. Buera, Hugo Hopenhayn, Yongseok Shin & Nicholas Trachter - March 2021
2020-007: Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information; Attila Ambrus, Wayne Y. Gao, Pau Milán - December 2020
2020-006: Transportation, Gentrification, and Urban Mobility: The Inequality Effects of Place-Based Policies; Clare Balboni, Gharad Bryan, Melanie Morten, Bilal Siddiqi - October 2020
2020-005: Group Lending in Theory and Practice; Christian Ahlin, Godwin Debrah - September 2020
2020-004: The Stable Transformation Path; Francisco J. Buera, Joseph Kaboski, Mart ́ı Mestieri, Daniel G. O’Connor - August 2020
2020-003: Sex-Selective Abortions and Instrumental Births as the two faces of the Stopping Rule. New measures and world evidence; Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan, Francois Woitrin - August 2020
2020-002: The Quran and the Sword -The Strategic Game Between Autocratic Power, the Military and the Clerics; AURIOL Emmanuelle, Jean-Philippe PLATTEAU and Thierry VERDIER - May 2020
2020-001: Optimal Pricing of a New Utility Service: The Case of Piped Water in Vietnam; Quy-Toan Do, Hanan Jacoby - April 2020
2019-007: Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning; Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Golub & He Yang - October 2019
2019-006: Marriage Timing and Forward Contracts in Marriage Markets; Gani Aldashev, Zaki Wahhajy - October 2019
2019-005: Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?; Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Esther Duflo, Cynthia Kinnan - October 2019
2019-004: The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India; Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Daniel Keniston & Nina Singh - September 2019
2019-003: Buyer-Driven Upgrading in GVCs: The Sustainable Quality Program in Colombia; Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa - August 2019
2019-002: The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV; Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara, and Victor H. Orozco-Olvera - July 2019
2019-001: Allocating essential inputs; Patrick Rey and David Salant - June 2019
2018-023: Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Increase the Share of Governance-Improving Countries; François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau - September 2018
2018-022: Vertical Integration and Inter-Firm Relationships in the Costa Rica Coffee Chain; Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa - July 2018
2018-021: Stay, Split or Strike: Theory and Evidence on Secessionist vs Centrist Conflict; Joan Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner - May 2022
2018-020: Searching for Policy Reforms; Avidit Acharya and Juan Ortner - August 2018
2018-019: Narratives, Imperatives and Moral Reasoning; Roland Bénabou, Armin Falk and Jean Tirole - August 2018
2018-018: The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-off; Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao - November 2017
2018-017: Social Diversity and Bridging Identity; Marìa D.C. Garcìa-Alonso and Zaki Wahhaj - February 2018
2018-016: Roadways, Input Sourcing and Patterns of Specialisation; Esteban Jaimovich - February 2018
2018-015: The Interaction of Communities, Religion, Government, and Corruption in the Enforcement of Contracts and Social Norms; Matthew O. Jackson and Yiqing Xing - April 2018
2018-014: A Typology of Social Capital and Associated Network Measures; Matthew O. Jackson - March 2018
2018-013: Behavioral Communities and the Atomic Structure of Networks; Matthew O. Jackson and Evan C. Storms - April 2018
2018-012: Decentralized Terrorism and Social Identity; Mukesh Eswaran and Hugh M. Neary - February 2018
2018-011: Competing Teams; Hector Chade and Jan Eeckhout - March 2018
2018-010: The Global Diffusion of Ideas; Francisco J. Buera and Ezra Oberfield - July 2017
2018-009: The Culture of Overconfidence; V. Bhaskar and Caroline Thomas - July 2018
2018-008: Community enforcement of trust with bounded memory; V. Bhaskar and Caroline Thomas - June 2018; Note: Updated version dated 01 October 2018 available here.
2018-007: The Strategy and Technology of Conflict; Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom - March 2018; Note: Updated version dated December 9, 2019 available here.
2018-006: Investments in Social Ties, Risk Sharing and Inequality; Attila Ambrus, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Matt Elliott, Erica Field and Rohini Pande - October 2017
2018-005: Adverse Selection in Distributive Politics; S. Nageeb Ali, Maximilian Mihm and Lucas Siga - March 2018
2018-004: Samaritan Bundles: Inefficient Clusterings in NGO Projects; Gani Aldashev, Marco Marini and Thierry Verdier - March 2017
2018-003: Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation; Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen - May 2018
2018-002: Capital and Inequality in the Long Run: Automation without technical progress; Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray - December 2017
2018-001: Intra-household bargaining in poor countries; Jean-Marie Baland and Roberta Ziparo - April 2017
2017-016: Hierarchical Control Rights and Strong Collusion; Dilip Mookherjee and Masatoshi Tsumagari - June 2017
2017-015: Erasing Ethnicity? Nation Building, (Mis)Trust and the Salience of Identity in Rwanda; Arthur Blouin and Sharun W. Mukand - June 2017
2017-014: Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh; M. Shahe Emran, Dilip Mookherjee, Forhad Shilpi and M. Helal Uddin - May 14, 2017; Note: Updated version dated July, 2021 available here.
