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Working Papers

2013

1. Persistence of fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There was no Post-Columbian Reversal
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics

2012

2. An Uninterpreted Spatial Version of the Trust Game: Evidence of Reciprocity without Suggestive Words, Evidence of Iterated Dominance Self-Taught
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
3. Determinants and Economic Consequences of Colonization: A Global Analysis
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
4. In Broad Daylight: Full Information and Higher-order Punishment Opportunities Promote Cooperation
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
5. Security of Property as a Public Good: Institutions, Socio-Political Environment and Experimental Behavior in Five Countries
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2012)
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2012)
   Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck (2012)
   Working Papers, Banco de México (2012)

2011

6. Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Formal, Informal, and No Sanction Regimes
   Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in Vienna Economics Papers, University of Vienna, Department of Economics (2011)
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2011) View citations (4)
7. State or Nature? Formal vs. Informal Sanctioning in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
   Also in Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics (2011)
   Vienna Economics Papers, University of Vienna, Department of Economics (2011) View citations (2)

2010

8. Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
   Also in Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. (2010)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (2010)
   Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck (2010)
9. Public Goods and Voting on Formal Sanction Schemes: An Experiment
   Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (5)
   Also in NRN working papers, The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (2010) View citations (1)
   Discussion Papers, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics (2010) View citations (4)
10. Trust among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, with and without Textual and Visual Cues
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics

2009

11. Not just babble: Opening the black box of communication in a voluntary contribution experiment
    Open Access publications from Maastricht University, Maastricht University View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in European Economic Review (2009)

2008

12. Getting Punnishment Right: Do Costly Monitoring or Redustributive Punishment Help?
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
13. Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2007) View citations (14)
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (2010)
14. Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2008)
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2010)

2007

15. Lavish Returns on Cheap Talk: Non-binding Communication in a Trust Experiment
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (7)
16. Monitoring In Teams: A Model and Experiment on the Central Monitor Hypothesis
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
17. Preferences For Redistribution and Perception of Fairness: An Experimental Study
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (30)

2006

18. Agriculture, Diffusion,and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolutions
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Economica (2008)
19. Labor-Managed Firms
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
20. Sub-Saharan Growth Surprises: Geography, Institutions And History in an all African Data Panel
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
21. Trust, Communication and Contracts: Experimental Evidence
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics

2005

22. Can Endogenously Chosen Institutions Mitigate the Free-Rider Problem and Reduce Perverse Punishment?
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (11)
23. Communication and Punishment in Voluntary Contribution Experiments
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (33)
    Also in Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2002) View citations (10)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2006)

2004

24. Cooperation Under the Threat of Expulsion in a Public Goods Experiment
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (2005)
25. Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
    Development and Comp Systems, EconWPA
    Also in Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics (2004) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2007)
26. Enterprise Restructuring and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in Jiangsu Province
    William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan View citations (4)
27. On Perverse and Second-Order Punishment in Public Goods Experiments with Decentralized Sanctioning
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (14)
28. The Ecology of Collective Action: A Public Goods and Sanctions Experiment with Controlled Group Formation
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2007)

2003

29. Do Non-strategic Sanctions Obey the Law of Demand? The Demand for Punishment in the Voluntary Contribution Mechanism
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Games and Economic Behavior (2006)
30. Does Egalitarianism Have a Future?
    Working Papers, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    Also in Department of Economics, California Davis - Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Literature (1998)

2002

31. Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry and Efficiency
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (36)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Journal (2005)

2000

32. Investigating the Rise of Labor Redundancy in China's State Industry
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
33. States and Markets:the Advantage of an Early Start
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Growth (2002)

1999

34. Reciprocity in a Two Part Dictator Game
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
    Also in Working Papers, Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2004)

