Working Papers

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A New Approach For Evaluating Economic Forecasts

This paper presents a new approach to evaluating multiple economic forecasts. In the past, evaluations have focused on the forecasts of individual variables....

Leverage and Asset Prices: An Experiment

This is the rst paper to test the asset pricing implication of leverage in a laboratory. We show that as theory predicts, leverage increases asset prices:

The Regressive Demands of Demand-Driven Development

Despite their explicit focus on reaching the poor, many community driven development (CDD) projects have been found to be only mildly pro-poor in their funding....

Addicted to Oil: Implications for Climate Change Policy

This paper applies a behavioral economics model of cigarette addiction to the issue of oil usage and climate change. Both problems involve consumption of a...

Human Recognition among HIV-Infected Adults: Empirical Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Kenya

This paper introduces the concept of human recognition, defined as the extent to which an individual is acknowledged by other individuals, groups, or organizations...

Trust and Trustworthiness in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Experimental Evidence from the 2010 Chilean Earthquake

Peoples’ behavior in the aftermath of natural disasters may depend critically on various conditions. In this paper we postulate three conditions, likely to.......pub

Human Recognition in Economic Development: A Theoretical Model

Abstract: This paper presents a model of human recognition, a concept defined as the acknowledgement provided to an individual that he is of inherent value with ......

Human Recognition and its Role in Economic Development: A Descriptive Review

This paper introduces the concept of human recognition, defined as the extent to which an individual is acknowledged by others to be of inherent value by virtue of....

Measurement of Human Recognition: A Methodology with Empirical Applications in India and Kenya

This paper develops and applies a methodology for measuring human recognition, which is defined as the acknowledgement provided to an individual by other.......