We analyse an experimental public goods game in which group members can endogenously determine whether they want to supplement a standard voluntary contribution mechanism with the possibility of rewarding or punishing other group members. We find a large and positive effect of endogenous...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the effects on fertility of seven economic policy experiments using the bachue demographic-economic model for the Philippines - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References and statistical tables.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the decentralization of planning in India - discusses objectives, institutional framework, resource allocation, administrative aspects, co-ordination between local level and national planning, etc., includes case studies of rural development and rural employment...

Direct democracy with its use of referenda avoids the prototypical principal-agent problems of delegation in indirect democracies, especially since elected representatives are usually not committed by law to keep their promises. Sequential or more complex referenda may, however, result in an...