Research
My research uses Behavioural and Experimental Economics to identify and investigate institutions and features of the environment that can promote cooperation and collective action among individuals. Major applications for my research are in:
Environmental and Resource Economics
Public Economics and Political Economy
Organisational/Managerial Economics
You can also view my Google Scholar profile and my Researchgate profile.
Publications:
Working paper versions are available on my Researchgate profile.
30. Ramalingam, Abhijit, Brock Stoddard and James M. Walker (2024) "Competition for talent: heterogenous abilities in team production", Experimental Economics, accepted.
29. Kimbrough, Erik O., Erin L. Krupka, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer M. Murray, Abhijit Ramalingam, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter (2024) "On the Stability of Norms and Norm-Following Propensity: A Cross-Cultural Panel Study with Adolescents", Experimental Economics, forthcoming.
28. Ramalingam, Abhijit and Brock Stoddard (2024) "Inequality reduction and cooperation: injection of additional resources", Economics Letters, 237, Article 111667.
27. Boosey, Luke and R. Mark Isaac and Abhijit Ramalingam (2024) "Limiting the leader: Fairness concerns and opportunism in team production", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 218, 209-244. Special Issue on Social Dilemmas.
26. Ramalingam, Abhijit and Brock Stoddard (2024) "Does reducing inequality increase cooperation?", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 217, 170-183.
25. Murray, Jennifer, Sharon Sánchez-Franco, Olga Lucia Sarmiento, Erik Kimbrough, Christopher Tate, Shannon Montgomery, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin Krupka, Felipe Montes, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Frank Kee, and Ruth Hunter (2023) "Selection homophily and peer influence for adolescents' smoking and vaping norms and outcomes in high and middle-income settings", Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10, Article 615.
24. Bailey, Nicholas, Abhijit Ramalingam and Brock Stoddard (2023) "Experimental (re-)analysis of the house money effect in a public goods game", Journal of the Economic Science Association, 9(1), 1-14.
23. Tate, Christopher, Rajnish Kumar, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Shannon C. Montgomery, Huiyu Zhou, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erin Krupka, Erik Kimbrough, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter (2022) "The personality and cognitive traits associated with adolescents' sensitivity to social norms", Scientific Reports, 12, Article 15247.
22. Baik, Kyung Hwan, Subhasish Modak Chowdhury, and Abhijit Ramalingam (2021) "Group Size and Matching Protocol in Contests", Canadian Journal of Economics, 54(4), 1716-1736.
21. Fallucchi, Francesco, Abhijit Ramalingam, Bettina Rockenbach and Marcin Waligora (2021) "Inequality and competitive effort: The roles of asymmetric resources, opportunity and outcomes", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 185, 81-96.
20. Hargreaves Heap, Shaun, Abhijit Ramalingam and Brock Stoddard (2021) "Team competition when there is within-team inequality", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 90, Article 101614.
19. Jennifer M. Murray, Erik O. Kimbrough, Erin L. Krupka, Abhijit Ramalingam, Rajnish Kumar, Joanna McHugh Power, Sharon Sanchez-Franco, Olga L. Sarmiento, Frank Kee, and Ruth F. Hunter (2020) "Confirmatory factor analysis comparing incentivized experiments with self-report methods to elicit adolescent smoking and vaping social norms: MECHANISMS study", Scientific Reports, 10, Article 15818.
18. Ruth F. Hunter, Felipe Montes, Jennifer M. Murray, Sharon C. Sanchez-Franco, Shannon C. Montgomery, Joaquín Jaramillo, Christopher Tate, Rajnish Kumar, Laura Dunne, Abhijit Ramalingam, Erik Kimbrough, Erin Krupka, Huiyu Zhou, Laurence Moore, Linda Bauld, Blanca Llorente, Olga L. Sarmiento, and Frank Kee (2020) "MECHANISMS Study: Using Game Theory to Assess the Effects of Social Norms and Social Networks on Adolescent Smoking in Schools – Study Protocol", Frontiers in Public Health, 8, Article 377.
17. Baik, Kyung Hwan, Subhasish Modak Chowdhury, and Abhijit Ramalingam (2020) "The Effects of Conflict Budget on the Intensity of Conflict: An Experimental Investigation", Experimental Economics, 23(1), 240-258.
16. Ramalingam, Abhijit, Antonio Morales and James M. Walker (2019) "Peer punishment of acts of omission versus acts of commission in give and take social dilemmas", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 164, 133-147.
15. Cartwright, Edward and Abhijit Ramalingam (2019) "Framing in public good games: Choices or externalities?", Economics Letters, 179, 42-45.
14. Ramalingam, Abhijit, Brock Stoddard and James M. Walker (2019) "The market for talent: Competition for resources and self-governance in teams", Games and Economic Behavior, 114, 268-284.
