Working Papers
Working papers (WP) published by the Dyson School are journal-article-length research papers. They are used to share research results in a timely fashion and garner input from professional peers prior to anticipated publication in professional journals.
2019
| No. | Title | Author |
| 19-01 | Minimum Wages and Labor Supply in an Emerging Market: The Case of Mauritius | Asmal, Bhorat, Kanbur, Ranzani, Paci |
| 19-03 | Inequality in a Global Perspective | Kanbur |
| 19-04 | Village in the City: Residential Segregation in Urbanizing India | Bharathi, Malghan, Rahman |
| 19-05 | A Narrative on Two Weaknesses of the Tri for Research Purposes | Khanna |
| 19-06 | Management and Leadership Succession Lessons Learned from Large Farm Businesses in Former East Germany |
Staehr |
| 19-07 | Promoting Education Under Distortionary Taxation: Equality of Opportunity Versus Welfarism | Haaparanta, Kanbur, Paukkeri, Pirttila, Tuomala |
2018
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 18-01 | Political Activism as a Determinant of Clientelistic Transfers: Evidence from an Indian Public Works Program | Chau, Liu, Soundararajan |
| 18-02 | Gunnar Myrdal and Asian Drama in Context | Kanbur |
| 18-03 | On the Volume of Redistribution: Across Income Levels and Across Groups | Kanbur |
| 18-04 | Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality | Chau, Kanbur |
| 18-05 | Exploring the Feasibility of Rural Broadband Cooperatives: The NEW New Deal? | Schmit, Severson |
| 18-06 | The Compatibility of Farmland Sales and Opinion Survey Data | Bigelow, Ifft, Kuethe |
| 18-07 | Spatial Segregation, Multi-scale Diversity, and Public Goods | Bharathi, Malghan, Mishra, Rahman |
| 18-08 | Isolated by Caste: Neighbourhood-Scale Residential Segregation in Indian Metros | Bharathi, Malghan, Rahman |
| 18-09 | Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty | Hufe, Kanbur, Peichl |
| 18-10 | Inequality and the Openness of Borders | Kanbur |
| 18-11 | Migrants, Towns, Poverty and Jobs: Insights from Tanzania | Christiaensen, De Weerdt, Ingelaere, Kanbur |
| 18-12 | More Heat than Light: Census-scale Evidence for the Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Economic Development as a Statistical Artifact | Bharathi, Malghan, Rahman |
| 18-13 | Sustainable Development Goals and Measurement of Economic and Social Progress | Kanbur, Patel, Stiglitz |
| 18-14 | Commercialization of a Demand-Enhancing Innovation by a Public University | Akhundjanov, Gallardo, McCluskey, Rickard |
| 18-15 | The Past, Present and Future of Economic Development | Chau, Kanbur |
| 18-16 | Public Goods, and Nested Subnational Units: Diversity, Segregation, or Hierarchy? | Bharathi, Malghan, Mishra, Rahman |
2017
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 17-01 | Structural Transformation and Income Distribution: Kuznets and Beyond | Kanbur |
| 17-02 | Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda | Christiaensen, Kanbur |
| 17-03 | An Evaluation of the Feedback Loops in the Poverty Focus of World Bank Operations | Fardoust, Kanbur, Luo, Sundberg |
| 17-04 | A Systems Approach to Carbon Policy for Fruit supply Chains: Carbon-Tax, Innovation in Storage Technologies or Land-sparing? | Alkhannan, Lee, Gomez, Gao |
| 17-05 | A Supply Chain Impacts of Vegetable Demand Growth: The Case of Cabbage in the U.S. | Yeh, Nishi, Gómez |
| 17-06 | The Great Chinese Inequality Turn Around | Kanbur, Wang, Zhang |
| 17-07 | Inequality Indices as Tests of Fairness | Kanbur, Snell |
| 17-08 | Farmer Productivity by Age Over Eight U.S. Census Years | Tauer |
| 17-09 | Sub-Saharan Africa’s Manufacturing Sector: Building Complexity | Bhorat, Kanbur, Rooney, Steenkamp |
