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2015: Teams, Organization and Education Outcomes: Evidence from a field experiment in Bangladesh

Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Eleonora Patacchini and Yves Zenou

2015: Assessing Piketty’s laws of capitalism

Jakob Madsen, Antonio Minniti and Francesco Venturini

2015: Is investing in Islamic stocks profitable? Evidence from the Dow Jones Islamic market indexes

Hooi Hooi Lean, Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

2015: Income inequality in China: Testing the Kuznets Hypothesis with National Time Series and Provincial Panel Data 1978-2011

Wenli Cheng and Yongzheng Wu

2015: Can Testing Improve Student Learning? An Evaluation of the Mathematics Diagnostic Testing Project

Julian R. Betts, Youjin Hahn and Andrew C. Zau

2015: Education, Marriage and Fertility: Long-Term Evidence from a Female Stipend Program in Bangladesh

Youjin Hahn, Asad Islam, Kanti Nuzhat, Russell Smyth and Hee-Seung Yang

2015: Does Consuming More Make You Happier? Evidence from Chinese Panel Data

Haining Wang, Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

2015: Unemployment and the Labor Share

Sephorah Mangin

2015: A Theory of Production, Matching, and Distribution

Sephorah Mangin

2015: Bailout Stigma

Yeon-Koo Che, Chongwoo Choe and Keeyoung Rhee

2015: Determinants of R&D intensity and its impact on firm value in an innovative economy in which family business groups are dominant: The case of South Korea

Byung S. Min and Russell Smyth

2015: The effect of after-school classes on private tuition, mental health, and academic outcomes: evidence from Korea*

Daniel Carr and Liang Wang

2015: Growth-Globalisation-Emissions Nexus: The Role of Population in Australia

Muhammad Shahbaz, Mita Bhattacharya and Khalid Ahmed

2015: China’s Imbalanced Sex Ratio and Satisfaction with Marital Relationships

Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

2015: Dynamics of Natural Gas Consumption, Output and Trade: Empirical Evidence from the Emerging Economies

Md. Samsul Alam, Sudharshan Reddy Paramati, Muhammad Shahbaz and Mita Bhattacharya

2015: Does Home Production Drive Structural Transformation?

Alessio Moro, Solmaz Moslehi and Alessi Moro

2015: Measuring Poverty and Inequality from Highly Aggregated Small Area Data: The Changing Fortunes of Latrobe Valley Households

Jill Wright, Maria Rebecca Valenzuela and Duangkamon Chotikapanich

2015: Charitable Giving and Intermediation

Nadine Chlaß, Lata Gangadharan and Kristy Jones

2015: Country Size, Economic Structure and Transaction Efficiency: An Asymmetric Spatial General Equilibrium Model of Income Differences across Nations

Junhua Li and Wenli Cheng

2015: Microcredit Program Participation and Household Food Security in Rural Bangladesh

Asad Islam, Chandana Maitra, Debayan Pakrashi and Russell Smyth

2015: The Prince – or better no prince? The Strategic Value of Appointing a Successor

Kai Konrad and Vai-Lam Mui

2015: Rich Communication, Social Motivations, and Coordinated Resistance against Divide-and-Conquer: A Laboratory Investigation

Timothy Cason and Vai-Lam Mui

2015: Individual versus Group Play in the Repeated Coordinated Resistance Game

Timothy Cason and Vai-Lam Mui

2015: Growth-Globalisation-Emissions Nexus: The Role of Population in Australia

Muhammad Shahbaz, Mita Bhattacharya and Khalid Ahmed

2015: Estimates of Spatial Prices in India and their Sensitivity to Alternative Estimation Methods and Choice of Items

Amita Majumder and Ranjan Ray

2015: A multicomponent DEA approach to measure the economic and energy efficiencies of OECD countries

Abbas Valadkhani, Israfil Roshdi and Russell Smyth

2015: Crime Victimization, Neighbourhood Safety and Happiness in China

Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

2015: Stadiums and Scheduling: Measuring Deadweight Losses in Professional Sports Leagues, 1920-1970

