Chris Bidner

Working Papers

• "Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms", with Siwan Anderson [draft]

• "Marital Matching and the Distribution of Innate Ability", with John Knowles [draft]

• "Pay Gaps and Outside Wages: The U.S. Gender Wage Gap 1980-2010", with Ben Sand [draft, appendix]

• "A Theory of Minimalist Democracy", with Patrick Francois and Francesco Trebbi [draft]

Work in Progress

• "Harm and Harmony", with Siwan Anderson [slides]

• "Nation State Building", with Esmaeil Izadi [slides]

• "A Theory of Democratic Erosion", with Shirleen Manzur [slides]

• "Executive Constraints and State Resilience", with Matheus Bandeira [slides]

• "The Allocation of Political Power when Power Corrupts" [slides]

• "Internal Political Institutions and the Quality of Governance in Democracies", with Patrick Francois [slides]

• "A Theory of Obedience", with Zhifeng Sun [coming soon]

• "Family Structure and Gender Norms: Evidence from China", with Boxi Yang [coming soon]

• Anderson, S. & Bidner, C. (2023) 'An Institutional Perspective on the Economics of the Family' [draft]. Forthcoming in the Handbook of the Economics of the Family

• Anderson, S. & Bidner, C. (2022) 'Integrating economic and evolutionary approaches to polygynous marriage,' Evolutionary Human Sciences, Volume 4 , 2022 .

• Bidner, C., Roger, G. & Moses, J. (2016), ‘Investing in Skill and Searching for Coworkers: Endogenous Participation in a Matching Market’, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 8(1), 166-202. || Winner of the 2017 AEJ: Microeconomics Best Paper Award

• Anderson, S. & Bidner, C. (2015), ‘Property Rights over Marital Transfers’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 130(3), 1421-1484.

• Bidner, C. & Eswaran, M. (2015), ‘A gender-based theory of the origin of the caste system of India’, Journal of Development Economics 114, 142 - 158.

• Bidner, C. (2014), ‘A Spillover-Based Theory of Credentialism’, Canadian Journal of Economics 47(4).

• Bidner, C. & Francois, P. (2013), ‘The Emergence of Political Accountability’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(3), 1397-1448.

• Bidner, C. & Francois, P. (2011), ‘Cultivating Trust: Norms, Institutions and the Implications of Scale’, Economic Journal 121(555), 1097--1129.

• Bidner, C. (2010), ‘Pre-match Investment with Frictions’, Games and Economic Behavior 68(1), 23-34.