Standout Papers
- Introduction: Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets—Puzzles and Policy Perspectives (1990)
- Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market (1997)
- Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market (1998)
- The Economics of Rural Organization (1995)
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Works of Karla Hoff being referenced
Introduction: Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets—Puzzles and Policy Perspectives
1990 StandoutNobel
Introduction: Tastes, Castes and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
2011
Spite and Development
2008
Opportunity is not everything
2005
Market Failures and the Distribution of Wealth: A Perspective from the Economics of Information
1996
The second theorem of the second best
1994
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The influence of society on preferences
2011
Making up people—The effect of identity on performance in a modernizing society
2013
The Kin System as a Poverty Trap?
2005
Belief Systems and Durable Inequalities: An Experimental Investigation of Indian Caste
2004
Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market
1997 StandoutNobel
Moneylenders and bankers: price-increasing subsidies in a monopolistically competitive market
1998 StandoutNobel
Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities
2006
Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
2010 Nobel
Bayesian learning in an infant industry model
1997
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
2011
Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
2009
Exiting a Lawless State
2008 Nobel
After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies
2004 Nobel
The Economics of Rural Organization
1995 StandoutNobel
A reexamination of the neoclassical trade model under uncertainty
1994
Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
2011
Land Taxes, Output Taxes, and Sharecropping Was Henry George Right?
1991