The paper analyzes the problems of inflation finance in economies in transition from plan to market, when there are complications due to the use of money creation to finance credit to productive enterprises.

Using several independent data sets, we investigate the relationship between gender and corruption. We show using micro data that women are less involved in bribery, and are less likely to condone bribe taking. Cross-country data show that corruption is less severe where women hold a larger...

This paper is based on a case-study of a community of potters in rural Karnataka in Souther India. It focuses on wife-beating and how it affects caloric allocations within the family using statistical and ethnographic methods. The paper shows that wife-beating is significantly associated with...

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) interventions reduce the cumulative probability of transmission from a HIV positive woman to her child by as much as 40 percentage points. This paper is the first economic analysis of the behavioral effects of PMTCT. I examine fertility...

This paper is an exploratory analysis of the role that banks play in supporting what Jevons called the mechanism of exchange. It considers a model economy in which exchange activities are facilitated and coordinated by a self-organizing network of entrepreneurial trading firms. Collectively,...