Publications

Please see the attached PDF for a detailed Curriculum Vitae.  

Research Interests:

•         Experimental Economics

•         Environmental Economics

•         Institutions and Development

Publications:

A.    Journal Articles

1. 1. 1. 1.   Persuadable or Dissuadable Altruists? The Impact of Information of Recipient Characteristics on Giving (with Phil Grossman, Lingbo Huang, Matthew Leister and Erte Xiao). Economic Journal,  forthcoming.

1. 1. 1. 2. Charitable Giving and Intermediation:  a principal agent problem with hidden prices (with Nadine Chlaß and Kristy Jones). Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming.

1. 1. 1. 3. Do women receive less blame than men? Attribution of outcomes in a prosocial setting (with Nisvan Erkal and Boon Han Koh). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.

1. 1. 1. 4.  Using Willingness to Pay to Measure the Strength of Altruistic Motives (with Phil Grossman and Nina Xue), 2023, Economics Letters, forthcoming.

1. 1. 1. 5. Gender, Beliefs and Coordination with Externalities (with Tim Cason and Phil Grossman). Journal of Public Economics. 2022, 214, 14 p., 104744. 

1. 1. 1. 6. The Long-Term Effects of Genocide on Antisocial Preferences (with Asadul Islam, Chandarany Ouch and Liang Choon Wang). World Development. 2022, 160, 15 p., 106068.

1. 1. 1. 7. Mind your Ps and Qs! Variable Allowance Supply in the US Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (with Lana Friesen, Peyman Khezr and Ian A. MacKenzie). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 112, 102620, 24 pages.

1. 1. 1. 8.  Reducing Bias in Preference Elicitations for Environmental Public Goods (with Daniel Brent, Anke Leroux and Paul Raschky). Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2022, 66(2), 280-308. 

1. 1. 1. 9.  By Chance or by Choice? Biased Attribution of Others' Outcomes when Social Preferences Matter (with Nisvan Erkal and Boon Han Koh). Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 413-443. 

1. 1. 1. 10.  Lab-in-the-Field Experiments: Perspectives from Research on Gender. (with Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci). Japanese Economic Review, 2022, 73, 31-59 (Invited).

1. 1. 1. 11.  Leadership Selection: Can Changing the Default break the Glass Ceiling? (with Nisvan Erkal and Erte Xiao). Leadership Quarterly, 2022, 33(2), 101563.

1. 1. 1. 12.  Moving on up: The Impact of Income Mobility on Antisocial Behaviour (with Phil Grossman and Joe Vecci). European Economic Review, 134, 2021, 103686, 14 pages.

1. 1. 1. 13.  Inter-Firm Social Dilemmas with Agency Risk (with Tim Cason and Lana Friesen). European Economic Review, 2020, 129(C).

1. 1. 1. 14.  Replication: Belief Elicitation with Quadratic and Binarized Scoring Rules (with Nisvan Erkal and Boon Han Koh). Journal of Economic Psychology, 2020, 81.

1. 1. 1. 15.  Impact of Social Identity and Inequality on Antisocial Behaviour (with Phil Grossman, Mana Komai and Joe Vecci). European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 199-215.

1. 1. 1. 16.  Female Leaders and their Response to the Social Environment (with Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 164, 256-272.

1. 1. 1. 17.  Are Risks Over Multiple Attributes Traded Off? A Case Study of Aid. (with Glenn Harrison and Anke Leroux). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 164, 166-198. 

1. 1. 1. 18.  Taxation, Redistribution and Observability in Social Dilemmas (with Daniel Brent, Anca Mihut and Marie Claire Villeval). Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019. 21(5), 826-846. 

1. 1. 1. 19.  The Effect of Social Norms on Bribe Offers (with Klaus Abbink, Esteban Freidin and Rodrigo Moro). Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2018, 34(3), 457-474.

1. 1. 1. 20.  Paternalistic Giving: Restricting Recipient Choice. (with Philip Grossman, Kristy Jones and Matthew Leister). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 151, 143-170. 

1. 1. 1. 21.  Monetary and Non-Monetary Incentives in Real-effort Tournaments (with Nisvan Erkal and Boon Han Koh). European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 528-545. 

1. 1. 1. 22.  Peer Punishment Promotes Enforcement of Bad Social Norms (with Klaus Abbink, Toby Handfield and John Thrasher). Nature Communications, 2017, 8(1), Article number 609.

1. 1. 1. 23.  Normative Conflict and the Limit to Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations (with Nikos Nikiforakis and Marie Claire Villeval). European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156.