Lional Frost, Luc Borrowman and Abdel K Halabi

2015: The Financial Econometrics of Price Discovery and Predictability

Seema Narayan and Russell Smyth

2015: A Pricewise Method for Estimating the Lorenz Curve

ZuXiang Wang and Russell Smyth

2015: An experimental study of contact effects and their persistence on Malawian shopkeepers’ willingness to spend future time with their Chinese counterparts

Jun Gu, Annika Mueller, Ingrid Nielsen, Jason Shachat and Russell Smyth

2015: Conditional Convergence in US Disaggregated Petroleum Consumption at the Sector Level

Hooi Hooi Lean and Russell Smyth

2015: Food Bowl or Folly? The economics of irrigating Northern Australia

Jared Dent and Michael Ward

2015: Barriers to Prosperity: Parasitic and Infectious Diseases, IQ and Economic Development

Jakob Madsen

2014: Pricing in competitive search markets: Experimental evidence of the roles of price information and fairness perceptions

Nejat Anbarci and Nick Feltovich

2014: Female Labour Force Participation, Infant Mortality and Fertility in Malaysia

Audrey Kim Lan Siah and Grace Lee

2014: Deconstructing Giving: Donor Types and How They Give

Lata Gangadharan, Philip Grossman and Kristy Jones

2014: Accounting for Labor Misallocation in China with Provincial Data 1980-2010

Peiwen Bai and Wenli Cheng

2014: Relative Earnings and Firm Performance: Evidence from Publicly-listed Firms in China, 2005-2012

Peiwen Bai and Wenli Cheng

2014: A little help may be no help at all: child labor and scholarships in Nepal

Gaurav Datt and Leah Uhe

2014: Are Chinese Workers Compensated for Occupational Risk?

Haining Wang, Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

2014: Does Greater School Autonomy Make a Difference? Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment in South Korea

Youjin Hahn, Liang Wang and Hee-Seung Yang

2014: Economic Growth, Coal Demand, Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Empirical Findings from India with Policy Implications

Mita Bhattacharya, Hooi Hooi Lean and Sankar Bhattacharya

2014: Corporate Philanthropy in China: A Case of Doing Well by Doing Good?

Zhong Qin, Minghuan Huang and Wenli Cheng

2014: The Value of Heterogeneous Property Rights and the Costs of Water Volatility

Daniel A. Brent

2014: Housing Property Rights and Subjective Wellbeing in Urban China

Zhiming Cheng, Stephen King, Russell Smyth and Haining Wang

2014: Putting One's Money Where One's Mouth is: Increasing Saliency in the Field

Daniel Brent, Lata Gangadharan, Anke Leroux and Paul Raschky

2014: Measuring Housing Affordability: What Types of Australian Households are in Stress?

Luc Borrowman, Gennadi Kazakevitch and Lionel Frost

2014: Returns to Education in China: A Meta-analysis

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Vinod Mishra

2014: Government Transfers and Growth: Is there Evidence of Genuine Effect?

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Siew Ling Yew

2014: Sex and Happiness

Zhiming Cheng and Russell Smyth

2014: Business Cycle Variability and Growth Linkage

John Inekwe

2014: All Work and No Play? The Effects of Ability Sorting on Students’ Non-school Inputs, Time Use, and Grade Anxiety

Liang Wang

2014: THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF CIVIL CONFLICTS ON EDUCATION, EARNINGS AND FERTILITY: EVIDENCE FROM CAMBODIA

Asad Islam, Chandarany Ouch, Russell Smyth and Liang Wang

2014: Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra,, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria

2014: An Empirical Investigation of Peer effects on Fertility Preferences

Ankita Mishra and Jaai Parasnis

2014: How does the effect of communication vary with group size? Experimental evidence from the multi-player stag hunt

Nick Feltovich and Philip Grossman

2014: Identifying Gender Bias in Parental Attitude: An Experimental Approach

Lutfunnahar Begum, Philip Grossman and Asad Islam

2014: A Unified Framework for the Estimation of Intra and Inter Country Food Purchasing Power Parities with Application to Cross Country Comparisons of Food Expenditure: India, Indonesia and Vietnam

