1998
Sources of Inefficiency in a Representative Democracy: A Dynamic Analysis, (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review, 1998. American Economic Association. Volume 88 (1), pp. 139-156.
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1997
An Economic Model of Representative Democracy, (with Stephen Coate), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997. Volume 108(1), pp. 85-114.
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1995
Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Political Economy, 1995, Volume 103 (5), pp. 903-937.
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Does Electoral Accountability Affect Economic Policy Choices? Evidence from Gubernatorial Term Limits (with Anne Case), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1995. Volume 110 (3), pp. 769-798.
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The Design of Income Maintenance Programs (with Stephen Coate), Review of Economic Studies, April 1995. Volume 62 (2), pp. 187-221.
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Incumbent Behavior: Vote Seeking, Tax Setting and Yardstick Competition (with Anne Case), American Economic Review, March 1995. Volume 85 (1), pp. 25-45.
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1994
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, Credit Markets and Efficiency (with Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury), Review of Economic Studies, October 1994. Volume 61 (4), pp. 701-719.
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Thy Neighbor's Keeper: The Design of a Credit Cooperative with Theory and a Test (with Abhijit Banerjee and Timothy Guinnane), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1994. Volume 109 (2), pp. 491-515.
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1993
Political Institutions and Policy Choices: Evidence from the United States (with Anne Case) Journal of Economic Literature, March 1993. Volume 41(1), pp. 7-73.
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The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (with Stephen Coate and Glenn Loury), American Economic Review, American Economic Association. Volume 83 (4), pp. 792-810.
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1992
Workfare versus Welfare: Incentive Arguments for Work Requirements in Poverty Alleviation Programs (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review, American Economic Association, March 1992. Volume 82 (1), pp. 249- 261.
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1991
Decentralizing Public Good Supply (with Ian Jewitt), Econometrica, Econometric Society, November 1991. Volume 59 (6), pp. 1769- 1777.
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Public Provision of Private Goods and the Redistribution of Income (with Stephen Coate), American Economic Review, American Economic Association, September 1991. Volume 81 (4), pp. 979-984. Technical Material
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