1. 1. 1. 24.  Searching for Preference Stability in a State Dependent World (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra and Subha Mani). Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 17-32.

1. 1. 1. 25.  Valuing Environmental Services Provided by Local Stormwater Management (with Daniel Brent, Allison Lassiter, Anke Leroux and Paul Raschky). Water Resources Research (53), 2017.

1. 1. 1. 26.  Repayment and Exclusion in a Microfinance Experiment (with Jean-Marie Baland, Pushkar Maitra and Rohini Somanathan). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 137, 176-190.

1. 1. 1. 27.  Behavioral Insights from Field Experiments in Environmental Economics (with Daniel Brent, Lana Friesen and Andreas Leibbrandt).  International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016, 10, 95-143. 

1. 1. 1. 28.  Regulatory Performance of Audit Tournaments and Compliance Observability (with Tim Cason and Lana Friesen). European Economic Review, 2016, 85, 288-306. 

1. 1. 1. 29.  Social Identity and Governance: The Behavioral Response to Female Leaders (with Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci). European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 302-325. 

1. 1. 1. 30.  Choosing to be Trained: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani and Samyukta Subramanian). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110(C), pp. 145-159. 

1. 1. 1. 31.  Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Convergence in Immigrants’ Preferences (with Lisa Cameron, Nisvan Erkal and Marina Zhang), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111 (C), pp. 38-58. 

1. 1. 1. 32.  Promoting Cooperation in Nonlinear Social Dilemmas through Peer-punishment (with Tim Cason), Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(1), pp. 66-88.

1. 1. 1. 33.  Selection, Tournaments, and Dishonesty (with Marco Faravelli and Lana Friesen), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 110(C), pp. 160-175. 

1. 1. 1. 34.  Swords without Covenants do not lead to Self-Governance (with Tim Cason), Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2016, 28(1), pp. 44-73. 

1. 1. 1. 35.  Letting the Briber go Free: An Experiment on Mitigating Harassment Bribes. (with Klaus Abbink, Utteeyo Dasgupta and Tarun Jain), Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 111, pp. 17-28.

1. 1. 1. 36.  Designing Self-reporting Regimes to Encourage Truth Telling: An Experimental Study (with Lana Friesen), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 94, pp.  90-102.

1. 1. 1. 37.  Environmental markets: What do we learn from the lab? (with Lana Friesen),  Journal of Economic Surveys. 2013, 27(3), pp. 515-535.

1. 1. 1. 38.  Little Emperors: Behavioural Impacts of China’s One-Child Policy (with Lisa Cameron, Nisvan Erkal and Xin Meng), Science. 22 February 2013, 339(6122), pp. 953-957. 

1. 1. 1. 39.  Little Emperors Pose Behavioral Challenges, (with Lisa Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, and Xin Meng), Science 19 April 2013, 340(6130), pp. 272-273. (Comment).

1. 1. 1. 40.  Must Positive Discrimination be Permanent: The Impact of Affirmative Action Programs on Workers’ Skill Acquisition? (with Nick Feltovich and Michael Kidd), Canadian Public Policy. 2013, 39, pp. 123-140.

1. 1. 1. 41.  Empowering Neighbors versus Imposing Regulations: An Experimental Analysis of Pollution Reduction Schemes (with Tim Cason),  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.2013, 65, pp. 469-484.

1. 1. 1. 42.  Cooperation Spillovers and Price Competition in Experimental Markets (with Tim Cason), Economic Inquiry. July 2013, 51(3), pp. 1715-1730.

1. 1. 1. 43.  Individual Level Evidence of Dishonesty and the Gender Effect (with Lana Friesen), Economics Letters. 2012, 117(3), pp. 624-626.

1. 1. 1. 44.  Stars and Standards: Energy Efficiency in Rental Markets (with Ingrid Burfurd and Veronika Nemes), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 2012, 64, pp.153-168.

1. 1. 1. 45.  Do Security-Differentiated Water Rights Improve the Performance of Water Markets? (with Marianne Lefebvre and Sophie Thoyer), American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 2012, 94 (5), pp. 1113-1135.

1. 1. 1. 46.  Moral Hazard and Peer Monitoring in a Laboratory Microfinance Experiment. (with Tim Cason and Pushkar Maitra),  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 2012, 82, pp. 192-209.

1. 1. 1. 47.  Price Discovery and Intermediation in Linked Emissions Markets: A Laboratory Study (with Tim Cason), Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, 1424-1433.

1. 1. 1. 48.  Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment (with Nisvan Erkal and Nikos Nikiforakis), American Economic Review, 2011, 101(7): 3330–48. 