1997

35. China's State-Owned Enterprises in the First Reform Decade: An Analysis of a Declining Monopsony
    William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Economic Change and Restructuring (2002)
36. Pre-Reform Industry and The State Monopsony in China
    William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan View citations (3)
37. Values and Institutions in Economic Analysis
    Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (11)

1996

38. Why Capital (Usually) Hires Labor: An Assessment of Proposed Explanations
    Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University View citations (7)

Undated

39. Share and Share Alike? Intelligence, Socialization, Personality, and Gender-Pairing as Determinants of Giving
    Working Papers, Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) View citations (7)
40. Trust in the New Economy
    Working Papers, Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) View citations (3)
41. Trust, Communication and Contracts: An Experiment
    Working Papers, Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2009)

Journal Articles

2013

1. Book Reviews
   Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61, (2), 470 - 472

2011

2. Lavish returns on cheap talk: Two-way communication in trust games
   The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2011, 40, (1), 1-13
3. MONITORING IN TEAMS: USING LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS TO STUDY A THEORY OF THE FIRM
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9, (4), 785-816 View citations (5)
4. Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes
   Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, (9), 1213-1222 View citations (4)
   Also in Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, (9-10), 1213-1222 (2011) View citations (3)
5. Sub-Saharan Growth Surprises: Being Heterogeneous, Inland and Close to the Equator Does not Slow Growth Within Africa-super-†
   Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20, (2), 217-262
6. Symposium: Trust among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, with and without Textual and Visual Cues
   Southern Economic Journal, 2011, 78, (1), 63-86

2010

7. Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
   American Economic Review, 2010, 100, (5), 2205-29 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper (2008)
8. Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2010, 125, (4), 1627-1682 View citations (17)
   See also Working Paper (2008)

2009

9. HUMAN NATURE, COMMUNICATION AND TRUST
   Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2009, 80, (1), 119-131
10. Not just babble: Opening the black box of communication in a voluntary contribution experiment
    European Economic Review, 2009, 53, (3), 309-326 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper (2009)
11. Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 70, (1-2), 106-121 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper
12. Who to punish? Individual decisions and majority rule in mitigating the free rider problem
    European Economic Review, 2009, 53, (5), 495-511 View citations (21)

2008

13. Agriculture, Diffusion and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution
    Economica, 2008, 75, (300), 729-748 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper (2006)
14. Reforming China's SOEs: An Overview
    Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50, (3), 353-380 View citations (1)

2007

15. Early Starts, Reversals and Catch-up in the Process of Economic Development
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109, (2), 387-413 View citations (19)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
16. The ecology of collective action: A public goods and sanctions experiment with controlled group formation
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2007, 62, (4), 495-521 View citations (25)
    See also Working Paper (2004)

2006

17. Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment?
    Experimental Economics, 2006, 9, (3), 265-279 View citations (22)
18. Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006, 60, (1), 11-26 View citations (68)
    See also Working Paper (2005)
19. Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism
    Games and Economic Behavior, 2006, 54, (1), 1-24 View citations (62)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
20. Privatization and firm performance: A comparison between rural and urban enterprises in China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34, (3), 608-633 View citations (3)

2005

21. Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment
    Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (8), 1421-1435 View citations (37)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
22. Voluntary Association in Public Goods Experiments: Reciprocity, Mimicry and Efficiency
    Economic Journal, 2005, 115, (506), 1032-1053 View citations (40)
    See also Working Paper (2002)

2004

23. Culture, genes and cooperation: comment on Henrich
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (1), 101-104
24. Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (3), 333-352 View citations (39)
    See also Working Paper (1999)
25. Share and share alike? Gender-pairing, personality, and cognitive ability as determinants of giving
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004, 25, (5), 581-589 View citations (26)
26. The Quest for Development
    World Economics, 2004, 5, (2), 1-31 View citations (6)

2003

27. Soft budget constraints, social burdens, and labor redundancy in China's state industry
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2003, 31, (1), 110-133 View citations (16)

