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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
2018-021
Stay, Split or Strike: Theory and Evidence on Secessionist vs Centrist Conflict
Joan Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner - May 2022
2018-009
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.
2018-005
Adverse Selection in Distributive Politics
S. Nageeb Ali, Maximilian Mihm and Lucas Siga - March 2018
2018-007
The Strategy and Technology of Conflict
Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjostrom - March 2018
Note: Updated version dated December 9, 2019 available here.
2018-011
Competing Teams
Hector Chade and Jan Eeckhout - March 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
2018-006
Investments in Social Ties, Risk Sharing and Inequality
Attila Ambrus, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Matt Elliott, Erica Field and Rohini Pande - October 2017
2018-010
The Global Diffusion of Ideas
Francisco J. Buera and Ezra Oberfield - July 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
2017-010
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.
2017-011
Clientelistic Politics and Economic Development: An Overview
Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee - May 2017
Note: Updated version dated August 2018 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
2017-005
The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy
Sharun W. Mukand and Dani Rodrik - March 2017
2017-006
Bypassing Intermediaries via Vertical Integration: A Transaction-Cost-Based Theory
Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Masatoshi Tsumagari - March 1, 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
2016-065
Repayment Frequency in Lending Contracts
Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak - 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
2016-067
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
2016-063
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
2016-064
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.
2016-062
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
2016-026
Network Centrality and Informal Institutions: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
Emily Breza, Arun G. Chandrasekhar and Horacio Larreguy - May 2016
2016-032
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
2016-058
A Model of Protests, Revolution, and Information
Salvador Barbera and Matthew O. Jackson - May 2016
2016-059
Sale of visas: a smuggler's final song?
Emmanuelle Auriol and Alice Mesnard - 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
2016-015
Bogus Joint Liability Groups in Microfinance - Theory and Evidence from China
Alexander Karaivanov, Xiaochuan Xing and Yi Xue - March 2016
2016-016
Non-grant Microfinance, Incentives, and Efficiency
Alexander Karaivanov - March 2016
Note: Updated version dated February 2017 available here.
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.
2016-048
Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Appreticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
David de la Croix, Matthias Doepke and Joel Mokyr - March 2016
2016-056
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
2016-038
Personal Liberties, Religiosity, and Effort
Joan Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral - January 15, 2016
2016-029
Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws
Daron Acemoglu and Matthew O. Jackson - January 2016
2016-050
The Echo Chamber Effect: Segregation, Polarisation, and Discrimination
Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin - 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.
2016-025
The Dynamics of Inequality
Xavier Gabaix, Jean-Michel Lasry, Pierre-Louis Lions and Benjamin Moll - December 24, 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.
2016-018
Local Agency Costs of Political Centralization
Roger Myerson - December 2015
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
2016-046
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.
2016-049
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.
2016-045
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
2016-036
The Political Economy of Liberal Democracy
Sharun Mukand and Dani Rodrik - September 2015
2016-037
The Long and the Short of It: Sovereign Debt Crises and Debt Maturity
Raquel Fernández and Alberto Martin - September 2015
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
2016-031
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
2016-027
Social Networks. Reputation and Commitment: Evidence from a Savings Monitors Experiment
Emily Breza and Arun G. Chandrasekhar - July 2015
2016-023
Moral Hazard in High Office and the Dynamics of Aristocracy
Roger B. Myerson - June 2015
2016-024
Two-sided Altruism and Signaling
Garance Genicot - June 2015
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
2016-017
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
Roland Bénabou, Davide Ticchi and Andrea Vindigni - March 2015
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
2016-051
A Delegation-Based Theory of Expertise
Attila Ambrus, Volodymyr Baranovskyi and Aaron Kolb - 2015
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
2016-007
Identity and Terrorism
Mukesh Eswaran and Hugh Neary - August 2014
2016-008
Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
Joachim De Weerdt, Garance Genicot and Alice Mesnard - August 2014
2016-009
Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
Abhijit Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Esther Duflo and Matthew O. Jackson - August 2014
2016-006
Networks and Missallocation: Insurance, Migration, and the Rural-Urban Wage Gap
Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig - July 2014
2014-029
Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control
Karna Basu, Kaushik Basu and Tito Cordella - June 23, 2014
2016-005
Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: A Theory of Inference from Unveriable Reports
Sylvain Chassang and Gerard PadróI Miquel - June 15, 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
2014-026
Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti - June 2014
2014-027
The Dictator's Inner Circle
Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer and Francesco Trebbi - June 2014
2016-022
Making Collusion Hard: Asymmetric Information as a Counter-Corruption Measure
Juan Ortner and Sylvain Chassang - May 31, 2014
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.
