Research

Current Research

• Marry for What? Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
  Maitreesh Ghatak (with Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, Esther Duflo, MIT and Jeanne Lafortune, Maryland)
  
  
• Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure
  Madhav Aney and Maitreesh Ghatak (with Massimo Morelli, Columbia)
  
  
• Blissful Ignorance? Effect of Individual Feedback on Performance
  Oriana Bandiera and Valentino Larcinese (with Imran Rasul, UCL)
  
  
• Heterogeneous Class Size Effect: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
  Oriana Bandiera and Valentino Larcinese (with Imran Rasul, UCL)
  
  
• Social Incentives in the Workplace
  Oriana Bandiera (with Iwan Barankay, Warwick and Imran Rasul, UCL)
  
  
• Endogenous Communication in Complex Organizations
  Andrea Prat (with Antoni Calvó-Armengol, Barcelona and Joan de Martí, Pompeu Fabra)
  
  
• State Capacity, Conflict and Development
  Tim Besley (with Torsten Persson, IIES)
  
  
• Accountability and Incentives: The Impact of Different Regimes on Hospital Waiting Times in England and Wales
  Tim Besley and Konrad Buchardi (with Gwyn Bevan, LSE)
  
  
• The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
  Tim Besley (with Torsten Persson, IIES)
  
  
• Contract Structure, Risk Sharing and Investment Choice
  Greg Fisher
  
  
• An Evaluation of Tax Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries
  Henrik Kleven (with Herwig Immervoll, Essex, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Copenhagen and Nicolaj Verdelin, Copenhagen)
  
  
• Transfer Program Complexity and Take-up of Social Benefits
  Henrik Kleven (with Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia)
  
  
• The Optimal Income Taxation of Couples as a Multi-dimensional Screening Problem
  Henrik Kleven (with Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Copenhagen and Emmanuel Saez, Berkeley)
  
  
• Creating Collateral: The de Soto Effect and the Political Economy of Legal Reform
  Timothy Besley and Maitreesh Ghatak
  
  
• Expanding Opportunity? The Ultra-Poor Program in Bangladesh
  Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess and Selim Gulesci (with Imran Rasul)
  
  
• Cimate Change and Death in India
  Robin Burgess and Dave Donaldson (with Michael Greenstone, MIT)
  
  
• The Political Economy of Deforestation in Indonesia
  Robin Burgess and Stephanie Sieber (with Benjamin Olken, NBER)
  
  
• Household External Finance and Consumption
  Tim Besley (with Neil Meads and Paolo Surico, Bank of England)
  
  
• Are Public Sector CEOs Different? Leadership Wages and Performance in Schools
  Tim Besley (with Stephen Machin, UCL)
  
  
• The Price Impact of Institutional Herding
  Andrea Prat (with Amil Dasgupta, LSE and Michela Verardo, LSE)
  
  
• Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step
  Andrea Prat (with François Ortalo-Magné, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  
  
• A Characteristics Approach to Optimal Taxation and Tax-Driven Product Innovation
  Henrik Kleven (with Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan)
  
  
• Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
  Gerard Padro i-Miquel (with Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University)
  
  
• The Rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa
  Gerard Padro i-Miquel (with Erik Meyersson, Stockholm University and Nancy Qian, Brown University)
  
  
• Foreign Influence and Welfare
  Gerard Padro i-Miquel (with Pol Antràs, Harvard University)
  
  
• Human Capital, Financial capital, and the Economic Empowerment of Female Adolescents: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Uganda and Tanzania
  Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess and Selim Gulesci (with Markus Goldstein, World Bank and Imran Rasul, UCL)
• A Sustainable Transition: Food Aid and Income Generation in South Sudan
  Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess and Selim Gulesci (with Imran Rasul, UCL)