1. 1. 1. 49.  Can Real-Effort Investments Inhibit the Convergence of Experimental Markets? (with Tim Cason and Nikos Nikiforakis), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2011, 29, 97-103. 

1. 1. 1. 50.  Does the Size of the Action Set Matter for Cooperation? (with Nikos Nikiforakis), Economics Letters, 2009, 104, 115-117. 

1. 1. 1. 51.  Propensities to Engage in and Punish Corrupt Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Australia, India, Indonesia and Singapore, (with Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri and Nisvan Erkal), Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93(7-8), 843-851. 

1. 1. 1. 52.  Subject Pool Effects in a Corruption Experiment: A Comparison of Indonesian Public Servants and Indonesian Students. (with Vivi Alatas, Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri and Nisvan Erkal), Experimental Economics, 2009, 12 (1), 113-132. 

1. 1. 1. 53.  Gender, Culture and Corruption: Insights from an Experimental Analysis. (with Vivi Alatas, Lisa Cameron, Ananish Chaudhuri and Nisvan Erkal), Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 75(3). 663-680.

1. 1. 1. 54.  Experimental Analysis of Risk and Uncertainty in Provisioning Private and Public Goods, (with Veronika Nemes),  Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47(1), 146-164.

1. 1. 1. 55.  Salinity in Water Markets: An Experimental Investigation of the Sunraysia Salinity Levy, Victoria (with Charlotte Duke), Ecological Economics, 2008, 68(1-2), 486-503.

1. 1. 1. 56.  An Experimental Analysis of Trust and Trustworthiness (with Ananish Chaudhuri), Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 73(4), 959-985.

1. 1. 1. 57. Environmental Compliance by Firms in the Manufacturing Sector in Mexico, Ecological Economics, 2006, 59(4), 477-486. 

1. 1. 1. 58.  An Experimental Study of Compliance and Leverage in Auditing and Regulatory Enforcement (with Tim Cason), Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44(2), 352-366. 

1. 1. 1. 59.  Emissions Variability in Tradable Permit Markets with Imperfect Enforcement and Banking (with Tim Cason), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 61, 199-216.

1. 1. 1. 60.  A Laboratory Comparison of Uniform and Discriminative Price Auctions for Reducing Non-Point Source Pollution (with Tim Cason), Land Economics, 2005 81(1), Pages 51 – 70.

1. 1. 1. 61.  Auction Design for Voluntary Conservation Programs (with Tim Cason), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004, 86(5), Pages 1211-1217.

1. 1. 1. 62.  Analysis of Prices in Tradable Emission Markets: An Empirical Study of the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market in Los Angeles, Applied Economics, 2004, 36(14), Pages 1569-1582.

1. 1. 1. 63.  Market Power in Tradable Emission Markets: A Laboratory Testbed for Emission Trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria (with Tim Cason and Charlotte Duke), Ecological Economics, 2003, 46, Pages 469-491. 

1. 1. 1. 64.  A Laboratory Study of Auctions for reducing Non-Point Source Pollution (with Tim Cason and Charlotte Duke), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2003, 46(3), Pages 446-471. 

1. 1. 1. 65.  Testing for Son Preference in South Africa (with Pushkar Maitra), Journal of African Economies, 2003, 12(3): 371-416. 

1. 1. 1. 66.  Transactions Costs in Tradable Permit Markets: An Experimental Study of Pollution Market Designs (with Tim Cason), Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2003, 23: 2, Pages 145-165. 

1. 1. 1. 67.  Comparing Travel Cost Models and the Precision of their Consumer Surplus Estimates: Albert Park and Maroondah Reservoir (with Nicola Lansdell), Australian Economic Papers, 2003, 42(4), Pages 399-417. 

1. 1. 1. 68.  The Effect of Education on the Timing of Marriage and First Birth in Pakistan (with Pushkar Maitra), Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series 1(1), July 2003, pages 114 - 133. 

1. 1. 1. 69.  Environmental Labeling and Incomplete Consumer Information in Laboratory Markets (with Tim Cason), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, January 2002, 43(1), Pages 113-134. 

1. 1. 1. 70.  Compliance in Environmental Markets, Applied Economics Letters, 2001, 8, Pages 641-644. 

1. 1. 1. 71.  Interrelationships between Income, Health and the Environment: Extending the EKC Hypothesis (with Rebecca Valenzuela), Ecological Economics, February 2001, 36(3), Pages 513-531. 

1. 1. 1. 72.  Two Aspects of Fertility Behaviour in South Africa (with Pushkar Maitra), Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2001. 50(1), pp. 183-199. 