2002

28. China's State-Owned Enterprises in the First Reform Decade: An Analysis of a Declining Monopsony
    Economic Change and Restructuring, 2002, 35, (2), 109-39 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (1997)
29. States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start
    Journal of Economic Growth, 2002, 7, (4), 347-69 View citations (97)
    See also Working Paper (2000)

2001

30. On the Emergence of Labour Redundancy in China's State Industry: Findings from a 1980-1994 Data Panel
    Comparative Economic Studies, 2001, 43, (2), 111-128 View citations (3)

2000

31. Can an evolutionary approach to development predict post-war economic growth?
    The Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (3), 1-30 View citations (4)
32. On some implications of evolutionary psychology for the study of preferences and institutions
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2000, 43, (1), 91-99 View citations (20)
33. Prereform Industry and State Monopsony in China
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000, 28, (1), 32-60 View citations (3)
34. Values Matter
    World Economics, 2000, 1, (1), 39-60 View citations (1)
35. Why capital suppliers (usually) hire workers: what we know and what we need to know
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2000, 43, (3), 319-336 View citations (21)

1999

36. Income distribution, government transfers, and the problem of unequal influence
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 15, (2), 207-228 View citations (30)
37. Preindustrial and Postwar Economic Development: Is There a Link?
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1999, 47, (3), 471-95 View citations (11)
38. Valores e instituciones en el análisis económico
    CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, 1999, (33), 43-77

1998

39. Comment on T. Eggertsson, "Limits to Institutional Reforms."
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1998, 100, (1), 359-63
40. Does Egalitarianism Have a Future?
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1998, 36, (2), 861-902 View citations (19)
    See also Working Paper (2003)

1997

41. China's collectivisation puzzle: A new resolution
    The Journal of Development Studies, 1997, 33, (6), 741-763
42. On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises
    World Development, 1997, 25, (10), 1639-1655 View citations (9)
43. Productivity and Organization in China's Rural Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1997, 24, (2), 181-201 View citations (13)

1995

44. Economic reform and smallholder agriculture in Tanzania: A discussion of recent market liberalization, road rehabilitation, and technology dissemination efforts
    World Development, 1995, 23, (2), 311-326 View citations (8)
45. Markets, hierarchies, and information: On a paradox in the economics of organization
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1995, 26, (3), 373-390 View citations (4)

1994

46. Elasticities and factor weights for agricultural growth accounting: A look at the data for China
    China Economic Review, 1994, 5, (2), 191-204 View citations (7)

1993

47. Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (2), 530-539 View citations (3)
48. EXIT, VOICE, AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE: AGENCY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
    Economics and Politics, 1993, 5, (3), 205-218 View citations (2)
49. Incentives and Monitoring in Cooperatives with Labor-Proportionate Sharing Schemes
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (3), 663-686 View citations (2)
50. Ownership and the Nature of the Firm
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (2), 243-263 View citations (11)
51. Productivity consequences of alternative land division methods in China's decollectivization An econometric analysis
    Journal of Development Economics, 1993, 42, (2), 357-386 View citations (4)
52. The Supply of Labour by Individuals to a Chinese Collective Farm: The Case of Dahe Commune
    Economica, 1993, 60, (240), 381-96
53. Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Producer Cooperatives: Will Ever the Twain Meet?
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1993, 31, (3), 1290-320 View citations (73)

1992

54. Dualism and Reform in China
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1992, 40, (3), 467-93 View citations (10)
55. Food insecurity and the social division of labour in Tanzania, 1919-85: Deborah Faby Bryceson, (Macmillan, London, 1990) pp. xvii+285
    Journal of Development Economics, 1992, 38, (2), 431-433
56. The role of exit costs in the theory of cooperative teams
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1992, 16, (4), 596-618 View citations (8)

