Louis Putterman - Publications

Affiliations: 
Economics Brown University, Providence, RI 
Area:
Development Economics, Experimental Economics

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2020 Buser T, Grimalda G, Putterman L, Weele Jvd. Overconfidence and gender gaps in redistributive preferences: Cross-Country experimental evidence Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 178: 267-286. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2020.07.005  0.379
2019 Oliveira ACM, Salmon TC, Ledyard JO, Plott CR, Putterman L. INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON RESEARCH ON SOCIAL DILEMMAS Economic Inquiry. 58: 9-11. DOI: 10.1111/Ecin.12824  0.389
2019 He T, Putterman L, Wang L. Do China's people favour redistribution? Evidence from an incentivized experiment Pacific Economic Review. 24: 293-324. DOI: 10.1111/1468-0106.12289  0.402
2019 Zhang Z, Zhang X, Putterman L. Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 161: 128-144. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2019.03.001  0.379
2019 Chen JI, Foster A, Putterman L. Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending European Economic Review. 120: 103304. DOI: 10.1016/J.Euroecorev.2019.103304  0.335
2019 Batsaikhan M, Putterman L. An Honest Day's Pay: Cooperation among Entrepreneurs vs. Students, and Linkages to Real‐World Business Success Southern Economic Journal. 86: 478-502. DOI: 10.1002/Soej.12391  0.332
2018 PUTTERMAN L. DEMOCRATIC, ACCOUNTABLE STATES ARE IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT “BEHAVIORAL” HUMANS Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. 89: 251-258. DOI: 10.1111/Apce.12198  0.369
2018 Michalopoulos S, Putterman L, Weil DN. The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa Journal of the European Economic Association. 17: 1186-1231. DOI: 10.1093/Jeea/Jvy029  0.415
2018 Ahn TK, Balafoutas L, Batsaikhan M, Campos-Ortiz F, Putterman L, Sutter M. Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 149: 413-433. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2018.01.009  0.381
2017 Kamei K, Putterman L. REPUTATION TRANSMISSION WITHOUT BENEFIT TO THE REPORTER: A BEHAVIORAL UNDERPINNING OF MARKETS IN EXPERIMENTAL FOCUS Economic Inquiry. 56: 158-172. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.2664606  0.322
2017 Kamei K, Putterman L. Play It Again: Partner Choice, Reputation Building and Learning From Finitely Repeated Dilemma Games The Economic Journal. 127: 1069-1095. DOI: 10.1111/Ecoj.12320  0.338
2017 Fu T, Ji Y, Kamei K, Putterman L. Punishment can support cooperation even when punishable Economics Letters. 154: 84-87. DOI: 10.1016/J.Econlet.2017.01.016  0.357
2017 Borcan O, Olsson O, Putterman L. State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia Journal of Economic Growth. 23: 1-40. DOI: 10.1007/S10887-017-9152-0  0.343
2016 Michalopoulos S, Putterman L, Weil DN. The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa National Bureau of Economic Research. DOI: 10.3386/W21907  0.415
2016 Ahn TK, Balafoutas L, Batsaikhan M, Campos-Ortiz F, Putterman L, Sutter M. Securing property rights: A dilemma experiment in Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States Journal of Public Economics. 143: 115-124. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jpubeco.2016.08.015  0.367
2016 Ertan A, Fiszbein M, Putterman L. Who was colonized and when? A cross-country analysis of determinants European Economic Review. 83: 165-184. DOI: 10.1016/J.Euroecorev.2015.10.012  0.327
2015 Kamei K, Putterman L. In broad daylight: Fuller information and higher-order punishment opportunities can promote cooperation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 120: 145-159. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2015.09.020  0.375
2015 Kamei K, Putterman L, Tyran JR. State or nature? Endogenous formal versus informal sanctions in the voluntary provision of public goods Experimental Economics. 18: 38-65. DOI: 10.1007/S10683-014-9405-0  0.318
2014 Putterman L. Behavioural economics: A caring majority secures the future. Nature. 511: 165-6. PMID 25008520 DOI: 10.1038/Nature13510  0.418
2014 Chanda A, Justin Cook C, Putterman L. Persistence of fortune: Accounting for population movements, there was no Post-Columbian reversal American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. 6: 1-28. DOI: 10.1257/Mac.6.3.1  0.31
2014 Durante R, Putterman L, van der Weele Joël J. Preferences for redistribution and perception of fairness: An experimental study Journal of the European Economic Association. 12: 1059-1086. DOI: 10.1111/Jeea.12082  0.392
2014 Markussen T, Putterman L, Tyran JR. Self-organization for collective action: An experimental study of voting on sanction regimes Review of Economic Studies. 81: 301-324. DOI: 10.1093/Restud/Rdt022  0.358
2013 Page T, Putterman L, Garcia B. Voluntary contributions with redistribution: The effect of costly sanctions when one person's punishment is another's reward Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 95: 34-48. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2013.08.006  0.379
