Centralized sanctioning institutions are of utmost importance for overcoming free-riding tendencies and enforcing … outcomes that maximize group welfare in social dilemma situations. However, little is known about how such institutions come … institutions in a public goods game. Our theoretical analysis shows that players may form sanctioning institutions in equilibrium …

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … cooperation (at the very least, to a secession of hostilities) when such groups are faced with the threat of potentially stronger …

Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian …

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved … effects in both the wage and the job tenure equation. We look into the correlation of the unobserved heterogeneity components … with each other. We find that high-wage workers tend to be low-tenure workers, i.e. higher unobserved ability seems to be …

the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure … in accounting for upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles; our findings strongly support the agency view. Our second area … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay …

for men. Finally, the works council wage premium is associated with longer job tenure. This suggests that some of the … premium is a noncompetitive rent, even if works council voice may dominate its distributive effects insofar as tenure is …