Amita Majumder, Ranjan Ray and Kompal Sinha

2014: Parental Attitude and Investment in Children’s Education and Health in Developing Countries

Lutfunnahar Begum, Philip Grossman and Asad Islam

2014: Posted prices and bargaining: the case of Monopoly

Stephen King and Demitra Patras

2014: An experimental study of the effects of intergroup contact on attitudes in urban China

Jun Gu, Ingrid Nielsen, Jason Shachat, Russell Smyth and Yujia Peng

2014: Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict at the Regional Level

Roland Hodler and Paul Raschky

2014: The Job Satisfaction-Life Satisfaction Relationship Revisited: Using the Lewbel Estimation Technique to Estimate Causal Effects Using Cross-Sectional Data

Vinod Mishra, Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth and Alexander Newman

2014: The Effect of Military Expenditure on Growth: An Empirical Synthesis

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Siew Ling Yew

2014: The Microcredit Puzzle: Labour Supply Behaviour of Rural Households in Bangladesh

Asad Islam and Debayan Pakrashi

2014: Modeling an Aggregate Agricultural Panel with Application to U.S. Farm Input Demands

Jesse Tack, Rulon Pope, Jeffrey LaFrance and Ricardo Cavazos-Cepeda

2014: Convergence in energy consumption per capita among ASEAN countries

Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

2014: Applied Econometrics and a Decade of Energy Economics Research

Paresh Narayan and Russell Smyth

2014: Unit root properties of natural gas spot and futures prices: The relevance of heteroskedasticity in high frequency data

Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

2014: A Theory of Factor Shares

Sephorah Mangin

2014: Interindustry Wage Differentials, Technology Adoption, and Job Polarization

Myungkyu Shim and Hee-Seung Yang

2014: Business Cycle Properties of Job Polarization Using Consistent Occupational Data

Myungkyu Shim and Hee-Seung Yang

2014: Does microfinance change informal lending in village economies? Evidence from Bangladesh

Asad Islam, Chau Nguyen and Russell Smyth

2014: Discouraged Workers in Developed Countries and Added Workers in Developing Countries? Unemployment Rate and Labour Force Participation

Grace H.Y. Leea and Jaai Parasnis

2014: Immigrant–Native Wage Inequality across Occupational Sectors in Australia

Asad Islam and Jaai Parasnis

2014: Sustainability and Outreach: A Comparative Study of MFIs in South Asia and Latin America & the Caribbean

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Ana Marr

2014: Understanding the Kuznets Process: An Empirical Investigation of Income Inequality in China 1978-2011

Wenli Cheng, Yongzheng Wu, Cema Cema and College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hunan Normal University College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Hunan Normal University

2014: Optimal Environmental Tax-Subsidy Regime in the Presence of Increasing Returns

Wenli Cheng, Dingsheng Zhang and Cema Cema

2014: Environmental Levies, Distortionary Taxation and Increasing Returns

Wenli Cheng, Dingsheng Zhang and Cema Cema

2014: Is Monthly US Natural Gas Consumption Stationary? New Evidence from a GARCH Unit Root Test with Structural Breaks

Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

2014: Selection, Tournaments, and Dishonesty

Marco Faravelli, Lana Friesen and Lata Gangadharan

2014: The Random-Walk Hypothesis on the Indian Stock Market

Ankita Mishra, Vinod Mishra and Russell Smyth

2014: Fiscal Deficit, Trade Deficit, and Financial Account Deficit: Triple Deficits Hypothesis with the U.S. Experience

Tuck Cheong Tang

2014: Hedging Supply Risks: An Optimal Urban Water Portfolio

Anke Leroux and Vance Martin

2014: Optimal Investment in Ecological Rehabilitation under Climate Change

Anke Leroux and Stuart Whitten

2014: The Impact of Microfinance Interventions: A Meta-analysis

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

2014: Parents' attitudes towards science and their children's science achievement

Liyanage Devangi H. Perera,, Eduard Bomhoff and Grace Lee

2014: Who Gets Money First? Monetary Expansion, Ownership Structure and Wage Inequality in China

Peiwen Bai and Wenli Cheng