| 17-10 | What is the World Bank Good For? Global Public Good and Global Institutions | Kanbur |
| 17-11 | The Digital Revolution and Targeting Public Expenditure for Poverty Reduction | Kanbur |
| 17-12 | Citizenship, Migration and Opportunity | Kanbur |
| 17-13 | Why Secondary Towns Can Be Important for Poverty Reduction – A Migrant’s Perspective | Ingelaere, Christiaensen, De Weerdt, Kanbur |
| 17-14 | Too Much to Eat It All: How Package Size Impacts Food Waste | Petit, Lunardo, Rickard |
| 17-15 | Can Machine Learning Improve Prediction? An Application with Farm Survey Data | Ifft, Kuhns, Patrick |
2016
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 16-01 | Specification of Spatial-Dynamic Externalities and Implications for Strategic Behavior in Disease Control | Atallah, Gómez, Conrad |
| 16-02 | Of Consequentialism, its Critics, and the Critics of its Critics | Kanbur |
| 16-03 | Enforcement Matters: The Effective Regulation of Labor | Ronconi, Kanbur |
| 16-04 | Assessment of New York’s Pollution Discharge Elimination Permits for CAFO’s: A Regional Analysis | Enahoro, Schmit, Boisvert |
| 16-05 | Capability, Opportunity, Outcome—and Equality | Kanbur |
| 16-06 | W. Arthur Lewis and the Roots of Ghanaian Economic Policy | Kanbur |
| 16-07 | Economics and Economic Policy | Kanbur |
| 16-08 | Using Unobtrusive Sensors to Measure and Minimize Hawthorne Effects: Evidence from Cookstoves | Simons, Beltramo, Blalock, Levine |
| 16-09 | Capital Flows, Beliefs, and Capital Controls | Rarytska, Tsyrennikov |
| 16-10 | Anticipatory Signals of Changes in Corn Demand | Verteramo Chiu, Tomek |
| 16-11 | Intra-Household Inequality and Overall Inequality | Kanbur |
| 16-12 | Parents, Children, and Luck: Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Outcome | Kanbur |
| 16-13 | Rural Wealth Creation Impacts of Urban-based Local Food System Initiatives: A Delphi Method Examination of the Impacts on Intellectual Capital | Jablonski, Schmit, Minner, Kay |
| 16-14 | Demystifying RINs: A Partial Equilibrium Model of U.S. Biofuels Markets | Korting, Just |
| 16-15 | The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: Accounting for Time-invariant Unobservables in the Hedonic Approach | Ortiz-Bobea |
| 16-16 | Alternative Strategies to Manage Weather Risk in Perennial Fruit Crop Production | Ho, Ifft, Rickard, Turvey |
| 16-17 | Multiple Certifications and Consumer Purchase Decisions: A Case Study of Willingness to Pay for Coffee in Germany | Basu, Grote, Hicks, Stellmacher |
2015
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 15-01 | Rice Sector Policy Options in Guinea Bissau | Kyle |
| 15-02 | Does Federal Crop Insurance Lead to Higher Farm Debt Use? Evidence from the Agricultural Resource Management Survey | Ifft, Kuethe, Morehart |
| 15-03 | Assessing the Economic Impacts of Food Hubs to Regional Economies: A Framework Including Opportunity Cost | Jablonski, Schmit, Kay |
| 15-04 | The End of Laissez-Faire, the End of History, and the Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Kanbur |
| 15-05 | Dynastic Inequality, Mobility and Equality of Opportunity | Kanbur, Stiglitz |
| 15-06 | Education for Climate Justice | Kanbur |
| 15-07 | Food Waste: The Role of Date Labels, Package Size, and Product Category | Wilson, Rickard, Saputo, Ho |
| 15-08 | Management Areas and Fixed Costs in the Economics of Water Quality Trading | Zhao, Poe, Boisvert |
| 15-09 | Optimal Taxation and Public Provision for Poverty Reduction | Kanbur, Pirttilä, Tuomala, Ylinen |
| 15-10 | Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer | Bhorat, Kanbur, Stanwix |