2014-024
Nit-Piketty
Debraj Ray - May 23, 2014
2014-025
Social Learning with Endogenous Information
S. Nageeb Ali - 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
2014-018
Endogenous Enforcement Institutions
Gani Aldashev and Giorgio Zanarone - May 2014
Note: Updated version dated September 2017 available here.
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.
2014-020
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
2014-021
Economic Distress and Farmer Suicides in India: An Econometric Investigation
Stefan Klonner and Sarah Hebous - May 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.
2014-017
When Warm Glow Burns: Motivational (Mis)allocation in the Non-Profit Sector
Gani Aldashev, Esteban Jaimovich, and Thierry Verdier - April 16, 2014
2014-015
Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration
Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harold Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman - April 2014
2014-016
The Rachet Effect Re-Examined: A Learning Perspective
V. Bhaskar - 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.
2014-035
A Pareto Efficiency Rationale for the Welfare State
Dilip Mookherjee and Stefan Napel - March 3, 2014
2014-010
Poverty and Self-Control
B. Douglas Berhheim, Debraj Ray, and Sevin Yeltekin - March 2014
2014-011
Recognition for Sale
S. Nageeb Ali - March 2014
2014-012
How is Power Shared in Africa?
Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer and Francesco Trebbi - March 2014
2014-032
Group Formation with Fixed Group Size: Complementarity vs Substitutability
Christian Ahlin - March 2014
Note: Updated version dated March 2014 available here.
2016-004
Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation
Pierre Dubois, Olivier de Mouzon, Fiona Scott-Morton and Paul Seabright - 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
2016-003
Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Raquel Fernández and Joyce Cheng Wong - 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
2014-030
Predictability and Power in Legislative Bargaining
S. Nageeb Ali, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Xiaoxhen Fan - January 18, 2014
2014-001
Solving Agency Problems: Intrinsic Motivation, Incentives, and Productivity
Timothy J. Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak - January 2014
2014-002
Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Rajshri Jayaraman, Debraj Ray and Francis de Vericourt - January 2014
2014-003
A Theory of Child Marriage
Zaki Wahhaj - January 2014
2016-002
Smoking within the Household: Spousal Peer Effects and Children's Health Implications
Chiara Canta and Pierre Dubois - 2014
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.
2013-040
Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim violence in India
Anirban Mitra and Debraj Ray - December 2013
2013-041
The Role of Group Size in Group Lending
Christian Ahlin - December 2013
2013-042
The Demographic Transition and the Position of Women: A Marriage Market Perspective
V. Bhaskar - 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
2013-035
Profit with Purpose? A Theory of Social Enterprise with Experimental Evidence
Timothy J. Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak - 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.
2013-037
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
2013-038
Mediation and Peace
Johannes Hörner, Massimo Morelli and Francesco Squintani - November 2013
2013-045
Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Abhijit Banerjee - November 2013
2013-043
A Theory of Interactions Between MFIs and Informal Lenders
Dilip Mookherjee and Alberto Motta - October 31, 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
2013-023
Tropical Lending: International Prices, Strategic Default and Credit Constraints among Coffee Washing Stations
Arthur Blouin and Rocco Macchiavello - August 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
2013-022
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
2013-018
Group Lending Without Joint Liability
Jon de Quidt, Thiemo Fetzer, and Maitreesh Ghatak - June 2013
2013-019
Sorting Across Markets
Thomas Gall - 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 Microfi…nance? 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
2013-008
Political Reinforcement: How Rising Inequality Curbs Manifested Welfare Generosity
Erling Barth, Henning Finseraas and Karl O. Moene - March 2013
2013-009
Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration
Kaivan Munshi and Kenneth Chay - March 2013
2013-010
Accomplice-Witness and Organized Crime: Theory and Evidence from Italy
Antonio Acconcia, Giovanni Immordino, Salvatore Piccolo and Patrick Rey - March 2013
2013-005
Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Raquel Fernandez and Joyce Chen Wong - February 2013
2013-006
Economics of Crime Networks
Rogayeh Dastranj, Stephen Easton and Alexander Karaivanov - February 2013
Note: Updated version dated November 2015 available here.
