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Striving for balance in economics: Towards a theory of the social determination of behavior by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

“…•Standard economics leaves out of account key social influences on preferences and cognition.•Individuals are “enculturated actors,” not rational or…”
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Making up people—The effect of identity on performance in a modernizing society by Hoff, Karla, Pandey, Priyanka

“…It is typically assumed that being hard-working or clever is a trait of the person, in the sense that it is always there, in a fixed manner. However, in an…”
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Introduction: Tastes, Castes and Culture: the Influence of Society on Preferences by Fehr, Ernst, Hoff, Karla

“…Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people…”
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Caste and Punishment: the Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement by Hoff, Karla, Kshetramade, Mayuresh, Fehr, Ernst

“…Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism. We study how the assignment to the top or bottom of the caste system affects the…”
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The Whys of Social Exclusion: Insights from Behavioral Economics by Hoff, Karla, Walsh, James

“…All over the world, people are prevented from participating fully in society through mechanisms that go beyond the structural and institutional barriers that…”
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Spite and Development by Fehr, Ernst, Hoff, Karla, Kshetramade, Mayuresh

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Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities by Hoff, Karla, Pandey, Priyanka

“…What are the mechanisms by which societal discrimination affects individual achievement, and why do the effects of past discrimination endure once legal…”
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After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

“…In recent years economists have increasingly been concerned with understanding the creation of the rules of the game - in the broad sense of political economy…”
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Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

“…Recently, economic theorists have investigated the construction of ideologies. They have modeled individuals as trading off the benefits of subscribing to a…”
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Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation by Hoff, Karla, Sen, Arijit

“…We show that individuals with identical preferences and abilities can self-organize into communities with starkly different civic environments. Specifically,…”
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Exiting a Lawless State by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

“…An earlier paper showed that an economy could be trapped in an equilibrium state in which the absence of the rule of law led to asset-stripping and the…”
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TURNOVER IN POWER AS A RESTRAINT ON INVESTING IN INFLUENCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSITION by MILANOVIC, BRANKO, HOFF, KARLA, HOROWITZ, SHALE

“…We develop and implement a method for measuring the frequency of changes in power among distinct leaders and ideologically distinct parties that is comparable…”
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Paths of Institutional Development: A View from Economic History by Hoff, Karla

“…This article surveys an influential new research program on historical paths of institutional development and their consequences for growth. The research…”
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Twenty-first century insights into economic development: cultural roots of cognition by Demeritt, Allison, Hoff, Karla

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Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

“…In many areas of the world, a significant part of the cost of obtaining a good or service is the cost of enforcing the contracts entailed in its provision. We…”
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Introduction: Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets—Puzzles and Policy Perspectives by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

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Bayesian learning in an infant industry model by Hoff, Karla

“…Most analyses of the infant industry argument assume that production early on benefits subsequent production in deterministic fashion. This paper presents an…”
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The Whys of Social Exclusion by Hoff, Karla, Walsh, James

“…All over the world, people are prevented from participating fully in society through mechanisms that go beyond the structural and institutional barriers that…”
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Cultural impediments to learning to cooperate: An experimental study of high- and low-caste men in rural India by Brooks, Benjamin A., Hoff, Karla, Pandey, Priyanka

“…We report experimental findings on how individuals from different cultures solve a repeated coordination game of common interest. The results overturn earlier…”
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Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market by Hoff, Karla, Stiglitz, Joseph E.

“…In many areas of the world, a significant part of the cost of obtaining a good or service is the cost of enforcing the contracts entailed in its provision. We…”
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