2017-013: Wealth, Marriage, and Sex Selection; Girija Borker, Jan Eeckhout, Nancy Luke, Shantidani Minz and Kaivan Munshi - May 12, 2017; Note: Updated version dated January 20, 2022 available here.
2017-012: When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality; SeHyoun Ahn, Greg Kaplan, Benjamin Moll, Thomas Winberry and Christian Wolf - May 11, 2017
2017-011: Clientelistic Politics and Economic Development: An Overview; Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee - May 2017; Note: Updated version dated August 2018 available here.
2017-010: Factions in Nondemocracies: Theory and Evidence from the Chinese Communist Party; Patrick Francois, Francesco Trebbi and Kairong Xiao - May 2017; Note: Updated version dated December 2017 available here.
2017-009: Asset Transfers and Household Neediness; Elliott Collins and Ethan Ligon - April 10, 2017
2017-008: Charitable Giving, Signalling and Microcredit; Mahreen Mahmud and Zaki Wahhaj - April 2017
2017-007: College Admission and High School Integration; Fernanda Estevan, Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew F. Newman - March 20, 2017
2017-006: Bypassing Intermediaries via Vertical Integration: A Transaction-Cost-Based Theory; Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Masatoshi Tsumagari - March 1, 2017
2017-005: The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy; Sharun W. Mukand and Dani Rodrik - March 2017
2017-004: The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil; Garance Genicot, Anna Maria Mayda, and Mariapia Mendola - March 2017
2017-003: Persistence of Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policies - Discussion; Maitreesh Ghatak - February 12, 2017
2017-002: Economic determinants of the Maoist Conflict in India; Maitreesh Ghatak and Oliver Vanden Eynde - February 9, 2017
2017-001: Reservations and the Politics of Fear; Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois - February 2017
2016-071: Growth Policy, Agglomeration and (the Lack of) Competition; Wyatt J. Brooks, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yao Amber Li - December 15, 2016; Note: Updated version dated January 2018 available here.
2016-070: Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets; Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja - November 2016
2016-069: E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India; Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Clement Imbert, Santhosh Mathew and Rohini Pande - October 27, 2016
2016-068: Groups in Conflict: Size Matters, But Not In The Way You Think; Laura Mayoral and Debraj Ray - October 2016
2016-067: From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application; Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukerji, Marc Shotland and Michael Walton - September 2016
2016-066: The Long term Impacts of a “Graduation” Program: Evidence from West Bengal; Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay and Jeremy Shapiro - September 2016
2016-065: Repayment Frequency in Lending Contracts; Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak - September 2016
2016-064: Violence against Rich Ethnic Minorities: a Theory of Instrumental Scapegoating; Yann Bramoullé and Pauline Morault - August 2016; Note: Updated version dated 18 January 2021 available here.
2016-063: Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India; Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukerji, Marc Shotland and Michael Walton - August 2016
2016-062: Firm and Market Response to Saving Constraints: Evidence from the Kenyan Dairy Industry; Lorenzo Casaburi and Rocco Macchiavello - July 30, 2016
2016-061: Profït with Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise; Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak - July 28, 2016
2016-060: Taking Stock of the Evidence on Micro-Financial Interventions; Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Shin - June 2016
2016-059: Sale of visas: a smuggler's final song?; Emmanuelle Auriol and Alice Mesnard - May 2016
2016-058: A Model of Protests, Revolution, and Information; Salvador Barbera and Matthew O. Jackson - May 2016
2016-057: Economic Development, Flow of Funds, and the Equilibrium Interaction of Financial Frictions; Benjamin Moll, Robert M. Townsend and Victor Zhorin - March 27, 2016
2016-056: Involuntary Entrepreneurship – Evidence from Thai Urban Data; Alexander Karaivanov and Tenzin Yindok - March 2016; Note: Updated version dated February 2017 available here.
2016-055: Commercialization and the Decline of Joint Liability Microcredit; Jonathan de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer and Maitreesh Ghatak - February 29, 2016; Note: Updated version dated May, 2018 available here.