2013-007
Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics
Kaivan Munshi and Mark Rosenzweig - 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
2013-001
Dynamic Lending under Adverse Selection with Limited Borrower Commitment: Can it Outperform Group Lending?
Christian Ahlin and Brian Waters - January 2013
2013-002
Correlation Neglect, Voting Behavior and Polarization
Gilat Levy and Ronny Razin - 2013
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
2012-021
Social Norms, Higher-Order Beliefs and the Emporer's New Clothes
Zaki Wahhaj - December 1, 2012
2012-028
Fiscal Decentralization, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Zaki Wahhaj and Samistha Pal - December 2012
2012-029
Going to School in Purdah: Female Schooling, Mobility Norms and Madrasas in Bangladesh
Zaki Wahhaj - 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
2012-001
Opium for the Masses? Conflict-induced narcotics production in Afghanistan
Jo Thori Lind, Karl Ove Moene, Fredrik Willumsen - April 27, 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.
2012-003
Educational Signaling, Credit Constraints and Income Distribution Dynamics
Marcello D'Amato and Dilip Mookherjee - April 2, 2012
2012-009
Group Formation with Fixed Group Size: Complementarity vs. Substitutability
Christian Ahlin - April 1, 2012
2012-010
The Diffusion of Microfinance
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Matthew O. Jackson - April 1, 2012
2012-013
Dynamic Moral Hazard, Learning and Belief Manipulation
V Bhaskar - April 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.
2012-018
The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Francesco Caselli, Massimo Morelli, and Dominic Rohner - March 30, 2012
2012-004
Intermediated Loans: A New Approach to Microfinance
Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta, Sujata Visaria - March 1, 2012
2012-008
The Age Distribution of Missing Women in India
Siwan Anderson and Debraj Ray - March 1, 2012
2012-015
The Emergence of Political Accountability
Chris Bidner, Patrick Francois - February 14, 2012
2012-012
The Legacy of Historical Conflict Evidence from Africa
Timothy Besley, Marta Reynal-Querol - February 8, 2012
2012-005
Middlemen Margins and Globalization
Pranab Bardhan, Dilip Mookherjee, and Masatoshi Tsumagari - February 7, 2012
2012-006
Mismatch, Rematch and Investment
Thomas Gall, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman - February 1, 2012
2012-007
Smithian Growth through Creative Organization
Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Eugenio Proto - February 1, 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
2012-014
A Foundation for Markov Equilibria with Finite Social Memory
V Bhaskar, George J. Mailath and Stephen Morris - January 31, 2012
2012-022
Is Aid Volatility Harmful?
Gani Aldashev and Vincenzo Verardi - January 9, 2012
2012-017
Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Rules
Francesco Caselli, Tom Cunningham, Massimo Morelli and Ines Moreno de Barreda - January 1, 2012
2011-013
Political Turnover and Institutional Reform: Theory and Evidence
Timothy Besley, Torsten Persson, Marta Reynal-Querol - December 29, 2011
2011-039
Ideology and Information in Policymaking
Massimo Morelli, Richard Van Weelden - December 28, 2011
2011-026
Rewarding Idleness
Andrea Canidio and Thomas Gall - December 19, 2011
Note: Updated version dated October 22, 2013 available here.
2011-038
Turnout and Power Sharing
Helios Herrera, Massimo Morelli and Thomas Palfrey - December 9, 2011
2011-001
Socially Disadvantaged groups and Microfinance in India
Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan and Lore Vandewalle - December 1, 2011
2011-018
The Real Effects of Financial Markets
Philip Bond, Alex Edmans, Itay Goldstein - December 1, 2011
2011-022
The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Matthias Doepke, Michele Tertilt, Alessandra Voena - December 1, 2011
2011-028
Women's Rights and Development
Raquel Fernandez - December 1, 2011
Note: Updated version dated June 2012 available here.
