Alessandra Cassar

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alessandra Cassar is a scholar working on Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Cassar has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Safety Research, 15 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Cassar's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (19 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (10 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers). Alessandra Cassar is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (19 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (10 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers). Alessandra Cassar collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Alessandra Cassar's co-authors include Andrew Healy, Pauline Grosjean, Bruce Wydick, Sam Whitt, Joseph Henrich, Julie Chytilová, Michal Bauer, Daniel Friedman, Y. Jane Zhang and Giovanna D’Adda and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Science and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Cassar

32 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Trust, Risk, and Time Preferences After a Natural Disaster: Experimental Evidence from Thailand

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Michal Bauer Czechia

Julie Chytilová Czechia

Anke Becker Germany

Benjamin Enke United States

Lisa R. Anderson United States

Noel D. Johnson United States

Erik Wengström Sweden

Eric D. Gould Israel

Lori Beaman United States

Marco Casari Italy

Michal Bauer Czechia

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandra Cassar

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Cassar, Alessandra, et al.. (2023). Mothers, fathers, and others: Competition and cooperation in the aftermath of conflict. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 215. 207–223. 3 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, et al.. (2023). It Makes a Village: Allomaternal Care and Prosociality. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Y. Jane Zhang. (2022). The competitive woman: Evolutionary insights and cross-cultural evidence into finding the Femina Economica. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 197. 447–471. 4 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Mary L. Rigdon. (2022). Sustaining the potential for cooperation as female competitive strategy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1868). 9 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Mary L. Rigdon. (2021). Option to cooperate increases women's competitiveness and closes the gender gap. Evolution and Human Behavior. 42(6). 556–572. 6 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, et al.. (2019). Raising achievement among microentrepreneurs: An experimental test of goals, incentives, and support groups in Medellin, Colombia. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 161. 79–97. 4 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, et al.. (2017). Financial exclusion in developed countries: a field experiment among migrants and low-income people in Italy. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 5 indexed citations

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Bauer, Michal, Alessandra Cassar, Julie Chytilová, & Joseph Henrich. (2013). War’s Enduring Effects on the Development of Egalitarian Motivations and In-Group Biases. Psychological Science. 25(1). 47–57. 197 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, et al.. (2013). Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard in Joint-Liability Loan Contracts: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 9(2). 153–184. 5 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Bruce Wydick. (2012). Credit Rationing with Behavioral Foundations: Revisiting Stiglitz and Weiss. USF Scholarship Repository (University of San Francisco). 15(7). 400–1. 1 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Pauline Grosjean. (2012). Institutional Quality, Culture and Norms of Cooperation Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo. 2 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, Pauline Grosjean, & Sam Whitt. (2011). Civil War, Social Capital and Market Development: Experimental and Survey Evidence on the Negative Consequences of Violence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 16 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, Pauline Grosjean, & Sam Whitt. (2011). Civil War, Social Capital and Market Development: Experimental and Survey Evidence on the Negative Consequences of Violence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Mary L. Rigdon. (2010). Trust and trustworthiness in networked exchange. Games and Economic Behavior. 71(2). 282–303. 1 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, Daniel Friedman, & Patricia Schneider. (2010). A Laboratory Investigation of Networked Markets. The Economic Journal. 120(547). 919–943. 8 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra, et al.. (2007). The Effect of Social Capital on Group Loan Repayment: Evidence from Field Experiments. The Economic Journal. 117(517). F85–F106. 185 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Rosella Nicolini. (2007). Spillovers and growth in a local interaction model. The Annals of Regional Science. 42(2). 291–306. 4 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra. (2006). Coordination and cooperation in local, random and small world networks: Experimental evidence. Games and Economic Behavior. 58(2). 209–230. 142 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra & Dan Friedman. (2004). Economics Lab. 5 indexed citations

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Cassar, Alessandra. (2002). Coordination and Cooperation in Local, Random and Small World Networks: Experimental Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 30 indexed citations

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