2016-054: Ostracism and Forgiveness; S. Nageeb Ali and David A. Miller - February 8, 2016
2016-053: The Economics Consequences of Social Network Structure; Matthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers and Yves Zenou - February 2016
2016-052: Group Lending, Matching Patterns, and the Mystery of Microcredit: Evidence from Thailand; Christian Ahlin - January 2016; Note: Updated version dated May 2020 available here.
2016-051: A Delegation-Based Theory of Expertise; Attila Ambrus, Volodymyr Baranovskyi and Aaron Kolb - 2015
2016-050: The Echo Chamber Effect: Segregation, Polarisation, and Discrimination; Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin - 2016
2016-049: Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia; Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto - November 2015; Note: Updated version dated July 2016 available here.
2016-048: Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Appreticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy; David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr - March 2016
2016-047: Bargaining over Babies: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications; Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann - March 2016; Note: Updated version dated September 2019 available here.
2016-046: Supply Assurance, Relational Contracts and Vertical Integrations: Evidence from Costa Rica's Coffee Chain; Rocco Macchiavello and Josepa Miquel-Florensa - November 2015; Note: Updated version dated November 2016 available here.
2016-045: A Behavioral Model of Simultaneous Borrowing and Saving; Karna Basu - October 27, 2015
2016-044: Invalid Ballots and Electoral Competition; Gani Aldashev and Giovanni Mastrobuoni - October 24, 2015
2016-043: Collusion in Auctions with Constrained Bids: Theory and Evidence from Public Procurement; Sylvain Chassang and Juan Ortner - October 20, 2015
2016-042: Weak Ex Ante Collusion and Design of Supervisory Institutions; Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Masatoshi Tsumagari - October 18, 2015
2016-041: The Savings Multiplier; Halvor Mehlum, Ragnar Torvik and Simone Valente - October 13, 2015
2016-040: Insiders and Outsiders: Local Ethnic Politics and Public Good Provision; Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig - October 2015
2016-039: The Political Economy of Religion, Individual Liberties, and Redistribution; Joan Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral - September 24, 2015
2016-038: Personal Liberties, Religiosity, and Effort; Joan Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral - January 15, 2016
2016-037: The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity; Raquel Fernández and Alberto Martin - September 2015
2016-036: The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy; Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik - September 2015
2016-035: Career Women and the Durability of Marriage; Andrew F. Newman and Claudia Olivetti - December 20, 1205
2016-034: Optimal Development Policies with Financial Frictions; Oleg Itskhoki and Benjamin Moll - August 26, 2015; Note: Updated version dated January 2018 available here.
2016-033: Skill-Biased Structural Change; Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Richard Rogerson - August 25, 2015
2016-032: Testing Models of Social Learning on Networks: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field; Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Horacio Larreguy and Juan Pablo Xandri - May 2016
2016-031: Social Investments, Informal Risk Sharing, and Inequality; Attila Ambrus, Arun G Chandrasekhar and Matt Elliott - July 13, 2015
2016-030: Social Status in Networks; Nicole Immorlica, Rachel Kranton, Mihai Manea and Greg Stoddard - July 8, 2015
2016-029: Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws; Daron Acemoglu and Matthew O. Jackson - January 2016
2016-028: Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia; Vivi Alatas, Abhijit Bannerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken - December 2015
2016-027: Social Networks. Reputation and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment; Emily Breza and Arun G. Chandrasekhar - July 2015
2016-026: Network Centrality and Informal Institutions: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field; Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Horacio Larreguy - May 2016
2016-025: The Dynamics of Inequality; Xavier Gabaix, Jean-Michel Lasry, Pierre-Louis Lions and Benjamin Moll - December 24, 2015
2016-024: Two-sided Altruism and Signaling; Garance Genicot - June 2015
2016-023: Moral Hazard in High Office and the Dynamics of Aristocracy; Roger B. Myerson - June 2015
2016-022: Making Collusion Hard: Asymmetric Information as a Counter-Corruption Measure; Juan Ortner and Sylvain Chassang - May 31, 2014
2016-021: Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape; Attila Ambrus, Erica Field, and Robert Gonzalez - May 20, 2015
2016-020: The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse; James A Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Thierry Verdier - May 2015
2016-019: Pirates of the Mediterranean: An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining with Asymmetric Information; Attila Ambrus, Eric Chaney and Igor Salitskiy - April 7, 2015
2016-018: Local Agency Costs of Political Centralization; Roger Myerson - December 2015
2016-017: Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth; Roland Bénabou, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni - March 2015
2016-016: Non-grant Microfinance, Incentives, and Efficiency; Alexander Karaivanov - March 2016; Note: Updated version dated February 2017 available here.
