American Economic Review, July 2021

Can increasing control over earnings incentivize a woman to work, and thereby influence norms around gender roles? We randomly varied whether rural Indian women received bank accounts, training in account use, and direct ...

Journal of International Economics, July 2021

This paper quantifies the size of internal versus external trade barriers and assesses the trade and welfare impact. I develop a quantitative two-sector international trade model featuring nonhomothetic preferences in which..

Energy Economics, July 2021

Many studies address the convergence in per capita CO2 emissions. However, whether countries with lower initial per capita emission levels can "catch up" with more emission-intensive countries is unknown. Utilising historical CO2...

International Journal of Production Economics, July 2021

Previous research into the upstream supply chain governance mechanisms that focal firms use with suppliers to improve their ethical performance and reputation is incipient. The original contribution includes the development..

Research Policy, July 2021

Mobile payment technology continues to spread across the globe, but its diffusion has not been uniform. Its low usage in developing economies is of particular concern to policymakers since this technology has the potential...

World Development, July 2021

Identity is an important determinant of economic behavior. While the existing literature focuses on one identity dimension at a time, we show that the multiplicity of identity dimensions matters for economic behavior and that neglecting...