2011-032
Excessive Public Employment and Rent-Seeking Traps
Esteban Jaimovich, Juan Pablo Rud - December 1, 2011
2011-002
Forest Degradation in the Himalayas: Determinants and Policy Options
Jean-Marie Baland, Sanghamitra Das, and Dilip Mookherjee - November 30, 2011
2011-007
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.
2011-014
The Regulation of Land Markets: Evidence from Tenancy Reform in India
Timothy Besley, Jessica Leight, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao - November 19, 2011
2011-016
Wall Street Occupations: An Equilibrium Theory of Overpaid Jobs
Ulf Axelson and Philip Bond - November 15, 2011
2011-033
Walk the Line: Conflict, State Capacity and the Political Dynamics of Reform
Sanjay Jain, Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand - November 1, 2011
2016-001
Laws and Norms
Roland Benabou and Jean Tirole - November 2011
2011-045
Nutrition and Risk Sharing within the Household
Dubois, Pierre; Ligon, Ethan A. - October 24, 2011
2011-017
Bankers and Regulators
Philip Bond, Vincent Glode - October 18, 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
2011-003
Land Acquistion for Industrialization and Compensation for Displaced Farmers
Maitreesh Ghatak, Dilip Mookherjee - October 1, 2011
2011-025
An Economic Theory of the Evolutionary Origin of Property Rights
Mukesh Eswaran and Hugh M. Neary - October 1, 2011
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
2011-031
Love for Quality, Comparative Advantage, and Trade
Esteban Jaimovich, Vincenzo Merella - October 1, 2011
Note: Updated version dated January 2014 available here.
2011-035
The Social Cost of a Credit Monopoly
Andreas Madestam - October 1, 2011
2011-037
The Value of Conflict Mediation
Adam Meirowitz, Massimo Morelli, Kristopher W. Ramsay, Francesco Squintani - October 1, 2011
2011-012
One Kind of Democracy
Siwan Anderson, Patrick Francois, and Ashok Kotwal - September 1, 2011
2011-009
Status, Intertemperal Choice and Risk-Taking
Debraj Ray, Arthur Robson - August 11, 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.
2011-042
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
Daron Acemoglu, Ragnar Torvik, James A. Robinson - August 1, 2011
2011-011
Deadly Anchor: Gender Bias Under Russian Colonization of Kazakhstan, 1898-1908
Gani Aldashev, Catherine Guirkinger - July 29, 2011
2011-004
Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?
Madhav S. Aney, Maitreesh Ghatak, and Massimo Morelli - July 22, 2011
2011-023
Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study
Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray - July 1, 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.
2011-019
Government Intervention and Information Aggregation
Philip Bond, Itay Goldstein - June 8, 2011
2011-020
Commitment Contracts
Philip Bond, Gustav Sigurdsson - April 14, 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
2011-006
The Battle of Regimes
Havlor Mehlum and Karl Ove Moene - April 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.
2011-036
Mediation and Peace
Johannes Horner, Massimo Morelli, Francesco Squintani - April 1, 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
2011-030
Investment Choice and Inflation Uncertainty
Greg Fischer - March 1, 2011
2011-005
Contractual Structure and Endogenous Matching in Partnerships
Maitreesh Ghatak, Alexander Karaivanov - February 1, 2011
2011-024
Ethnic and Religious Polarization and Social Conflict
Joan Esteban, Laura Mayoral - January 13, 2011
2011-029
Keeping it Simple: Financial Literacy and Rules of Thumb
Alejandro Drexler, Greg Fischer and Antoinette Schoar - January 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.
2011-043
Repayment Incentives and the Distribution of Gains from Group Lending
Jean-Marie Baland, Rohini Somanathan, Zaki Wahhaj - January 1, 2011
2011-044
Elite Capture Through Information Distortion: A Theoretical Essay
Jean-Philippe Platteau, Vincent Somville and Zaki Wahhaj - January 1, 2011
2010-009
Aspirations and Inequality
Garance Genicot, Debraj Ray - December 1, 2010
Note: Updated version dated March 2014 available here.