2016-015: Bogus Joint Liability Groups in Microfinance - Theory and Evidence from China; Alexander Karaivanov, Xiaochuan Xing and Yi Xue - March 2016
2016-014: The Power of Transparency: Information, Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia; Abhijit Banerjee, Rema Hanna, Jordan Kyle, Benjamin A. Olken, and Sudarno Sumarto - February 2015
2016-013: College Diversity and Investment Incentives; Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros and Andrew F. Newman - December 2015; Note: Updated version dated November 2017 available here.
2016-012: Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills; Rocco Macchiavello and Ameet Morjaria - December 23, 2014
2016-011: Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility; Matthias Doepke and Fabian Kindermann - December 2014
2016-010: Rewards and Punishments: Informal Contracting through Social Preferences; Sylvain Chassang and Christian Zehnder - October 7, 2014
2016-009: Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network; Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew O. Jackson - August 2014
2016-008: Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks; Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot and Alice Mesnard - August 2014
2016-007: Identity and Terrorism; Mukesh Eswaran and Hugh Neary - August 2014
2016-006: Networks and Missallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap; Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig - July 2014
2016-005: Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unveriable Reports; Sylvain Chassang and Gerard PadróI Miquel - June 15, 2014
2016-004: Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation; Pierre Dubois, Olivier de Mouzon, Fiona Scott-Morton and Paul Seabright - March 2014
2016-003: Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes; Raquel Fernández and Joyce Cheng Wong - February 2014
2016-002: Smoking within the Household: Spousal Peer Effects and Children's Health Implications; Chiara Canta and Pierre Dubois - 2014
2016-001: Laws and Norms; Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole - November 2011
2014-035: A Pareto Efficiency Rationale for the Welfare State; Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Napel - March 3, 2014
2014-034: Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India; Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria - May 2014; Note: Updated version dated March 2017 available here.
2014-033: The Macroeconomics of Microfinance; Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Yongseok Kim - May 25, 2014; Note: Updated version dated May 17,2017 available here.
2014-032: Group Formation with Fixed Group Size: Complementarity vs Substitutability; Christian Ahlin - March 2014; Note: Updated version dated March 2014 available here.
2014-031: The Leader as Catalyst: On Mass Movements and the Mechanics of Institutional Change; Sumon Majumdar and Sharon Mukand
2014-030: Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining; S. Nageeb Ali, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Xiaoxhen Fan - January 18, 2014
2014-029: Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control; Karna Basu, Kaushik Basu and Tito Cordella - June 23, 2014
2014-028: Investing in Skill and Searching for Coworkers: Endogenous Participation in a Matching Market; Chris Bidner, Jessica Moses and Guillaume Roger - June 8, 2014
2014-027: The Dictator's Inner Circle; Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer and Francesco Trebbi - June 2014
2014-026: Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission; Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti - June 2014
2014-025: Social Learning with Endogenous Information; S. Nageeb Ali - May 23, 2014
2014-024: Nit-Piketty; Debraj Ray - May 23, 2014
2014-023: Commons without Tragedy: Sampling Dynamics and Cooperative Resource Extraction; Juan Camilo Cárdenas, César Mantilla and Rajiv Sethi - May 12, 2014
2014-022: Resource Concentration and Civil Wars; Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner - May 5, 2014
2014-021: Economic Distress and Farmer Suicides in India: An Econometric Investigation; Stefan Klonner and Sarah Hebous - May 2014
2014-020: Safety Net for India's Poor or Waste of Public Funds? Poverty and Welfare in the Wake of the World's Largest Job Guarantee Program; Stefan Klonner and Christin Oldiges - May 2014
2014-019: To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda; Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, Margaret McConnell and Pia Raffler - May 2014; Note: Updated version dated June 2016 available here.
2014-018: Endogenous Enforcement Institutions; Gani Aldashev and Giorgio Zanarone - May 2014; Note: Updated version dated September 2017 available here.
2014-017: When Warm Glow Burns: Motivational (Mis)allocation in the Non-Profit Sector; Gani Aldashev, Esteban Jaimovich, and Thierry Verdier - April 16, 2014
2014-016: The Rachet Effect Re-Examined: A Learning Perspective; V. Bhaskar - April 2014
2014-015: Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration; Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harold Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman - April 2014
2014-014: Clientilism in Indian Villages; Siwan Anderson, Patrick Francois and Ashok Kotwal - March 27, 2014
2014-013: Rumors and Social Networks; Francis Bloch, Gabrielle Demange and Rachel Kranton - March 26, 2014; Note: Updated version dated November 30, 2016 available here.