2013 Balafoutas L, Kocher MG, Putterman L, Sutter M. Equality, equity and incentives: An experiment European Economic Review. 60: 32-51. DOI: 10.1016/J.Euroecorev.2013.01.005  0.383
2013 Putterman L. Institutions, social capability, and economic growth Economic Systems. 37: 345-353. DOI: 10.1016/J.Ecosys.2012.12.002  0.372
2012 Putterman L. Ownership and the nature of the firm The Economic Nature of the Firm: a Reader, Third Edition. 353-362. DOI: 10.1006/Jcec.1993.1025  0.331
2011 Grosse S, Putterman L, Rockenbach B. Monitoring in teams: Using laboratory experiments to study a theory of the firm Journal of the European Economic Association. 9: 785-816. DOI: 10.1111/J.1542-4774.2011.01026.X  0.356
2011 Cinyabuguma MM, Putterman L. Sub-Saharan growth surprises: Being heterogeneous, inland and close to the equator does not slow growth within Africa Journal of African Economies. 20: 217-262. DOI: 10.1093/Jae/Ejq040  0.309
2011 Ben-Ner A, Putterman L, Ren T. Lavish returns on cheap talk: Two-way communication in trust games Journal of Socio-Economics. 40: 1-13. DOI: 10.1016/J.Socec.2010.09.009  0.314
2011 Putterman L, Tyran JR, Kamei K. Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes Journal of Public Economics. 95: 1213-1222. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jpubeco.2011.05.001  0.369
2010 Bó PD, Foster A, Putterman L. INSTITUTIONS AND BEHAVIOR: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON THE EFFECTS OF DEMOCRACY. The American Economic Review. 100: 2205-2229. PMID 25076785 DOI: 10.1257/Aer.100.5.2205  0.318
2010 Putterman L, Weil DN. Post-1500 Population Flows and the Long Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 125: 1627-1682. PMID 24478530 DOI: 10.1162/Qjec.2010.125.4.1627  0.338
2010 Putterman L. Behavior. Cooperation and punishment. Science (New York, N.Y.). 328: 578-9. PMID 20431003 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1189969  0.322
2009 Putterman L. Human nature, communication and trust Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. 80: 119-131. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8292.2008.00376.X  0.351
2009 Ben-Ner A, Putterman L. Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 70: 106-121. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2009.01.011  0.309
2009 Ertan A, Page T, Putterman L. Who to punish? Individual decisions and majority rule in mitigating the free rider problem European Economic Review. 53: 495-511. DOI: 10.1016/J.Euroecorev.2008.09.007  0.687
2009 Bochet O, Putterman L. Not just babble: Opening the black box of communication in a voluntary contribution experiment European Economic Review. 53: 309-326. DOI: 10.1016/J.Euroecorev.2008.09.005  0.314
2008 Putterman L. Agriculture, diffusion and development: Ripple effects of the neolithic revolution Economica. 75: 729-748. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0335.2007.00652.X  0.338
2008 Li W, Putterman L. Reforming China's SOEs: An overview Comparative Economic Studies. 50: 353-380. DOI: 10.1057/Ces.2008.31  0.341
2007 Ones U, Putterman L. The ecology of collective action: A public goods and sanctions experiment with controlled group formation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 62: 495-521. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.724184  0.694
2007 Chanda A, Putterman L. Early starts, reversals and catch-up in the process of economic development Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 109: 387-413. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9442.2007.00497.X  0.312
2007 Iliev P, Putterman L. Social capability, history and the economies of communist and postcommunist states Studies in Comparative International Development. 42: 36-66. DOI: 10.1007/S12116-007-9002-8  0.372
2006 Putterman L. Chapter 22 Reciprocity, altruism, and cooperative production Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity. 2: 1409-1435. DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0714(06)02022-7  0.33
2006 Dong Xy, Putterman L, Unel B. Privatization and firm performance: A comparison between rural and urban enterprises in China Journal of Comparative Economics. 34: 608-633. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jce.2006.06.005  0.359
2006 Anderson CM, Putterman L. Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism Games and Economic Behavior. 54: 1-24. DOI: 10.1016/J.Geb.2004.08.007  0.407
2006 Cinyabuguma M, Page T, Putterman L. Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment? Experimental Economics. 9: 265-279. DOI: 10.1007/S10683-006-9127-Z  0.359
2005 Cinyabuguma M, Page T, Putterman L. Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment Journal of Public Economics. 89: 1421-1435. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.724203  0.375