| 15-11 | The Distinct Economic Effects of the Ethanol Blend Wall, RIN Prices and Ethanol Price Premium due to the RFS | de Gorter, Drabik |
| 15-12 | The Impact of Irrigation Restrictions on Cropland Values in Nebraska | Savage, Ifft |
2014
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 14-01 | Performance of Thailand Banks after the 1997 East Asian Financial Crisis | Mahathanaseth, Tauer |
| 14-02 | Mineral Revenues and Countercyclical Macroeconomic Policy in Kazakhstan | Kyle |
| 14-03 | Globalization and Inequality | Kanbur |
| 14-04 | Urbanization and Agglomeration Benefits: Gender Differentiated Impacts on Enterprise Creation in India’s Informal Sector | Ghani, Kanbur, O’Connell |
| 14-05 | Regulation and Non-Compliance: Magnitudes and Patterns for India’s Factories Act | Chatterjee, Kanbur |
| 14-06 | Mindsets, Trends, and the Informal Economy | Kanbur |
| 14-07 | The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges | Fan, Kanbur, Wei, Zhang |
| 14-08 | Economic Policy in South Africa: Past, Present, and Future | Bhorat, Hirsch, Kanbur, Ncube |
| 14-09 | Groupings and the Gains From Tagging | Kanbur, Tuomala |
| 14-10 | On the Political Economy of Guest Worker Programs in Agriculture | Rickard |
| 14-11 | Threshold, Informality, and Partitions of Compliance | Kanbur, Keen |
| 14-12 | Minimum Wage Effects at Different Enforcement Levels: Evidence from Employment Surveys in India | Soundararajan |
| 14-13 | Heterogeneous Firms and Informality: The Effects of Trade Liberalization on Labor Markets | Becker |
| 14-14 | Rising Inequality in Asia and Policy Implications | Zhuang, Kanbur, Rhee |
| 14-15 | ‘Local’ Producers’ Production Functions and Their Importance in Estimating Economic Impacts | Jablonski, Schmit |
| 14-16 | The Salience of Excise vs. Sales Taxes on Healthy Eating: An Experimental Study | Chen, Kaiser, Rickard |
| 14-17 | How Useful is Inequality of Opportunity as a Policy Construct? | Kanbur, Wagstaff |
| 14-18 | Informality: Cause, Consequences and Policy Responses | Kanbur |
| 14-19 | What is a “Meal”? Comparing Methods Of Auditing Carbon Offset Compliance for Fuel Efficient Cookstoves | Harrell, Beltramo, Blalock, Levine, Simons |
| 14-20 | Social Protection, Vulnerability and Poverty | Kanbur |
| 14-21 | Informality Among Multi-Product Firms | Becker |
2013
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 13-01 | Social Protection: Consensus and Challenges | Kanbur |
| 13-02 | Urbanization and (In)Formalization | Ghani, Kanbur |
| 13-03 | Exposure and Dialogue Programs in the Training of Development Analysts and Practitioners | Kanbur |
| 13-04 | The Impact of Sectoral Minimum Wage Laws on Employment, Wages, and Hours of Work in South Africa | Bhorat, Kanbur, Mayet |
| 13-05 | Estimating the Impact of Minimum Wages on Employment, Wages and Non-Wage Benefits: The Case of Agriculture in South Africa | Bhorat, Kanbur, Stanwix |
| 13-06 | Can a Country be a Donor and a Recipient of Aid? | Kanbur |
| 13-07 | Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory | Jäntti, Kanbur, Nyyssölä, Pirttilä |
| 13-08 | Urbanization and Inequality in Asia | Kanbur, Zhuang |
| 13-09 | The Evolution of Development Strategy as Balancing Market and Government Failure | Devarajan, Kanbur |
| 13-10 | Labor Law Violations in Chile | Kanbur, Ronconi, Wedenoja |
| 13-11 | An Agent-Based Computational Bioeconomic Model of Plant Disease Diffusion and Control: Grapevine Leafroll Disease | Atallah, Goméz, Conrad, Nyrop |
| 13-12 | Economic Inequality and Economic Development: Lessons and Implications of Global Experiences for the Arab World | Kanbur |
| 13-13 | The State of Development Thought | Currie-Alder, Kanbur, Malone, Medhora |