2014-012: How is Power Shared in Africa?; Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer and Francesco Trebbi - March 2014
2014-011: Recognition for Sale; S. Nageeb Ali - March 2014
2014-010: Poverty and Self-Control; B. Douglas Berhheim, Debraj Ray, and Sevin Yeltekin - March 2014
2014-009: Evaluating Seasonal Food Security Programs in East Indonesia; Karna Basu and Maisy Wong - February 26, 2014
2014-008: Strategic Mass Killings; Joan Esteban, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner - February 7, 2014
2014-007: Voter turnout and political rents; Gani Aldashev - February 6, 2014
2014-006: The Value of Relationships: Evidence from a Supply Shock to Kenyan Rose Exports; Ameet Morjaria and Rocco Macchiavello - February 2014
2014-005: Trust and Vulnerability; Chris Bidner and Ken Jackson - January 22, 2014
2014-004: On Convergence in the Spatial AK Growth Models; Gani Aldashev, Serik Aldashev, and Timoteo Carletti - January 18, 2014
2014-003: A Theory of Child Marriage; Zaki Wahhaj - January 2014
2014-002: Productivity Response to a Contract Change; Rajshri Jayaraman, Debraj Ray and Francis de Vericourt - January 2014
2014-001: Solving Agency Problems: Intrinsic Motivation, Incentives, and Productivity; Timothy J. Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak - January 2014
2013-045: Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia; Abhijit Banerjee - November 2013
2013-044: Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?; Erlend Berg, Maitreesh Ghatak, R. Manjula, D. Rajasekhar, and Sanchari Roy - December 10, 2013; Note: Updated version dated Jan, 2019 available here.
2013-043: A Theory of Interactions Between MFIs and Informal Lenders; Dilip Mookherjee and Alberto Motta - October 31, 2013
2013-042: The Demographic Transition and the Position of Women: A Marriage Market Perspective; V. Bhaskar - December 2013
2013-041: The Role of Group Size in Group Lending; Christian Ahlin - December 2013
2013-040: Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim violence in India; Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray - December 2013
2013-039: Is the credit worth it? For-profit Lenders in microfinance with rational and behavioral borrowers; Jon de Quidt and Maitreesh Ghatak - November 23, 2013
2013-038: Mediation and Peace; Johannes Hörner, Massimo Morelli and Francesco Squintani - November 2013
2013-037: A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: Theory and Evidence on the (Dis)Advantages of Informal Loans; Alexander Karaivanov and Anke Kessler - November 2013
2013-036: Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance; Jon de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer, and Maitreesh Ghatak - November 2013; Note: Updated version dated May, 2018 available here.
2013-035: Profit with Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise with Experimental Evidence; Timothy J. Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak - November 2013
2013-034: Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization; Adam Meirowitz, Massimo Morelli, Kristopher W. Ramsay and Francesco Squintani - October 27, 2013
2013-033: Awareness and AIDS: A Political Economy Perspective; Jean-Marie Baland and Gani Aldashev - October 2013
2013-032: Assignment procedure biases in randomized policy experiments; Gani Aldashev, Georg Kirchsteiger, and Alexander Sebald - September 2, 2013; Note: Updated version dated June 2017 available here.
2013-031: The Equality Multiplier; Erling Barth and Karl O. Moene - September 2013
2013-030: Corruption, Intimidation and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports; Sylvain Chassang and Gerard Padró i Miquel - August 27, 2013
2013-029: Perspectives, Opinions, and Information Flows; Rajiv Sethi and Muhamet Yildiz - August 26, 2013
2013-028: The Rise of Services: The Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply; Francisco J. Buera, Joseph Kaboski and Min Qiang Zhao - August 21, 2013
2013-027: Property Rights Over Marital Transfers; Siwan Anderson and Chris Bidner - August 13, 2013
2013-026: Aid and Agency in Africa: Explaining Food Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households, 1994-2004; Nzinga H. Broussard, Stefan Dercon and Rohini Somanathan - August 9, 2013
2013-025: Political Reform in China: Elections, Public Goods and Income Distribution; Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao - August 6, 2013
2013-024: The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya; Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Edward Miguel, Ameet Morjaria and Gerard Padró i Miquel - August 2013
2013-023: Tropical Lending: International Prices, Strategic Default and Credit Constraints among Coffee Washing Stations; Arthur Blouin and Rocco Macchiavello - August 2013