2005 Page T, Putterman L, Unel B. Voluntary association in public goods experiments: Reciprocity, mimicry and efficiency Economic Journal. 115: 1032-1053. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0297.2005.01031.X  0.378
2004 Ben-Ner A, Putterman L, Kong F, Magan D. Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 53: 333-352. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jebo.2002.12.001  0.337
2003 Dong XY, Putterman L. Soft budget constraints, social burdens, and labor redundancy in China's state industry Journal of Comparative Economics. 31: 110-133. DOI: 10.1016/S0147-5967(02)00012-4  0.415
2002 Bockstette V, Chanda A, Putterman L. States and markets: The advantage of an early start Journal of Economic Growth. 7: 347-369. DOI: 10.2139/Ssrn.293581  0.365
2002 Dong XY, Putterman L. China's state-owned enterprises in the first reform decade: An analysis of a declining monopsony Economic Change and Restructuring. 35: 109-139. DOI: 10.1023/A:1020137529522  0.379
2001 Dong X, Putterman L. On the Emergence of Labour Redundancy in China's State Industry: Findings from a 1980-1994 Data Panel Comparative Economic Studies. 43: 111-128. DOI: 10.1057/Ces.2001.10  0.302
2000 Putterman L, Dong XY. China's state-owned enterprises: Their role, job creation, and efficiency in long-term perspective Modern China. 26: 403-447. DOI: 10.1177/009770040002600401  0.361
2000 Putterman L. Can an evolutionary approach to development predict post-war economic growth? Journal of Development Studies. 36: 1-30. DOI: 10.1080/00220380008422626  0.355
2000 Dow GK, Putterman L. Why capital suppliers (usually) hire workers: What we know and what we need to know Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 43: 319-336. DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(00)00124-4  0.386
2000 Ben-Ner A, Putterman L. On some implications of evolutionary psychology for the study of preferences and institutions Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 43: 91-99. DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2681(00)00110-4  0.357
2000 Dong XY, Putterman L. Prereform Industry and State Monopsony in China Journal of Comparative Economics. 28: 32-60. DOI: 10.1006/Jcec.1999.1644  0.368
1999 Bassett WF, Burkett JP, Putterman L. Income distribution, government transfers, and the problem of unequal influence European Journal of Political Economy. 15: 207-228. DOI: 10.1016/S0176-2680(99)00004-X  0.338
1997 Putterman L. On the past and future of China's township and village-owned enterprises World Development. 25: 1639-1655. DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(97)00060-0  0.392
1997 Dong XY, Putterman L. Productivity and Organization in China's Rural Industries: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis Journal of Comparative Economics. 24: 181-201. DOI: 10.1006/Jcec.1997.1415  0.356
1996 Dong XY, Putterman L. China's rural industry and monopsony: An exploration Pacific Economic Review. 1: 59-78. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0106.1996.Tb00174.X  0.359
1995 Putterman L. Social capital and development capacity: the example of rural Tanzania Development Policy Review. 13: 5-22. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-7679.1995.Tb00078.X  0.358
1995 Putterman L. Economic reform and smallholder agriculture in Tanzania: A discussion of recent market liberalization, road rehabilitation, and technology dissemination efforts World Development. 23: 311-326. DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(94)00121-E  0.358
1995 Putterman L. Markets, hierarchies, and information: On a paradox in the economics of organization Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 26: 373-390. DOI: 10.1016/0167-2681(94)00069-Q  0.326
1993 Burkett JP, Putterman L. The supply of labour by individuals to a Chinese collective farm: the case of Dahe commune Economica. 60: 381-396. DOI: 10.2307/2554568  0.374
1993 PUTTERMAN L. EXIT, VOICE, AND PORTFOLIO CHOICE: AGENCY AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP Economics and Politics. 5: 205-218. DOI: 10.1111/J.1468-0343.1993.Tb00075.X  0.376
1993 Gaynor M, Putterman L. Productivity consequences of alternative land division methods in China's decollectivization An econometric analysis Journal of Development Economics. 42: 357-386. DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(93)90025-I  0.335
1993 Bonin JP, Putterman L. Incentives and Monitoring in Cooperatives with Labor-Proportionate Sharing Schemes Journal of Comparative Economics. 17: 663-686. DOI: 10.1006/Jcec.1993.1048  0.364
1993 Putterman L, Skillman GL. Collectivization and China′s Agricultural Crisis Journal of Comparative Economics. 17: 530-539. DOI: 10.1006/Jcec.1993.1041  0.337
1992 Putterman L. Institutional Boundaries, Structural Change, and Economic Reform in China:An Introduction Modern China. 18: 3-13. DOI: 10.1177/009770049201800101  0.38
1992 Putterman L. Dualism and reform in China Economic Development & Cultural Change. 40: 467-493. DOI: 10.1086/451957  0.369