1991

57. Does Poor Supervisability Undermine Teamwork? Evidence from an Unexpected
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (4), 996-1001 View citations (3)
58. Factors behind the Supply and Demand for Less Alienating Work, and Some International Illustrations
    Journal of Economic Studies, 1991, 18, (1), 18-41 View citations (1)
59. The political economy of collective farms: An analysis of China's post-mao rural reforms:, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1988. viii + 259 pp., index. $44.50
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1991, 15, (1), 176-178

1990

60. Effort, productivity, and incentives in a 1970s Chinese People's commune
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1990, 14, (1), 88-104 View citations (2)
61. Peasant economics: Farm households and agrarian development:, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988, xiv + 257 pp., index. $59.50
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1990, 14, (1), 140-141
62. The New China: Comparative economic development in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: Alvin Rabushka (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1987)
    Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 32, (1), 230-231
63. Village communities, cooperation, and inequality in Tanzania: Comments on Collier et al
    World Development, 1990, 18, (1), 147-153 View citations (1)

1989

64. Pre- and post-reform income distribution in a Chinese Commune: The case of dahe township in Hebei Province
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1989, 13, (3), 406-445 View citations (5)

1988

65. Marx and Disequilibrium
    Economics and Philosophy, 1988, 4, (02), 333-336
66. Ration Subsidies and Incentives in the Pre-reform Chinese Commune
    Economica, 1988, 55, (218), 235-47
67. The Firm as Association Versus the Firm as Commodity
    Economics and Philosophy, 1988, 4, (02), 243-266 View citations (1)
68. The incentive effects of monitoring under alternative compensation schemes
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1988, 6, (1), 109-119 View citations (6)

1987

69. The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms, markets, relational contracting:, New York: The Free Press, 1985. xiv + 450 pp., index, $27.95
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1987, 11, (2), 282-285
70. The incentive problem and the demise of team farming in China
    Journal of Development Economics, 1987, 26, (1), 103-127

1986

71. The cooperative game theory of the firm:, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. ix + 219 pp. $25.00
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1986, 10, (2), 183-184

1985

72. Choice and Efficiency in a Model of Democratic Semi-collective Agriculture
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1985, 37, (1), 1-21 View citations (1)
73. Internal labor markets: Paul Osterman, ed., (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) pp. xii + 296, $30.00
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1985, 6, (2), 212-216
74. Self-management: Economic theory and yugoslav practice:, Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. x + 264 pp., index. $49.50
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1985, 9, (1), 102-106

1984

75. On Some Recent Explanations of Why Capital Hires Labor
    Economic Inquiry, 1984, 22, (2), 171-87 View citations (6)
76. Tanzanian and african socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer
    World Development, 1984, 12, (4), 461-464
77. Workers and Incentives:, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982. 239 pp. $60.00
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1984, 8, (2), 228-231

1983

78. A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity: Reconsidering the private, unimodal solution
    World Development, 1983, 11, (2), 77-100 View citations (2)

1982

79. Some behavioral perspectives on the dominance of hierarchical over democratic forms of enterprise
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1982, 3, (2-3), 139-160 View citations (2)
80. Wealth and poverty:, New York: Basic Books, 1981. xii + 306 pp. $16.95
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1982, 6, (2), 213-216

1981

81. Is a democratic collective agriculture possible?: Theoretical considerations and evidence from Tanzania
    Journal of Development Economics, 1981, 9, (3), 375-403
82. On optimality in collective institutional choice
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1981, 5, (4), 392-403 View citations (2)
83. The organization of work: Comment
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1981, 2, (3), 273-279

1980

84. Voluntary collectivization: A model of producers' institutional choice
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1980, 4, (2), 125-157 View citations (2)

Books

1993

1. Continuity and Change in China's Rural Development: Collective and Reform Eras in Perspective
   OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press View citations (7)

Edited books

2009

1. The Economic Nature of the Firm
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
2. The Economic Nature of the Firm
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2000

3. Economics, Values, and Organization
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

Chapters

2006

1. Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production
   Elsevier