| 13-14 | Identifying Factors Influencing a Hospital’s Decision to Adopt a Farm-to-Hospital Program | Smith II, Kaiser, Gómez |
| 13-15 | The Operational Dimensions of Results-Based Financing | O’Brien, Kanbur |
| 13-16 | Impacts of Local Food System Activities by Small Direct-to-Consumer Producers in a Regional Economy: A Case Study From Upstate NY | Schmit, Jablonski, Mansury |
| 13-17 | Social Protection, Poverty, and the Post-2015 Agenda | Fiszbein, Kanbur, Yemtsov |
| 13-18 | How Important Was Marxism for the Development of Mozambique and Angola? | Kyle |
| 13-19 | University Licensing of Patents for Varietal Innovations in Agriculture | Rickard, Richards, Yan |
| 13-20 | What is a “Meal”? Comparing Methods to Determine Cooking Events | Harrell, Beltramo, Levine, Blalock, Simons |
2012
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 12-01 | Does Kuznets Still Matter? | Kanbur |
| 12-02 | Aid to the Poor in Middle Income Countries and the Future of IDA | Kanbur |
| 12-03 | Results Based Development Assistance: Perspectives from the South Asia Region of the World Bank | O’Brien, Fiszbein, Gelb, Kanbur, Newman |
| 12-04 | Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation In Rural China? | Chen, Kanbur, Zhang |
| 12-05 | Do Public Work Schemes Deter or Encourage Outmigration? Empirical Evidence from China | Chau, Kanbur, Qin |
| 12-06 | Informality: Concepts, Facts and Models | Sinha, Kanbur |
| 12-07 | The Angolan Economy-Diversification and Growth | Kyle |
| 12-08 | Creating Place for the Displaced: Migration and Urbanization in Asia | Beall, Guha-Khasnobis, Kanbur |
| 12-09 | Super-Additionality: A Neglected Force in Markets for Carbon Offsets | Bento, Kanbur, Leard |
| 12-10 | Consumer Valuation of Environmentally Friendly Production Practices in Wines Considering Asymmetric Information and Sensory Effects | Schmit, Rickard, Taber |
| 12-11 | An Estimate of Socioemotional Wealth in the Family Business | Dressler, Tauer |
| 12-12 | Shale Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania | Hill |
| 12-13 | The CORNELL-SEWA-WIEGO Exposure and Dialogue Programme: An Overview of the Process and Main Outcomes | Bali, Chen, Kanbur |
| 12-14 | Impact of the Fruit and Vegetable Planting Restriction on Crop Allocation in the United States | Balagtas, Krissoff, Lei, Rickard |
| 12-15 | Welfare Effects of Biofuel Policies in the Presence of Fuel and Labor Taxes | Cooper, Drabik |
| 12-16 | Economic and Nutritional Implications from Changes in U.S. Agricultural Promotion Efforts | Ho, Rickard, Liaukonyte |
2011
| No. | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 11-01 | The Hidden System Costs of Wind Generation in a Deregulated Electricity Market | Mount, Maneevitjit, Lamadrid, Zimmerman, Thomas |
| 11-02 | Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City | Rodgers, Beall, Kanbur |
| 11-03 | A Note on Measuring the Depth of Minimum Wage Violation | Bhorat, Kanbur, Mayet |
| 11-04 | Minimum Wage Violation in South Africa | Bhorat, Kanbur, Mayet |
| 11-05 | The Determinants of Minimum Wage Violation in South Africa | Bhorat, Kanbur, Mayet |
| 11-06 | Avoiding Informality Traps | Kanbur |
| 11-07 | The Economics of Africa | Aryeetey, Devarajan, Kanbur, Kasekende |
| 11-08 | Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty | Kanbur, Sumner |
| 11-09 | Integration of Stochastic Power Generation, Geographical Averaging, and Load Response | Lamadrid, Mount, Thomas |
| 11-10 | Implications of Agglomeration Economics and Market Access for Firm Growth in Food Manufacturing | Schmit, Hall |
| 11-11 | Revealing an Equitable Income Allocation among Dairy Farm Partnerships | Dressler, Tauer |