2013-022: Surplus Efficiency of Ex Ante Investments in Matching Markets with Nontransferabilities; Thomas Gall - July 2013
2013-021: Local Natural Resource Curse?; Lars-Erik Borge, Pernille Parmer and Ragnar Torvik - June 19, 2013
2013-020: China's Savings Multiplier; Ragnar Torvik and Simone Valente - June 4, 2013
2013-019: Sorting Across Markets; Thomas Gall - June 2013
2013-018: Group Lending Without Joint Liability; Jon de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer, and Maitreesh Ghatak - June 2013
2013-017: Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium; Gani Aldashev, François Libois, Joaquín Morales Belpaire, and Astrid Similon - May 14, 2013
2013-016: Delegation and Nonmonetary Incentives; Attila Ambrus and Georgy Egorov - May 2013
2013-015: Political Foundations of the Resource Curse: A Simplification and a Comment; James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik - April 15, 2013
2013-014: Repayment and Exclusion in a Microfinance Experiment; Jean-Marie Baland, Lata Gangadharan, Pushkar Maitra and Rohini Somanathan - April 6, 2013
2013-013: Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?; Brian Greaney, Joseph Kaboski and Eva Van Leemput - April 5, 2013
2013-012: The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation; Abhijit Banjee, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster and Cynthia Kinnan - April 2013
2013-011: The Value of Entrepreneurial Failures: Experimentation and Career Concerns; Andrea Canidio and Patrick Legros - March 26, 2013
2013-010: Accomplice-Witness and Organized Crime: Theory and Evidence from Italy; Antonio Acconcia, Giovanni Immordino, Salvatore Piccolo and Patrick Rey - March 2013
2013-009: Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration; Kaivan Munshi and Kenneth Chay - March 2013
2013-008: Political Reinforcement: How Rising Inequality Curbs Manifested Welfare Generosity; Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas and Karl O. Moene - March 2013
2013-007: Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics; Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig - February 2013
2013-006: Economics of Crime Networks; Rogayeh Dastranj, Stephen Easton and Alexander Karaivanov - February 2013; Note: Updated version dated November 2015 available here.
2013-005: Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation; Raquel Fernandez and Joyce Chen Wong - February 2013
2013-004: Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies; S. Nageeb Ali and David A. Miller - January 25, 2013
2013-003: Endogenous Presidentialism; James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik - January 18, 2013
2013-002: Correlation Neglect, Voting Behavior and Polarization; Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin - 2013
2013-001: Dynamic Lending under Adverse Selection with Limited Borrower Commitment: Can it Outperform Group Lending?; Christian Ahlin and Brian Waters - January 2013
2012-029: Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh; Zaki Wahhaj - December 2012
2012-028: Fiscal Decentralization, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia; Zaki Wahhaj and Samistha Pal - December 2012
2012-027: Political Clientilism and Capture: Theory and Evidence from West Bengal, India; Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee - August 21, 2012
2012-026: The Need for Enemies; Leopoldo Ferguson, James A. Robinson, Ragnar Torvik and Juan F. Vargas - August 2012
2012-025: The Welfare Costs of Lawlessness: Evidence from Somali Piracy; Timothy J. Besley, Thiemo Fetzer and Hannes Mueller - July 27, 2012
2012-024: Suicide and Property Rights in India; Siwan Anderson and Garance Genicot - July 2012
2012-023: Do Firms Want to Borrow More? Testing Credit Constraints Using a Directed Lending Program; Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo - June 2012
2012-022: Is Aid Volatility Harmful?; Gani Aldashev and Vincenzo Verardi - January 9, 2012
2012-021: Social Norms, Higher-Order Beliefs and the Emporer's New Clothes; Zaki Wahhaj - December 1, 2012
2012-020: A Gender-Based Theory of the Origin of the Caste System of India; Chris Bidner, Mukesh Eswaran - December 11, 2012; Note: Updated version dated May 5, 2014 available here.
2012-019: Loopholes: Social Learning and the Evolution of Contract Form; Philippe Jeheil, Andrew F. Newman - December 2012
2012-018: The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars; Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner - March 30, 2012
2012-017: Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Rules; Francesco Caselli, Tom Cunningham, Massimo Morelli and Ines Moreno de Barreda - January 1, 2012
2012-016: Identity, Group Conflict, and Social Preferences; Rachel Kranton, Matthew Pease, Seth Sanders, and Scott Huettel - April 1, 2012; Note: Updated version dated October 2013 available here.