2010-001
Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections
Roberto Bonfatti, Maitreesh Ghatak - November 10, 2010
2010-004
A Theory of Occupational Choice with Endogenous Fertility
Dilip Mookherjee, Silvia Prina and Debraj Ray - November 2, 2010
2010-002
Marry for What? Partner Selection in Modern India
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Maitreesh Ghatak and Jeanne Lafortune - November 1, 2010
2010-007
The Simple Analytics of Elite Behavious Under Limited State Capacity
Francois Bourguignon and Thierry Verdier - September 1, 2010
2010-014
Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
Massimo Morelli and Dominic Rohner - August 9, 2010
2010-003
Repayment Frequency and Lending Contracts with Present-Biased Borrowers
Greg Fischer and Maitreesh Ghatak - July 1, 2010
2010-011
Competition Builds Trust
Patrick Francois, Thomas Fujiwara, Tanguy van Ypersele - June 1, 2010
2010-017
Regional Integration, Fragility, and Institution Building: An Analytical Framework Applied to the African Context
Thierry Verdier - June 1, 2010
2010-012
Cultivating Trust: Norms, Institutions and the Implications of Scale
Chris Bidner, Patrick Francois - May 13, 2010
2010-015
Political Instrumentalisation of Islam, Persistent Autocracies, and Obscurantist Deadlock
Jean-Philippe Platteau - April 22, 2010
2010-005
The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
Abhijit V. Banerjee, Sendhil Mullainathan - April 1, 2010
2010-006
Giving Credit Where it is Due
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo - March 12, 2010
2010-008
Government Information Transpareny
Facundo Albornoz, Joan Esteban, Paolo Vanin - February 10, 2010
2010-010
Contract Structure, Risk Sharing, and Investment Choice
Greg Fischer - February 1, 2010
2010-013
Measuring Risk by Looking at Changes in Inequality: Vulnerability in Ecuador
Ligon, Ethan A. - January 25, 2010
2010-016
Using the Law to Change the Custom
Gani Aldashev, Imane Chaara, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Zaki Wahhaj - January 20, 2010
2016-035
Career Women and the Durability of Marriage
Andrew F. Newman and Claudia Olivetti - December 20, 1205
2014-031
The Leader as Catalyst: On Mass Movements and the Mechanics of Institutional Change
Sumon Majumdar and Sharon Mukand
2017-004
The Impact of Migration on Child Labor: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
Garance Genicot, Anna Maria Mayda, and Mariapia Mendola - March 2017
2018-001
Intra-household bargaining in poor countries
Jean-Marie Baland and Roberta Ziparo - April 2017
2018-002
Capital and Inequality in the Long Run: Automation without technical progress
Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray - December 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
2018-004
Samaritan Bundles: Inefficient Clusterings in NGO Projects
Gani Aldashev, Marco Marini and Thierry Verdier - March 2017
2018-012
Decentralized Terrorism and Social Identity
Mukesh Eswaran and Hugh M. Neary - February 2018
2018-013
Behavioral Communities and the Atomic Structure of Networks
Matthew O. Jackson and Evan C. Storms - April 2018
2018-014
A Typology of Social Capital and Associated Network Measures
Matthew O. Jackson - March 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
2018-016
Roadways, Input Sourcing and Patterns of Specialisation
Esteban Jaimovich - February 2018
2018-017
Social Diversity and Bridging Identity
Marìa D.C. Garcìa-Alonso and Zaki Wahhaj - February 2018
2018-022
Vertical Integration and Inter-Firm Relationships in the Costa Rica Coffee Chain
Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa - July 2018
2018-023
Should a Poverty-Averse Donor Always Increase the Share of Governance-Improving Countries
François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau - September 2018
2019-001
Allocating essential inputs
Patrick Rey and David Salant - June 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
2019-003
Buyer-Driven Upgrading in GVCs: The Sustainable Quality Program in Colombia
Rocco Macchiavello, Josepa Miquel-Florensa - August 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
2019-005
Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
Abhijit Banerjee, Emily Breza, Esther Duflo, Cynthia Kinnan - October 2019
2019-006
Marriage Timing and Forward Contracts in Marriage Markets
Gani Aldashev, Zaki Wahhajy - October 2019
2019-007
Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning
Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Golub & He Yang - October 2019
2020-001
Optimal Pricing of a New Utility Service: The Case of Piped Water in Vietnam
Quy-Toan Do, Hanan Jacoby - April 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
2020-003
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
2020-004
The Stable Transformation Path
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph Kaboski, Mart ́ı Mestieri, Daniel G. O’Connor - August 2020
2020-005
Group Lending in Theory and Practice
Christian Ahlin, Godwin Debrah - September 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
2020-007
Informal Risk Sharing with Local Information
Attila Ambrus, Wayne Y. Gao, Pau Milán - December 2020
2021-001
Big Push in Distorted Economies
Francisco J. Buera, Hugo Hopenhayn, Yongseok Shin & Nicholas Trachter - March 2021
2021-002
Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski, Bruno Martins, Cezar Santos - March 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
2021-004
Could Gentrification Stop the Poor from Benefiting from Urban Improvements
Clare Balboni, Gharad Bryan, Melanie Morten and Bilal Siddiqi - May 2021
2021-005
A Theory of Non-Democratic Redistribution and Public Good Provision
Nicola Persico - September 2023
2021-006
Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy
David Laibson, Peter Maxted, Benjamin Moll - June 2021
2021-007
Can For-Profit Business Alleviate Extreme Poverty in Developing Countries?
