Kaushik Basu

Cornell University - Department of Economics

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414 Uris Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

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Harvard University - Harvard Institute of Economic Research

Department of Economics

200 Littauer Center

Cambridge, MA 02138

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1.

Punctuality: A Cultural Trait as Equilibrium

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 02-26
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Jun 2002
Kaushik Basu and Jorgen W. Weibull
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Boston University - Department of Economics
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Punctuality, coordination games, culture, norms

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Child Labor: Cause, Consequence, and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2027
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: An Economic Analysis with Implications for Worker Rights and Labor Standards Policy

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 02-11
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 Mar 2002
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Sexual Harassment, occupational safety, discrimination, labor standards

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Child Labor and the Law: Notes on Possible Pathologies

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2052
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 07 Dec 2004
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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child labor, law, labor standards,India

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Social Norms and the Law

The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, (Peter Newman, ed.), May 1998
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Dec 1997
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behavior with Endogenously-Determined Balance of Power

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2054
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Dec 2004
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Gender, Power, Household behavior, Female labor supply, Child labor

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Identity, Trust and Altruism: Sociological Clues to Economics Development

CAE Working Paper No. 06-05
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 11 Jan 2007
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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cooperation, trust, altruism, identity, development, Prisoner's Dilemma

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Is Literacy Shared within Households? Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 01-44
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Dec 2001
Kaushik Basu, Ambar Narayan and Martin Ravallion
Cornell University - Department of Economics, World Bank, Poverty Global Practice and Georgetown University
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Household behavior, literacy, externalities, earnings, Bangladesh

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The Economics and Law of Rent Control

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1968
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Dec 2004
Kaushik Basu and Patrick Munro Emerson
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Independent
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Efficiency Pricing, Tenancy Rent Control and Monopolistic Landlords

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 01-40
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 16 Nov 2001
Kaushik Basu and Patrick Munro Emerson
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Independent
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Rent Control, Rent Regulation, Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection, Monopoly.

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Consumer Cognition and Pricing in the 9's in Oligopolistic Markets

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2053
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Dec 2004
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Shared Prosperity and the Mitigation of Poverty: In Practice and in Precept

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6700
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Rural Poverty Reduction, Achieving Shared Growth, Services & Transfers to Poor, Economic Theory & Research, Inequality

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Teacher Truancy in India: The Role of Culture, Norms and Economic Incentives

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 14 Jan 2007
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Education, teachers, culture, incentives

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The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labor

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2173
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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minimum wage, child labour, unemployment

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International Credit and Welfare: A Paradoxical Theorem and its Policy Implications

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 02-18
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Mar 2005
Kaushik Basu and Hodaka Morita
Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of New South Wales - School of Economics
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Bank-firm interaction, foreign aid, international credit, welfare comparison

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Household Labor Supply, Unemployment, and Minimum Wage Legislation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2049
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Garance Genicot and Kaushik Basu
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Georgetown University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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How to Move the Exchange Rate If You Must: The Diverse Practice of Foreign Exchange Intervention by Central Banks and a Proposal for Doing it Better

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6460
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu and Aristomene Varoudakis
Cornell University - Department of Economics and World Bank
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Debt Markets, Emerging Markets, Currencies and Exchange Rates, Economic Stabilization, Economic Theory & Research

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Unemployment and Wage Rigidity When Labor Supply is a Household Decision

UC Irvine Economics Working Paper No. 00-01-11
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 04 Nov 2001
Kaushik Basu, Garance Genicot and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Georgetown University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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added worker, labor supply, unemployment, minimum wage, efficiency wage

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Ponzis: The Science and Mystique of a Class of Financial Frauds

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6967
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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National Governance, Non Bank Financial Institutions, Judicial System Reform, Social Funds and Pensions, Social Policy, Corruption and Anti-Corruption (Superceded), Legislation, Capital Markets and Capital Flows, Government Policies, Legal Products, Corruption & Anticorruption Law, Public Sector Economics, Public Finance Decentralization and Poverty Reduction, Youth and Governance, Legal Reform, Regulatory Regimes, Capital Flows

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Coercion, Contract and the Limits of the Market

CAE Working Paper No. 06-01
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 09 Nov 2006
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Coercion, voluntary choice, contracts, markets, government intervention

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The Collective Model of the Household and an Unexpected Implication for Child Labor: Hypothesis and an Empirical Test

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2813
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Ranjan Ray and Kaushik Basu
Monash University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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On Measuring Literacy

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1997
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu and James E. Foster
Cornell University - Department of Economics and George Washington University
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Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

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Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2736
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 26 Apr 2007
Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das and Bhaskar Dutta
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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child labor, land-holding, education, labor markets