1992 Putterman L, Skillman GL. The role of exit costs in the theory of cooperative teams Journal of Comparative Economics. 16: 596-618. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(92)90094-N  0.368
1991 Rosner M, Putterman L. Factors behind the supply and demand for less alienating work, and some international illustrations International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 11: 125-152. DOI: 10.1108/Eb013150  0.308
1991 Putterman L. The political economy of collective farms: An analysis of China's post-mao rural reforms Journal of Comparative Economics. 15: 176-178. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(91)90121-9  0.344
1990 Putterman L. Village communities, cooperation, and inequality in Tanzania: Comments on Collier et al World Development. 18: 147-153. DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(90)90109-B  0.323
1990 Putterman L. The New China: Comparative economic development in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Journal of Development Economics. 32: 230-231. DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(90)90067-L  0.315
1990 Putterman L. Peasant economics: Farm households and agrarian development Journal of Comparative Economics. 14: 140-141. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(90)90093-O  0.338
1990 Putterman L. Effort, productivity, and incentives in a 1970s Chinese People's commune Journal of Comparative Economics. 14: 88-104. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(90)90087-P  0.315
1989 PUTTERMAN L. COMMODIFICATION OF LABOR FOLLOWS COMMODIFICATION OF THE FIRM ON A THEOREM OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. 60: 161-179. DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-8292.1989.Tb01999.X  0.335
1989 Putterman L. China's political economy: The quest for development since 1949 Journal of Development Economics. 31: 202-205. DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(89)90041-2  0.328
1989 Hsiung B, Putterman L. Pre- and post-reform income distribution in a Chinese Commune: The case of dahe township in Hebei Province Journal of Comparative Economics. 13: 406-445. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(89)90071-1  0.324
1988 Putterman L. Ration Subsidies and Incentives in the Pre-Reform Chinese Commune Economica. 55: 235. DOI: 10.2307/2554470  0.329
1988 Putterman L. People’s republic of china: Systemic and structural change in a north china township American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 70: 423-430. DOI: 10.2307/1242087  0.389
1988 Putterman L. Group farming and work incentives in collective-era China Modern China. 14: 419-450. DOI: 10.1177/009770048801400403  0.364
1988 Putterman L. The Firm as Association Versus the Firm as Commodity Economics and Philosophy. 4: 243-266. DOI: 10.1017/S0266267100001073  0.348
1987 Putterman L. The incentive problem and the demise of team farming in China Journal of Development Economics. 26: 103-127. DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(87)90054-X  0.345
1987 Putterman L. The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms, markets, relational contracting Journal of Comparative Economics. 11: 282-285. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(87)90106-5  0.325
1985 Putterman L. Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Problems of Agricultural Cooperation: Anti-incentivism in Tanzania and China The Journal of Development Studies. 21: 175-204. DOI: 10.1080/00220388508421937  0.349
1984 Putterman L. On Some Recent Explanations Of Why Capital Hires Labor Economic Inquiry. 22: 171-187. DOI: 10.1111/J.1465-7295.1984.Tb00677.X  0.355
1984 Putterman L. Tanzanian and african socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer World Development. 12: 461-464. DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(84)90023-8  0.393
1984 Putterman L. A note on the relationship of interdependent action to the optimality of certain voting decisions Theory and Decision. 17: 257-265. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00132610  0.373
1983 Putterman L. A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity: Reconsidering the private, unimodal solution World Development. 11: 77-100. DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(83)90061-X  0.352
1982 Putterman L. Some behavioral perspectives on the dominance of hierarchical over democratic forms of enterprise Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 3: 139-160. DOI: 10.1016/0167-2681(82)90015-4  0.335
1981 Putterman L. Is a democratic collective agriculture possible?. Theoretical considerations and evidence from Tanzania Journal of Development Economics. 9: 375-403. DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(81)90014-6  0.371
1980 Putterman L. Voluntary collectivization: A model of producers' institutional choice Journal of Comparative Economics. 4: 125-157. DOI: 10.1016/0147-5967(80)90025-6  0.387
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