2012-015: The Emergence of Political Accountability; Chris Bidner, Patrick Francois - February 14, 2012
2012-014: A Foundation for Markov Equilibria with Finite Social Memory; V Bhaskar, George J. Mailath and Stephen Morris - January 31, 2012
2012-013: Dynamic Moral Hazard, Learning and Belief Manipulation; V Bhaskar - April 1, 2012
2012-012: The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa; Timothy Besley, Marta Reynal-Querol - February 8, 2012
2012-011: On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China; Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Nancy Qian - February 1, 2012
2012-010: The Diffusion of Microfinance; Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Matthew O. Jackson - April 1, 2012
2012-009: Group Formation with Fixed Group Size: Complementarity vs. Substitutability; Christian Ahlin - April 1, 2012
2012-008: The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India; Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray - March 1, 2012
2012-007: Smithian Growth through Creative Organization; Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Eugenio Proto - February 1, 2012
2012-006: Mismatch, Rematch and Investment; Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman - February 1, 2012
2012-005: Middlemen Margins and Globalization; Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee, and Masatoshi Tsumagari - February 7, 2012
2012-004: Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance; Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta, Sujata Visaria - March 1, 2012
2012-003: Educational Signaling, Credit Constraints and Income Distribution Dynamics; Marcello D'Amato and Dilip Mookherjee - April 2, 2012
2012-002: Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Potato Farmers in West Bengal; Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Maximo Torero and Sujata Visaria - April 25, 2012; Note: Updated version dated May 3, 2017 available here.
2012-001: Opium for the Masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan; Jo Thori Lind, Karl Ove Moene, Fredrik Willumsen - April 27, 2012
2011-045: Nutrition and Risk Sharing within the Household; Dubois, Pierre; Ligon, Ethan A. - October 24, 2011
2011-044: Elite Capture Through Information Distortion: A Theoretical Essay; Jean-Philippe Platteau, Vincent Somville and Zaki Wahhaj - January 1, 2011
2011-043: Repayment Incentives and the Distribution of Gains from Group Lending; Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan, Zaki Wahhaj - January 1, 2011
2011-042: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?; Daron Acemoglu, Ragnar Torvik, James A. Robinson - August 1, 2011
2011-041: Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China; Monica Martinez-Bravo, Gerard Padro I Miquel, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao - April 12, 2011
2011-040: Workers Without Borders? Culture and the Political Economy of Temporary versus Permanent Immigration; Sanjay Jain, Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand - April 1, 2011
2011-039: Ideology and Information in Policymaking; Massimo Morelli, Richard Van Weelden - December 28, 2011
2011-038: Turnout and Power Sharing; Helios Herrera, Massimo Morelli and Thomas Palfrey - December 9, 2011
2011-037: The Value of Conflict Mediation; Adam Meirowitz, Massimo Morelli, Kristopher W. Ramsay, Francesco Squintani - October 1, 2011
2011-036: Mediation and Peace; Johannes Horner, Massimo Morelli, Francesco Squintani - April 1, 2011
2011-035: The Social Cost of a Credit Monopoly; Andreas Madestam - October 1, 2011
2011-034: Strategic Interaction and Networks; Yann Bramoulle, Rachel Kranton and Martin D'Amours - January 1, 2011; Note: Updated version dated May 2013 available here.
2011-033: Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform; Sanjay Jain, Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand - November 1, 2011
2011-032: Excessive Public Employment and Rent-Seeking Traps; Esteban Jaimovich, Juan Pablo Rud - December 1, 2011
2011-031: Love for Quality, Comparative Advantage, and Trade; Esteban Jaimovich, Vincenzo Merella - October 1, 2011; Note: Updated version dated January 2014 available here.
2011-030: Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty; Greg Fischer - March 1, 2011
2011-029: Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb; Alejandro Drexler, Greg Fischer and Antoinette Schoar - January 1, 2011
2011-028: Women's Rights and Development; Raquel Fernandez - December 1, 2011; Note: Updated version dated June 2012 available here.
2011-027: The Disappearing Gender Gap: The Impact of Divorce, Wages, and Preferences on Education choices and Women's Work; Raquel Fernandez, Joyce Cheng Wong - October 1, 2011
2011-026: Rewarding Idleness; Andrea Canidio and Thomas Gall - December 19, 2011; Note: Updated version dated October 22, 2013 available here.
2011-025: An Economic Theory of the Evolutionary Origin of Property Rights; Mukesh Eswaran and Hugh M. Neary - October 1, 2011
2011-024: Ethnic and Religious Polarization and Social Conflict; Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral - January 13, 2011
2011-023: Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study; Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray - July 1, 2011
2011-022: The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights; Matthias Doepke, Michele Tertilt, Alessandra Voena - December 1, 2011
2011-021: Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?; Matthias Doepke, Michele Tertilt - April 1, 2011; Note: Updated version dated 20 August 2019 available here.