13. van Leeuwen, Boris, Abhijit Ramalingam, David Rojo Arjona and Arthur Schram (2019) "Centrality and cooperation in networks", Experimental Economics, 22(1), 178-196.
12. Modak Chowdhury, Subhasish, Joo Young Jeon and Abhijit Ramalingam (2018) "Property Rights and Loss Aversion in Contests", Economic Inquiry, 56(3), 1492-1511. Symposium on Contests: Theory and Evidence.
11. Ramalingam, Abhijit, Antonio Morales and James M. Walker (2018) "Varying experimental instructions to improve comprehension: punishment in public goods games", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 73, 66-73.
10. Hargreaves Heap, Shaun, Abhijit Ramalingam and David Rojo Arjona (2017) “Social information 'nudges': an experiment with multiple group references”, Southern Economic Journal, 84(1), 348-365.
9. Modak Chowdhury, Subhasish, Joo Young Jeon and Abhijit Ramalingam (2016) "Identity and Group Conflict", European Economic Review, 90, 107-121. Special Issue on Social Identity and Discrimination.
8. Hargreaves Heap, Shaun, Abhijit Ramalingam and Brock Stoddard (2016) "Endowment inequality in public goods games: A re-examination", Economics Letters, 146, 4-7.
7. Ramalingam, Abhijit, Sara Godoy, Antonio Morales and James M. Walker (2016) "An individualistic approach to institution formation in public good games", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 129, 18-36.
6. Hargreaves Heap, Shaun, Abhijit Ramalingam, Siddharth Ramalingam and Brock Stoddard (2015) "'Doggedness' or 'disengagement'? An experiment on the effect of inequality in endowment on behavior in team competitions", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 120, 80-93.
5. Saaksvuori, Lauri and Abhijit Ramalingam (2015) "Bargaining under surveillance: Evidence from a three-person ultimatum game", Journal of Economic Psychology, 51, 66-78.
4. Leibbrandt, Andreas, Abhijit Ramalingam, Lauri Saaksvuori and James M. Walker (2015) "Incomplete punishment networks in public goods games: experimental evidence", Experimental Economics, 18(1), 15-37. Special Issue in honour of Elinor 'Lin' Ostrom.
3. Ramalingam, Abhijit (2014) "On the value of relative comparisons in firms", Economics Letters, 124(3), 446-448.
2. Ramalingam, Abhijit (2012) "The relevance of irrelevant information in the dictator game", Economics Bulletin, 32(1), 746-754.
1. Ramalingam, Abhijit and Michael T. Rauh (2010) "The Firm as a Socialization Device", Management Science, 56(12), 2191-2206.
Other Publications:
Ramalingam, Abhijit (2021) "Book Review of A Research Agenda for Experimental Economics edited by Ananish Chaudhuri", Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 95, Article 101777.
Cox, James C., R. Mark Isaac and Abhijit Ramalingam (2020) "Introduction to the Special Issue: Insights from Experiments for Public Economics and Public Policy", Public Finance Review, 48(6), 711-713.
Working Papers:
Do financial incentives crowd-out/in the in-group bias in preferences? An experiment on the exogeneity/endogeneity of preferences (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, and Eugenio Levi) - under review
Causes of inequality and the choice of enforcement in a voluntary contributions mechanism (with Quentin Atkinson, Ananish Chaudhuri, Scott Claessens, Michalis Drouvelis and Brock Stoddard)
Does group identification promote giving with respect to windfall gains in a dictator game? (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap, and Eugenio Levi)
Absolute vs. relative poverty and wealth: Cooperation in the presence of between-group inequality (with Eugenio Levi)
Work in Progress:
Status and trust in representative leaders: A lab-in-the-field experiment in rural Sarawak (with Nor Izzatina Abdul Aziz and Robert Sugden) - Awarded IFREE Small Grant (Co-PI, April 2016) - manuscript under preparation
'I' and 'we': spillovers between individual and social tasks (with Shaun Hargreaves Heap and Eugenio Levi) - Awarded a grant from the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (Co-I, Oct 2015) - manuscript under preparation
Leadership and team building by managers (with Thorsten Chmura, Francesco Fallucchi and Simon Gachter) - Awarded a grant from the ESRC Network for Integrated Behavioural Science (Co-I, Oct 2016) - manuscript under preparation
Causes of inequality and social cohesion (with Ananish Chaudhuri, Eugenio Levi and Sanket Ron Sen) - experimental sessions completed
Better to be lucky: Behaviour in repeated contests (with David Bruner, Todd Cherry and Eugenio Levi) - data collection in progress
Divided loyalties and communication in coordination games (with Caleb Cox, John Lightle and Brock Stoddard) - experimental sessions completed
Voluntary redistribution and cooperation in heterogeneous social dilemmas (with Christine Gutekunst) - experimental sessions halted by the bloody virus
Collateral enforcement in public goods games (with Kenju Kamei and Brock Stoddard) - data collection in progress