Selected economics publications by GPI staff

This page features a list of publications by economists at the Global Priorities Institute (GPI) as well as publications in economics journals by other researchers at GPI.

Note that this list includes publications which may not be related to the core focus areas of GPI. See GPI's working paper series for a list of working papers in GPI’s core focus areas.

2024 and forthcoming

Alexandrie, G. (forthcoming). Must Prioritarians be Antiegalitarian?. Economics & Philosophy, 1-15.

Campos-Martins, S., & Hendry, D. F. (forthcoming). Common volatility shocks driven by the global carbon transition. Journal of Econometrics. 

Horn, S., Jamison, J. C., Karlan, D., & Zinman, J. (forthcoming). Five-year impacts of group-based financial education and savings promotion for Ugandan youth. The Review of Economics and Statistics.

2023

Alexandrie, G. (2023). Two impossibility theorems for social choice under indifference intransitivity. Social Choice and Welfare. 61:919-936

Athey S, Bergstrom K, Hadad V, Jamison, J. C.,, Ozler B, Parisotto L, and Sama JD (2023). Shared Decision-Making: Can Improved Counseling Increase Willingness to Pay for Modern Contraceptives?. Science Advances 9:40.

Blattman, C., Chaskel, S., Jamison, J. C., & Sheridan, M. (2023). Cognitive behavior therapy reduces crime and violence over 10 years: Experimental evidence. American Economic Review: Insights 5:4, 527-45.

Boissonnet, N., Ghersengorin, A., & Gleyze, S. (2023). Revealed deliberate preference change. Games and Economic Behavior, 142, 357-367. 

Burke, J., Jamison, J., Karlan, D., Mihaly, K., & Zinman, J. (2023). Credit building or credit crumbling? A credit builder loan’s effects on consumer behavior and market efficiency in the United States. The Review of Financial Studies, 36(4), 1585-1620. 

Engle, R. F., & Campos-Martins, S. (2023). What are the events that shake our world? Measuring and hedging global COVOL. Journal of Financial Economics, 147(1), 221-242. 

Firth, J. (2023). When do anti-bribery laws affect international trade? World Development. 169, 106306. 

Szaszi B, Palfi B, Neszveda G, Taka A, Szécsi P, Blattman C, Jamison, J. C, and Sheridan M (2023). Does alleviating poverty increase cognitive performance? Short and long term evidence from a randomized controlled trial, Cortex 169, 81-94. 

Vivalt, E. and Coville, A. (2023). How do policymakers update their beliefs? Journal of Development Economics. 165.

2022

Awad, E., Levine, S., Anderson, M., Anderson, S. L., Conitzer, V., Crockett, M. J., ... & Tenenbaum, J. B. Jamison, J. C., (2022). Computational ethics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(5), 388-405.

Campos-Martins, S., & Amado, C. (2022). Financial market linkages and the sovereign debt crisis. Journal of International Money and Finance, 123. 

Chow, V., & Vivalt, E. (2022). Challenges in changing social norms: Evidence from interventions targeting child marriage in Ethiopia. Journal of African Economies, 31(3): 183-210.

Coppock, D. L., Crowley, L., Durham, S. L., Groves, D., Jamison, J. C.., Karlan, D., ... & Ramsey, R. D. (2022). Community-based rangeland management in Namibia improves resource governance but not environmental and economic outcomes. Nature Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 32.

Leight, J., Hensly, C., Chissano, M., Safran, E., Ali, L., Dustan, D., & Jamison, J. (2022). The effects of text reminders on the use of family planning services: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in urban Mozambique. BMJ Global Health, 7(4).

2021

Belot, M., Choi, S., Tripodi, E., Broek-Altenburg, E. V. D., Jamison, J. C., & Papageorge, N. W. (2021). Unequal consequences of Covid 19: representative evidence from six countries. Review of Economics of the Household, 19, 769-783.

Bessone, P., Rao, G., Schilbach, F., Schofield, H., & Toma, M. (2021). The economic consequences of increasing sleep among the urban poor. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 136(3), 1887-1941. 

Carpenter, J., Huet-Vaughn, E., Matthews, P. H., Robbett, A., Beckett, D., & Jamison, J. (2021). Choice architecture to improve financial decision making. Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(1), 102-118.

Gauri, V., Jamison, J. C., Mazar, N., & Ozier, O. (2021). Motivating bureaucrats through social recognition: External validity—a tale of two states. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 163, 117-131. 

McCarthy, D., Mikkola, K., & Thomas, T. (2021). Expected utility theory on mixture spaces without the completeness axiom. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 97, 102538. 

Papageorge, N. W., Zahn, M. V., Belot, M., Van den Broek-Altenburg, E., Choi, S., Jamison, J. C., & Tripodi, E. (2021). Socio-demographic factors associated with self-protecting behavior during the Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Population Economics, 34, 691-738.

Rao, G., Redline, S., Schilbach, F., Schofield, H., & Toma, M. (2021). Informing sleep policy through field experiments. Science, 374(6567), 530-533

2020

DellaVigna, S., Otis, N., & Vivalt, E. (2020). Forecasting the results of experiments: Piloting an elicitation strategy. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 110(5): 75-79.

McCarthy, D., Mikkola, K., & Thomas, T. (2020). Utilitarianism with and without expected utility. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 87, 77-113.

Theodos, B., Stacy, C. P., Hanson, D., Jamison, J., & Daniels, R. (2020). Do not swipe the small stuff: A randomized evaluation of rules of thumb‐based financial education. Journal of Consumer Affairs, 54(2), 701-722.

Vivalt, E. (2020). How much can we generalize from impact evaluations? Journal of the European Economics Association, 18(6): 3045–3089. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaa019