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Working Papers

2025

1. Climate Change Negotiations under the Shadow of History
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2023

2. The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
   See also Journal Article The power of religion: Islamic investing in the lab, International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier (2024) View citations (1) (2024)

2020

3. Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses): Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Borrowing to keep up (with the Joneses): Inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2023) View citations (6) (2023)

2019

4. Biased Policy Professionals
   CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford View citations (12)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2018) View citations (9)
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2017) View citations (8)
   Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. (2018) View citations (1)
   Discussion paper series, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University (2018) View citations (2)
   Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. (2017) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Biased Policy Professionals, The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank (2019) View citations (11) (2019)

2018

5. Encouraging Service Delivery to the Poor: Does Money Talk When Health Workers Are Pro-Poor ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank
6. Love the Job... or the Patient?: Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
   IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (3)
   Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2018) View citations (2)
   Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. (2017) View citations (1)

2017

7. It's not all fun and games: Feedback, task motivation, and effort
   Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
8. The Governance Game
   World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group

2016

9. Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations
   University of East Anglia School of Economics Working Paper Series, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. View citations (1)
   See also Chapter Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations, Research in Experimental Economics, Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2015

10. Cracking Down on Bribery
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (18)
    See also Journal Article Cracking down on bribery, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2015) View citations (18) (2015)

2013

11. Intrinsic motivation, effort and the call to public service
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (16)

2012

12. Experiments in culture and corruption: a review
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (40)
13. The Effects of Group Composition and Fractionalization in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation
    WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Journal Articles

2024

1. A simple twist of fate. An experiment on election uncertainty and democratic institutions
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 225, (C), 272-289
2. An experimental test of gaming incentives
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 224, (C), 825-850
3. Discrimination in healthcare: A field experiment with Pakistan's transgender community
   Labour Economics, 2024, 87, (C) View citations (1)
4. The power of religion: Islamic investing in the lab
   International Review of Financial Analysis, 2024, 96, (PB) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper The Power of Religion: Islamic Investing in the Lab, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2023) (2023)

2023

5. Borrowing to keep up (with the Joneses): Inequality, debt, and conspicuous consumption
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 206, (C), 222-242 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper Borrowing to Keep Up (with the Joneses): Inequality, Debt, and Conspicuous Consumption, Policy Research Working Paper Series (2020) View citations (4) (2020)

2022

6. Does cronyism pay? Costly ingroup favoritism in the lab
   Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60, (3), 1092-1110 View citations (2)

2019

7. Biased Policy Professionals
   The World Bank Economic Review, 2019, 33, (2), 310-327 View citations (11)
   See also Working Paper Biased Policy Professionals, CSAE Working Paper Series (2019) View citations (12) (2019)
8. Trust and power as determinants of tax compliance across 44 nations
   Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 74, (C) View citations (45)

2018

9. The use of video vignettes to measure health worker knowledge. Evidence from Burkina Faso
   Social Science & Medicine, 2018, 213, (C), 173-180 View citations (2)

2016

10. Pro-social motivation, effort and the call to public service
    European Economic Review, 2016, 83, (C), 139-164 View citations (74)

2015

11. Al Qaeda at the bar: coordinating ideologues and mercenaries in terrorist organizations
    Public Choice, 2015, 164, (1), 57-73 View citations (5)
12. Cracking down on bribery
    Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 45, (3), 579-600 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper Cracking Down on Bribery, MPRA Paper (2015) View citations (18) (2015)

2014

13. The Effects of Group Composition and Social Preference Heterogeneity in a Public Goods Game: An Agent-Based Simulation
    Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014, 17, (3), 5 View citations (5)

Chapters

2016

1. Mellowing with Tenure? Socialization Increases Prosocial Behavior in Public Organizations
   A chapter in Experiments in Organizational Economics, 2016, vol. 19, pp 127-140 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Mellowing with tenure? Socialization increases prosocial behavior in public organizations, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2012

2. Chapter 3 Experiments in Culture and Corruption: A Review
   A chapter in New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, 2012, pp 51-76 View citations (3)