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Research
Current Research
Please follow the links below to look at some of the projects EOPP is currently undertaking:
- 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)
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