2011-020: Commitment Contracts; Philip Bond, Gustav Sigurdsson - April 14, 2011
2011-019: Government Intervention and Information Aggregation; Philip Bond, Itay Goldstein - June 8, 2011
2011-018: The Real Effects of Financial Markets; Philip Bond, Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein - December 1, 2011
2011-017: Bankers and Regulators; Philip Bond, Vincent Glode - October 18, 2011
2011-016: Wall Street Occupations: An Equilibrium Theory of Overpaid Jobs; Ulf Axelson and Philip Bond - November 15, 2011
2011-015: Marriage as a Rat Race: Noisy Premarital Investments with Assortative Matching; V. Bhaskar, Ed Hopkins - August 4, 2011; Note: Updated version dated November 2013 available here.
2011-014: The Regulation of Land Markets: Evidence from Tenancy Reform in India; Timothy Besley, Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao - November 19, 2011
2011-013: Political Turnover and Institutional Reform: Theory and Evidence; Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson, Marta Reynal-Querol - December 29, 2011
2011-012: One Kind of Democracy; Siwan Anderson, Patrick Francois, and Ashok Kotwal - September 1, 2011
2011-011: Deadly Anchor: Gender Bias Under Russian Colonization of Kazakhstan, 1898-1908; Gani Aldashev, Catherine Guirkinger - July 29, 2011
2011-010: Watchdogs of the Invisible Hand: NGO Monitoring and Industry Equilibrium; Gani Aldashev, Michela Limardi, Thierry Verdier - June 12, 2011; Note: Updated version dated November 18, 2013 available here.
2011-009: Status, Intertemperal Choice and Risk-Taking; Debraj Ray, Arthur Robson - August 11, 2011
2011-008: Political Participation, Clientelism and Targeting of Local Government Programs: Results from a Rural Household Survey in West Bengal, India.; Pranab Bardhan, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Abhirup Sarkar - October 4, 2011
2011-007: Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967--2003: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes; Pranab Bardhan, Micheal Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino - November 20, 2011; Note: Updated version dated December 12, 2013 available here.
2011-006: The Battle of Regimes; Havlor Mehlum and Karl Ove Moene - April 1, 2011
2011-005: Contractual Structure and Endogenous Matching in Partnerships; Maitreesh Ghatak, Alexander Karaivanov - February 1, 2011
2011-004: Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?; Madhav S. Aney, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Massimo Morelli - July 22, 2011
2011-003: Land Acquistion for Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers; Maitreesh Ghatak, Dilip Mookherjee - October 1, 2011
2011-002: Forest Degradation in the Himalayas: Determinants and Policy Options; Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, and Dilip Mookherjee - November 30, 2011
2011-001: Socially Disadvantaged groups and Microfinance in India; Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan and Lore Vandewalle - December 1, 2011
2010-017: Regional Integration, Fragility, and Institution Building: An Analytical Framework Applied to the African Context; Thierry Verdier - June 1, 2010
2010-016: Using the Law to Change the Custom; Gani Aldashev, Imane Chaara, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Zaki Wahhaj - January 20, 2010
2010-015: Political Instrumentalisation of Islam, Persistent Autocracies, and Obscurantist Deadlock; Jean-Philippe Platteau - April 22, 2010
2010-014: Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War; Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner - August 9, 2010
2010-013: Measuring Risk by Looking at Changes in Inequality: Vulnerability in Ecuador; Ligon, Ethan A. - January 25, 2010
2010-012: Cultivating Trust: Norms, Institutions and the Implications of Scale; Chris Bidner, Patrick Francois - May 13, 2010
2010-011: Competition Builds Trust; Patrick Francois, Thomas Fujiwara, Tanguy van Ypersele - June 1, 2010
2010-010: Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice; Greg Fischer - February 1, 2010
2010-009: Aspirations and Inequality; Garance Genicot, Debraj Ray - December 1, 2010; Note: Updated version dated March 2014 available here.
2010-008: Government Information Transpareny; Facundo Albornoz, Joan Esteban, Paolo Vanin - February 10, 2010
2010-007: The Simple Analytics of Elite Behavious Under Limited State Capacity; Francois Bourguignon and Thierry Verdier - September 1, 2010
2010-006: Giving Credit Where it is Due; Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo - March 12, 2010
2010-005: The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor; Abhijit V. Banerjee, Sendhil Mullainathan - April 1, 2010
2010-004: A Theory of Occupational Choice with Endogenous Fertility; Dilip Mookherjee, Silvia Prina and Debraj Ray - November 2, 2010
2010-003: Repayment Frequency and Lending Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers; Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak - July 1, 2010
2010-002: Marry for What? Partner Selection in Modern India; Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune - November 1, 2010
2010-001: Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections; Roberto Bonfatti, Maitreesh Ghatak - November 10, 2010