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Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution
(2013-01)Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as ... -
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
(2012-12)This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ... -
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
(2012-12)Using panel data spanning 15 years, this paper investigates the persistence and correlates of subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been ... -
Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and determinants
(2012-12)Most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. In this paper, we use three rounds of panel data and ... -
Households' income-generating activities and marginal returns to labor in rural Tanzania
(2012-11)This study uses detailed household-level data to investigate income and activity diversification among households in rural Tanzania. Unlike previous research on diversification, I explicitly evalutate marginal returns ... -
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: A Tale of Confused Objectives, Mulitple Market Failures and Policy Challenges
(2012-10)Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend ... -
A Markov Copula Model of Portfolio Credit Risk with Stochastic Intensities and Random Recoveries
(2012-10)In [4], the authors introduced a Markov copula model of portfolio credit risk. This model solves the top-down versus bottom-up puzzle in achieving efficient joint calibration to single-name CDS and to multi-name CDO ... -
Successful inflation targeting in Mozambique despite vulnerability to internal and external shocks
(2012-09)Inflation has proven to be an important obstacle to successful economic adjustment in many countries. Despite both internal and external shocks to the economy, Mozambique has succeeded in controlling the inflation to gain ... -
From Boom to Bust and Back Again: A dynamic analysis of IT services
(2012-09)Aggregate shocks in demand such as the burst of the 2001 dot-com bubble affect firms’ behavior and, therefore, the market structure. This paper proposes a fully dynamic oligopoly model to evaluate the impact of aggregate ... -
Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving
(2012-09)We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for ... -
Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries
(2012-09)Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we ... -
Do Option-like Incentives Induce Overvaluation? Evidence from Experimental Asset Markets
(2012-11 (r)One potential reason for bubbles evolving prior to the financial crisis was excessive risk taking stemming from option-like incentive schemes in financial institutions. By running laboratory asset markets, we investigate ... -
Why Unions Reduce Wage Inequality, I: A Theory of Domino Effects
Numerous empirical studies show that unions reduce wage differences. But surprisingly few attempts have been made to understand why. Swedish unions reveal that the reason is both ideological and strategic. Relying on ... -
When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
(2012-09)This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. ... -
Intra-household decisions making on intertemporal choices: An experimental study in rural China
(2012-09)In this paper, we conduct a high stake experiment in rural China to investigate the determinants of individual and joint decisions regarding intertemporal choices, and estimate the relative influence of spouses on the joint ... -
Costs of misspecification in break-model unit-root tests
(2012-08)This paper examines power issues for the ADF and four break models (Perron 1989, Zivot and Andrews 1992) when the DGP corresponds to one of the break models. Choosing to test an incorrect break model can but need not ... -
The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam
(2012-06)This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the education sector. ... -
Trade and Resources: Welfare effects of the Lake Victoria fisheries boom
(2012-05)In this paper we examine the welfare implications of the Tanzanian fisheries boom following from the increase in quantities and prices of the Lake Victoria Nile perch export during 1993-2008. We use the theoretical model ... -
Social Globalization and Child Labor
(2012-05)In recent years, a growing number of authors have turned their focus to the question of why children work. While much of the research focuses on household level factors, macroeconomic factors have gained increasing attention. ... -
Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons
(2012-05)Since its first appearance in the late 1800s, the origins of the Sicilian mafia have remained a largely unresolved mystery. Both institutional and historical explanations have been proposed in the literature through the ...