| 11-12 | How Have Agricultural Policies Influenced Caloric Consumption in the United States? Revised September 2011 | Rickard, Okrent, Alston |
| 11-13 | Organization, Poverty and Women: Andhra Pradesh in Global Perspective | Dev, Kanbur, Galab, Alivelu |
| 11-14 | Economic Impact of Grapevine Leafroll Disease on Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Franc in Finger Lakes Vineyards of New York | Atallah, Gómez, Fuchs, Martinson |
| 11-15 | Impacts of the End of the Coffee Export Quota System on International-to-Retail Price Transmission | Lee, Gómez |
| 11-16 | Does the Name Matter? Developing Brands for Patented Fruit Varieties | Rickard, Schmit, Gómez, Lu |
| 11-18 | Urban Agglomeration Economies in the U.S. Greenhouse and Nursery Production | Cheng, Gómez, Bills |
| 11-19 | Factors Influencing Adoption of Integrated Pest Management in Northeast Greenhouse and Nursery Production | Li, Gómez, Rickard, Skinner |
| 11-20 | The Theory of Biofuel Policy and Food Grain Prices | Drabik |
| 11-21 | Meeting Multiple Policy Objectives Under GHG Emissions Reduction Targets | Boisvert, Blandford |
2010
| No. | Title | Author |
| 10-01 | Inclusive Development: Two Papers on Conceptualization, Application, and the ADB Perspective | Kanbur, Rauniyar |
| 10-02 | Ethnic Diversity and Ethnic Strife an Interdisciplinary Perspective | Kanbur, Rajaram, Varshney |
| 10-03 | China’s Regional Disparities: Experience and Policy | Fan, Kanbur, Zhang |
| 10-04 | Angola’s Macroeconomy and Agricultural Growth | Kyle |
| 10-05 | Carbon Dioxide Offsets from Anaerobic Digestion of Dairy Waste | Gloy |
| 10-06 | Developing Viable Farmers Markets in Rural Communities: An Investigation of Vendor Performance Using Objective and Subjective Valuations | Schmit, Gómez |
| 10-07 | Relativity, Inequality and Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation | Kanbur, Tuomala |
| 10-08 | Charitable Conservatism, Poverty Radicalism and Good Old Fashioned Inequality Aversion | Kanbur, Tuomala |
| 10-09 | Protecting the Poor Against the Next Crisis | Kanbur |
| 10-10 | Estimating the Influence of Ethanol Policy on Plant Investment Decisions: A Real Options Analysis with Two Stochastic Variables | Schmit, Luo, Conrad |
| 10-11 | Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion: The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowance | Chau, Zhang |
| 10-12 | Examining Consumer Response to Commodity-Specific and Broad-Based Promotion Programs for Fruits and Vegetables Using Experimental Economics | Rickard, Liaukonyte, Kaiser, Richards |
| 10-13 | Wine in Your Knapsack? | Conrad, Gómez, Lamadrid |
| 10-14 | The Cost of Increased Localization for a Multiple-Product Food Supply Chain: Dairy in the United States | Nicholson, Gómez, Gao |
| 10-15 | Food Stamps, Food Insufficiency and Health of the Elderly | Ranney, Gómez |
| 10-16 | Conceptualizing Social Security and Income Redistribution | Kanbur |
| 10-17 | Stress Testing for the Poverty Impacts of the Next Crisis | Kanbur |
| 10-18 | The Role of the World Bank in Middle Income Countries | Kanbur |
| 10-19 | Evaluating Advertising Strategies for Fruits and Vegetables and the Implications for Obesity in the United States | Liaukonyte, Rickard, Kaiser, Richards |
| 10-20 | Assessing the Utilization of and Barriers to Farm-to-Chef Marketing: An Empirical Assessment from Upstate NY | Schmit, Hadcock |
| 10-21 | How Important Are Sanitary and Phytosanitary Barriers in International Markets for Fresh Fruit? | Rickard, Lei |
| 10-22 | The Implications of Alternative Biofuel Policies on Carbon Leakage | Drabik, de Gorter, Just |