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Working Papers
2013
- Persistence of fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There was no Post-Columbian Reversal
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
2012
- 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
- Determinants and Economic Consequences of Colonization: A Global Analysis
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
- In Broad Daylight: Full Information and Higher-order Punishment Opportunities Promote Cooperation
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Trust among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, with and without Textual and Visual Cues
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
2009
- 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
- Getting Punnishment Right: Do Costly Monitoring or Redustributive Punishment Help?
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
- 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)
- 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
- Lavish Returns on Cheap Talk: Non-binding Communication in a Trust Experiment
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (7)
- Monitoring In Teams: A Model and Experiment on the Central Monitor Hypothesis
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
- Preferences For Redistribution and Perception of Fairness: An Experimental Study
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (30)
2006
- 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)
- Labor-Managed Firms
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
- Sub-Saharan Growth Surprises: Geography, Institutions And History in an all African Data Panel
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
- Trust, Communication and Contracts: Experimental Evidence
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics
2005
- Can Endogenously Chosen Institutions Mitigate the Free-Rider Problem and Reduce Perverse Punishment?
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (11)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- On Perverse and Second-Order Punishment in Public Goods Experiments with Decentralized Sanctioning
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (14)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Investigating the Rise of Labor Redundancy in China's State Industry
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Values and Institutions in Economic Analysis
Working Papers, Brown University, Department of Economics View citations (11)
1996
- Why Capital (Usually) Hires Labor: An Assessment of Proposed Explanations
Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University View citations (7)
Undated
- 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)
- Trust in the New Economy
Working Papers, Human Resources and Labor Studies, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus) View citations (3)
- 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
- Book Reviews
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61, (2), 470 - 472
2011
- Lavish returns on cheap talk: Two-way communication in trust games
The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2011, 40, (1), 1-13
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- HUMAN NATURE, COMMUNICATION AND TRUST
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2009, 80, (1), 119-131
- 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)
- Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 70, (1-2), 106-121 View citations (16)
See also Working Paper
- 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
- Agriculture, Diffusion and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution
Economica, 2008, 75, (300), 729-748 View citations (10)
See also Working Paper (2006)
- Reforming China's SOEs: An Overview
Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50, (3), 353-380 View citations (1)
2007
- 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)
- 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
- Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment?
Experimental Economics, 2006, 9, (3), 265-279 View citations (22)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Culture, genes and cooperation: comment on Henrich
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2004, 53, (1), 101-104
- 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)
- 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)
- The Quest for Development
World Economics, 2004, 5, (2), 1-31 View citations (6)
2003
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Can an evolutionary approach to development predict post-war economic growth?
The Journal of Development Studies, 2000, 36, (3), 1-30 View citations (4)
- 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)
- Prereform Industry and State Monopsony in China
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000, 28, (1), 32-60 View citations (3)
- Values Matter
World Economics, 2000, 1, (1), 39-60 View citations (1)
- 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
- Income distribution, government transfers, and the problem of unequal influence
European Journal of Political Economy, 1999, 15, (2), 207-228 View citations (30)
- Preindustrial and Postwar Economic Development: Is There a Link?
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1999, 47, (3), 471-95 View citations (11)
- Valores e instituciones en el análisis económico
CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa, 1999, (33), 43-77
1998
- Comment on T. Eggertsson, "Limits to Institutional Reforms."
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1998, 100, (1), 359-63
- Does Egalitarianism Have a Future?
Journal of Economic Literature, 1998, 36, (2), 861-902 View citations (19)
See also Working Paper (2003)
1997
- China's collectivisation puzzle: A new resolution
The Journal of Development Studies, 1997, 33, (6), 741-763
- On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises
World Development, 1997, 25, (10), 1639-1655 View citations (9)
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (2), 530-539 View citations (3)
- EXIT, VOICE, AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE: AGENCY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
Economics and Politics, 1993, 5, (3), 205-218 View citations (2)
- Incentives and Monitoring in Cooperatives with Labor-Proportionate Sharing Schemes
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (3), 663-686 View citations (2)
- Ownership and the Nature of the Firm
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1993, 17, (2), 243-263 View citations (11)
- 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)
- The Supply of Labour by Individuals to a Chinese Collective Farm: The Case of Dahe Commune
Economica, 1993, 60, (240), 381-96
- 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
- Dualism and Reform in China
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1992, 40, (3), 467-93 View citations (10)
- 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
- The role of exit costs in the theory of cooperative teams
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1992, 16, (4), 596-618 View citations (8)
1991
- Does Poor Supervisability Undermine Teamwork? Evidence from an Unexpected
American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (4), 996-1001 View citations (3)
- 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)
- 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
- Effort, productivity, and incentives in a 1970s Chinese People's commune
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1990, 14, (1), 88-104 View citations (2)
- 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
- 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
- Village communities, cooperation, and inequality in Tanzania: Comments on Collier et al
World Development, 1990, 18, (1), 147-153 View citations (1)
1989
- 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
- Marx and Disequilibrium
Economics and Philosophy, 1988, 4, (02), 333-336
- Ration Subsidies and Incentives in the Pre-reform Chinese Commune
Economica, 1988, 55, (218), 235-47
- The Firm as Association Versus the Firm as Commodity
Economics and Philosophy, 1988, 4, (02), 243-266 View citations (1)
- The incentive effects of monitoring under alternative compensation schemes
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1988, 6, (1), 109-119 View citations (6)
1987
- 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
- The incentive problem and the demise of team farming in China
Journal of Development Economics, 1987, 26, (1), 103-127
1986
- 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
- Choice and Efficiency in a Model of Democratic Semi-collective Agriculture
Oxford Economic Papers, 1985, 37, (1), 1-21 View citations (1)
- 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
- 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
- On Some Recent Explanations of Why Capital Hires Labor
Economic Inquiry, 1984, 22, (2), 171-87 View citations (6)
- Tanzanian and african socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer
World Development, 1984, 12, (4), 461-464
- Workers and Incentives:, Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982. 239 pp. $60.00
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1984, 8, (2), 228-231
1983
- 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
- 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)
- Wealth and poverty:, New York: Basic Books, 1981. xii + 306 pp. $16.95
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1982, 6, (2), 213-216
1981
- Is a democratic collective agriculture possible?: Theoretical considerations and evidence from Tanzania
Journal of Development Economics, 1981, 9, (3), 375-403
- On optimality in collective institutional choice
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1981, 5, (4), 392-403 View citations (2)
- The organization of work: Comment
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1981, 2, (3), 273-279
1980
- Voluntary collectivization: A model of producers' institutional choice
Journal of Comparative Economics, 1980, 4, (2), 125-157 View citations (2)
Books
1993
- 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
- The Economic Nature of the Firm
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
- The Economic Nature of the Firm
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
2000
- Economics, Values, and Organization
Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
Chapters
2006
- Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production
Elsevier
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