Mukesh Eswaran - July 2021
2021-008
The Economics of Corporate Liability and Enforcement
Emmanuelle Auriol, Erling Hjelmeng, Tina Søreide - July 2021
2021-009
Governance in the Wild: A Theory of State vs. Private Firms under Weak Institutions
Gani Aldashev and Giorgio Zanarone - August 2021
2021-010
Threats to Commitment: Contracting with Present-Biased Consumers under Renegotiation Concerns
Karna Basu, Jonathan Conning - August 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
2021-012
The Stable Transformation Path
Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski, Martí Mestieri & Daniel G. O'Connor - December 2021
2022-001
Consensus and Disagreement: Information Aggregation under (not so) Naive Learning
Abhijit Banerjee and Olivier Compte - January 2022
2022-002
Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
Daniel J. Agness, Travis Baseler, Sylvain Chassang, Pascaline Dupas & Erik Snowberg - January 2022
2022-003
Multidimensional Pre-Marital Investments with Imperfect Commitment
V. Bhaskar, Wenchao Li, Junjian Yi - January 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
2022-005
Wealth Dynamics in Communities
Daniel Barron, Yingni Guo, and Bryony Reich - March 2022
2022-006
Market Size, Markups, and International Price Dispersion in the Cement Industry
Fabrizio Leone, Rocco Macchiavello, and Tristan Reed - May 2022
2022-007
Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers
Louise Guillouët, Amit K. Khandelwal, Rocco Macchiavello, and Matthieu Teachout - May 2022
2022-008
A Commitment Theory of Populism
Massimo Morelli, Antonio Nicol`o, Paolo Roberti - May 2022
2022-009
Political Quotas and Governance
Siwan Anderson and Patrick Francois - 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
2022-011
Uneven Growth: Automation’s Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality
Benjamin Moll, Lukasz Rachel, Pascual Restrepo - June 2022
2022-012
A Simple Mapping from MPCs to MPXs
David Laibson, Peter Maxted, and Benjamin Moll - June 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
2022-014
The Dark Side of Transparency: Mission Variety and Industry Equilibrium in Decentralized Public Good Provision
Gani Aldashev, Esteban Jaimovichy, Thierry Verdierz - August 2022
2022-015
Stay, Split or Strike: Theory and Evidence on Secessionist vs Centrist Conflict
Joan Esteban, Sabine Flamand, Massimo Morelli, Dominic Rohner - August 2022
2022-016
Buyers’ Sourcing Strategies and Suppliers’ Markups in Bangladeshi Garments
Julia Cajal-Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello, Guillermo Noguera - August 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
2022-018
Corruption and Extremism
Attila Gaspar, Tommaso Giommoni, Massimo Morelli, Antonio Nicolò - September 2022
2022-019
Trucks
Treb Allen, David Atkin - October 2022
2022-020
Interactions across Multiple Games: Cooperation, Corruption, and Organizational Design
Jonathan Bendor, Lukas Bolte, Nicole Immorlica, Matthew O. Jackson - October 2022
2023-001
The Wrongs of Property Rights: The Erosion of Indigenous Communal Land Rights and its Welfare Consequences
Mukesh Eswaran - February 2023
2024-001
Misallocation Implications of Security and Collateral Value of Land
Maitreesh Ghatak, Dilip Mookherjee - April 2024
2024-002
Social Structure, State, and Economic Activity
Yann Bramoulle, Sanjeev Goyal, Massimo Morelli - April 2024
2024-003
Decentralization in Autocraties
Emmanuelle Auriol, Anais Dahmani-Scuitti - December 2022
2024-004
Fighting competition from Mobile Network Operators in the banking sector: The case of Kenya