Child Labor and Household Wealth: Theory and Empirical Evidence of an Inverted-U

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Mar 2007
Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das and Bhaskar Dutta
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute and University of Warwick - Department of Economics
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child labor, land-holding, education, labor markets

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The State of Economics, the State of the World

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7816
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Oct 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Economic Policy, Institutions and Governance, Industrial Economics, Economic Theory & Research, Economic Growth

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The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach To?Law and Economics?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7259
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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International Law, Judicial System Reform, Social Policy, Legislation, Legal Products, Regulatory Regimes, Legal Reform

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Alternative Labor Retrenchment Laws and Their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation with Special Reference to Developing Countries

CAE Working Paper No. 00-11
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Nov 2000
Kaushik Basu, Gary Fields and Shub Debgupta
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
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Labor Laws, Retrenchment, Severance Pay, Employment

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Asymmetric Punishment as an Instrument of Corruption Control

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6933
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Karna Basu, Kaushik Basu and Tito Cordella
CUNY Hunter College, Cornell University - Department of Economics and World Bank
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Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures, Crime and Society, Corruption & Anticorruption Law, Social Accountability, Business Ethics, Leadership and Values

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Markets and Manipulation: Time for a Paradigm Shift?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7653
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Regulatory Regimes, Legislation, Social Policy, Judicial System Reform, Equity and Development, Legal Reform, Achieving Shared Growth, Pro-Poor Growth, National Governance, Government Policies, Public Finance Decentralization and Poverty Reduction, Legal Products, Public Sector Economics, Youth and Governance

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Labor Retrenchment Laws and Their Effect on Wages and Employment: A Theoretical Investigation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2742
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Apr 2007
Kaushik Basu, Gary Fields and Shub Debgupta
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
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labor laws, retrenchment, severance pay, unemployment

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Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams with Inter-Generational Equity

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 02-19
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 May 2002
Kaushik Basu and Tapan Mitra
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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aggregating utility, social welfare function, inter-generational equity, Pareto

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The Method of Randomization and the Role of Reasoned Intuition

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6722
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Population Policies, Knowledge for Development, Educational Sciences, Economic Theory & Research, Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems

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Globalization of Labor Markets and the Growth Prospects of Nations

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7590
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Rural Labor Markets, Industrial Economics, Economic Growth, Economic Theory & Research, Labor Markets

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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

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A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

IZA Working Paper No. 3381
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 23 May 2008
Kaushik Basu and Amanda J. Felkey
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University
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unemployment, efficiency wage, minimum wage law, racial differences, South Africa

A Theory of Efficiency Wage with Multiple Unemployment Equilibria: How a Higher Minimum Wage Law Can Curb Unemployment

Oxford Economic Papers, Vol. 61, Issue 3, pp. 494-516, 2009
Posted: 04 Jul 2009
Kaushik Basu and Amanda J. Felkey
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University

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Too Small to Regulate

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6860
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu and Avinash Dixit
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Regulatory Regimes, Markets and Market Access, Water and Industry, Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures, Public Sector Regulation

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When Competition Corrupts: A Theoretical Analysis of Market Structure and the Incidence of Corruption

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6596
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu, Tamara McGavock and Boyang Zhang
Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University and Cornell University, Department of Economics, Students
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Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures, Water and Industry, Markets and Market Access, Gender and Law, Microfinance

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International Lending, Sovereign Debt and Joint Liability: An Economic Theory Model for Amending the Treaty of Lisbon

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6555
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Joseph E. Stiglitz and Kaushik Basu
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Debt Markets, Access to Finance, Banks & Banking Reform, Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress, Economic Theory & Research

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Participatory Equity, Identity, and Productivity: Policy Implications for Promoting Development

CAE Working Paper No. 06-06
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Jan 2007
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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social integration, poverty, participatory equity, community identity

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From Tapering to Tightening: The Impact of the Fed's Exit on India

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7071
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu, Barry Eichengreen and Poonam Gupta
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley and World Bank
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Economic Conditions and Volatility

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The Art of Currency Manipulation: How to Profiteer by Deliberately Distorting Exchange Rates

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6608
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Markets and Market Access, Emerging Markets, Debt Markets, Currencies and Exchange Rates, Economic Theory & Research

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Is Knowledge Shared within Households?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2261
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Martin Ravallion, Kaushik Basu and Ambar Narayan
Georgetown University, Cornell University - Department of Economics and World Bank, Poverty Global Practice
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Interlinkage, Limited Liability, and Strategic Interaction