1. 1. 1. 73.  Does Child Mortality reflect Gender Bias: Evidence from Pakistan (with Pushkar Maitra), Indian Economic Review, 2000, XXXV (2), Pages 113-131. 

1. 1. 1. 74.  Transaction Costs in Pollution Markets: An Empirical Study, Land Economics, 76(4), November 2000. 

1. 1. 1. 75.  An Experimental Study of Electronic Bulletin Board Trading for Emission Permits (with Tim Cason), Journal of Regulatory Economics, 14:55-73, 1998.  

B.     Book Chapters (Refereed)

•  Chapter titled: The Gender Leadership Gap: Insights from Experiments (with Catherine Eckel, Philip J. Grossman and Nina Xue), in Research Agenda in Experimental Economics, Chaudhuri, A (Ed.) Elgar Research Agenda Series, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021

•   Chapter titled: Complying with Environmental Regulations: Experimental Evidence (with Tim Cason and Lana Friesen), in Research Agenda in Experimental Economics, Chaudhuri, A (Ed.) Elgar Research Agenda Series, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2021

• • •  Chapter titled: Antisocial Behaviour in the Workplace (with Philip J. Grossman and Joe Vecci), in The Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, forthcoming, Klaus. F. Zimmermann, (Ed), 2020.

• • •   Chapter titled: Investment Decisions and Emissions Reductions: Experimental Results in Emissions Permit Trading (with A. Farrell and R. Croson), in The Handbook of Experimental Economics and the Environment, Michael Price and John List, (Eds), 2013, pp. 233-264.

• • • •   Chapter titled: Kuznets Curve (with Lisa Cameron and Sowmiya Ashok), in Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics, Mark. Blaug and Peter. Lloyd (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010, pp. 439-446

• • • •   Chapter titled: A Testbed Experiment for Water and Salinity Rights Trading in Irrigation Regions of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia, (with T. Cason, and C. Duke), in Experimental Methods, Environmental Economics, Todd. L. Cherry, Stephan Kroll and Jason Shogren, (Eds), Routledge, UK, 2008. pp. 77-99.

• • • •  Chapter titled: Growth and the Environment (with Pushkar Maitra, Monash University) in UNESCO-EOLSS Encyclopedia on Trade and Sustainable Development, Pasquale Sgro, (Ed), UNESCO.

• • •  Chapter titled: The Property Rights Paradigm and the Nature of Institutional and Market Interconnections driving the Global Dispersal of Environmental Damage (joint with Pushkar Maitra, Monash University) in UNESCO-EOLSS Encyclopedia on Trade and Sustainable Development, Pasquale Sgro, (Ed), UNESCO.

      C.     Book Reviews

•   “Markets for Clean Air”, by Ellerman, Joskow, Schmalensee, Montero, and Bailey for Economic Record, Volume 82, No: 257, Pages: 227-229, June 2006.

•    “Natural Resource and Environmental Economics”, by Roger Perman, Yue Ma, James McGilvray and Michael Common for Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Volume 45: 3, Pages: 498-500, September 2001.

•     “Advanced Principles In Environmental Policy”, by Anastasios Xepapadeas for Economic Record, Volume 74, No: 226, September 1998

D.    Other Research Output

• Citizens’ Trust in Local Politicians and Implications for Good Governance, (joint with Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci), Ideas for India, June 2015.

• Women Leaders and Deceptive Behaviour, (joint with Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci), Ideas for India, January 2015.

• Impact of Elite Capture on the Provision of Public Services, (joint with Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra and Joe Vecci), Ideas for India, December 2014.

• Choosing to be Trained: Behavioural Restrictions on Participation Decisions, (joint with Utteeyo Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani and Samyukta Subramanian), Ideas for India, September 2013.

• Pro-social Behavior, Local Leaders and Access to Social Welfare Programs (with Pushkar Maitra, Tarun Jain and Joe Vecci). Working Paper, 2016.

• A Market for Illegal Competition: Theory and Experimental Analysis (with Dyuti Banerjee and Pushkar Maitra). Working Paper, 2016.

• Regulation in Environmental Markets: What can we Learn from Experiments to Reduce Salinity? (joint with Charlotte Duke), Australian Economic Review, For the Student, 38(4), 2005.

• Policies to Mitigate Global Climate Change, Environmental Quarterly, Newsletter of the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, December Issue, 2000.

• Tradable Permits in Pollution Markets, Econochat, Newsletter of the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Issue 11: 11-13, January 1999.

• An Assessment of Southern California’s Experiment in Emissions Credit Trading (joint with Tim Cason), A publication of the Southern California Studies Center, University of Southern California, 1996.