Emmanuelle Auriol, Alexia Gonzalez Fanfalone - September 2024
2024-005
Populism and War
Andrea Mattozzi, Massimo Morelli, Marcos Y. Nakaguma - October 2024
2024-006
Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Stephen Ayerst, Loren Brandt,Diego Restuccia - May 2024
2024-007
The Micro and Macro Productivity of Nations
Stephen Ayerst, Duc Nguyen, Diego Restuccia - July 2024
2024-008
Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
Natalie Bau, Martin Rotemberg, Manisha Shah, Bryce Millett Steinberg - May 2024
2024-009
Marital Matching and the Distribution of Innate Ability
Chris Bidner, John Knowles - June 2022
2024-010
Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms
Siwan Anderson, Chris Bidner, Clementine Sadania - September 2021
2024-011
A Theory of Elite-Initiated Democratization, Illustrated With the Case of Myanmar
James D. Fearon, Patrick Francois - May 2022
2024-012
A Theory of Minimalist Democracy
Chris Bidner, Patrick Francois, Francesco Trebbi - August 2024
2024-013
Pack-Crack-Pack: Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout
Laurent Bouton, Garance Genicot, Micael Castanheira, Allison Stashko - October 2024
2024-014
Empowerment or Financialization? The Gains from Financial Inclusion
Timothy Besley, Konrad Burchardi, Maitreesh Ghatak, Linchuan Xu - July 2024
2024-015
Public Service Delivery, Exclusion and Externalities: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India
Alex Armand, Britta Augsburg, Antonella Bancalari, Maitreesh Ghatak - November 2023
2024-016
Altruism Networks and Economic Relations
Yann Bramoulle, Rachel E. Kranton - July 2022
2024-017
Comparison of Screening Devices
Frank Yang, Piotr Dworczak, Mohammad Akbarpour - December 2023
2024-018
The Topography of Nations
Treb Allen - October 2023
2024-019
Border Walls
Treb Allen, Cauê Dobbin, Melanie Morten - April 2024
2024-020
Long Wars
Sandeep Baliga, Tomas Sjostrom - October 2023
2024-021
Strategic Parental Investments in a Competitive Marriage Market
V. Bhaskar, Wenchao Li, Junjian Yi - April 2023
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
2024-023
Income and inequality under asymptotically full automation
Philip Bond, Lukas Kremens - September 2024
2024-024
Sectoral Development Multipliers
Francisco Buera, Nicholas Trachter - February 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
2024-026
Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change
James Albrecht, Jiwon Lee, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Thoursie, Raquel Fernandez, Susan Vroman - August 2024
2024-027
State Repression, Exit, and Voice: Living in the Shadow of Cambodia’s Killing Fields
Mathias Bühler, Andreas Madestam - May 2023
2024-028
Social Status, Economic Development and Female Labor Force (Non) Participation
Kaivan Munshi, Swapnil Singh - September 2024
2024-029
Exporting Ideology: The Right and Left of Foreign Influence
Paul Antras, Gerard Padró i Miquel - August 2023
2024-030
Competitive Capture of Public Opinion
Ricardo Alonso, Gerard Padró i Miquel - June 2023
2024-031
‘Made in Dignity’: the Tedistributive Impact of Fair Trade
Jean-Marie Baland, Francois Woitrin, Cedric Duprez, Wouter Gelade - October 2024
2024-032
Integrating Mortality into Poverty Measurement through the Poverty Adjusted Life Expectancy Index
Benoit Decerf, Guilhem Cassan, Jean-Marie Baland - October 2024
2024-033
Stopping Rule as Sex-Selective Abortions and Instrumental Births. A Unified Framework and World Evidence
Jean-Marie Baland, Guilhem Cassan, Francois Woitrin - July 2024