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2134
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu, Clive Bell and Pinaki Bose
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg - South Asia Institute (SAI) and University of Memphis - Fogelman College of Business and Economics
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interlinked contracts, limited liability, sequential moves

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Fiscal Policy as an Instrument of Investment and Growth

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6850
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Debt Markets, Access to Finance, Emerging Markets, Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress, Non Bank Financial Institutions

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Sovereign Ratings in the Post-Crisis World: An Analysis of Actual, Shadow and Relative Risk Ratings

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6641
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu, Supriyo De, Dilip Ratha and Hans Timmer
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Sydney Business School, World Bank and World Bank
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Debt Markets, Emerging Markets, Banks & Banking Reform, Economic Theory & Research, Currencies and Exchange Rates

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Discrimination as a Coordination Device: Markets and the Emergence of Identity

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7490
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Labor Markets, Employment and Shared Growth, Achieving Shared Growth, Equity and Development, Rural Labor Markets, Pro-Poor Growth

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Literacy Traps: Society-Wide Education and Individual Skill Premia

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4047
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Mar 2009
Vidya Atal, Kaushik Basu, John Gray and Travis Lee
Montclair State University - Feliciano School of Business, Cornell University - Department of Economics, Cornell University and Cornell University
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education, literacy, O-ring, skill formation, traps

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Experiments with the Traveler's Dilemma: Welfare, Strategic Choice and Implicit Collusion

CEIS Working Paper No. 188
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Mar 2011
Kaushik Basu, Leonardo Becchetti and Luca Stanca
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics and University of Milan, Bicocca - Department of Economics
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The Globe and the Circle: Geometry and Economic Geography as Tribute to Thales and Nash

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7819
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 07 Oct 2016
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Nash Equilibria of Games When Players'Preferences are Quasi-Transitive

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7037
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Kaushik Basu and Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Cornell University - Department of Economics and University of California, Riverside (UCR) - Department of Economics
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Education for Development (superceded), Education For All, Educational Populations

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Nash on a Rotary: Two Theorems with Implications for Electoral Politics

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7701
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 Jul 2016
Kaushik Basu and Tapan Mitra
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Peace & Peacekeeping

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Gender and Say: A Model of Household Behaviour with Endogenously Determined Balance of Power

Economic Journal, Vol. 116, No. 511, pp. 558-580, April 2006
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 08 May 2006
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Consumer Cognition and Pricing in the Nines in Oligopolistic Markets

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 125-141, March 2006
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Apr 2006
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics
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Regulation, Minimum Wage and Informality: Introduction to Symposium

Review of Development Economics, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 935-938, 2017
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 13 Nov 2017
Kaushik Basu, Stefan Dercon, Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar
Cornell University - Department of Economics, University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Cornell University and School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, NY, USA
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Sovereign Debt and Joint Liability: An Economic Theory Model for Amending the Treaty of Lisbon

Feature Issue, Vol. 125, Issue 586, pp. F115-F130, 2015
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Aug 2015
Kaushik Basu and Joseph E. Stiglitz
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics
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The Rise of the Indian Economy: Fiscal, Monetary and Other Policy Challenges

Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, Vol. 2, August 2012
Posted: 01 Aug 2012
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Indian economic development, exchange rate intervention, fiscal policy, infrastructure, monetary policy

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The Economics of Child Labor: Reply

American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 5, 1999
Posted: 21 Dec 2008
Kaushik Basu and Van H. Pham
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Baylor University - Department of Economics

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The Economics of Child Labor

American Economic Review, Vol. 88, No. 3, 1998
Posted: 21 Dec 2008
Kaushik Basu and Van H. Pham
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Baylor University - Department of Economics

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Vulnerability, Unemployment and Poverty: A New Class of Measures, its Axiomatic Properties and Applications

BREAD Working Paper No. 069
Posted: 15 Apr 2005
Kaushik Basu and Patrick James Nolen
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Economics

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Vulnerability, unemployment, poverty, welfare

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Compacts, Conventions and Codes: Initiatives for Higher International Labor Standards

Cornell International Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3, Pp. 487-500
Posted: 14 Apr 2002
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics

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The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labour

The Economic Journal, Vol. 110, Issue 462, March 2000
Posted: 13 Nov 2000
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics

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The Role of Norms and Law in Economics: An Essay on Political Economy

Working Paper #461
Posted: 21 May 1998
Kaushik Basu
Cornell University - Department of Economics

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The Babu and the Boxwallah: Managerial Incentives and Government Intervention in a Developing Economy

REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, October 21, 1996
Posted: 15 Jan 1997
Kaushik Basu, Arghya Ghosh and Tridip Ray
Cornell University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi - Delhi Centre

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