A household panel data set is used to investigate the effects of economic growth on firewood collection in Nepal … education, non-farm business assets and road connectivity with reduced collections. Nepal households collected 25% less firewood …

Using census data from Nepal we examine how the partial derivatives of predicted household welfare vary with parental …

’s constraints on issue linkage (cross-retaliation) welfare-enhancing? To facilitate international cooperation should governments … choices (e.g. to ‘conservative’ central bankers) are good or bad for international policy cooperation? …

We document the establishment and evolution of a cooperative norm among workers using evidence from a natural field … for cooperation. As a counterfactual, we analyse worker behaviour when workers are paid piece rates and thus have no … exposure cooperate more. Shocks to the workforce in the form of new worker arrivals disrupt cooperation in the short term but …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but the electoral …

When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines …

Our results on the relationship between R&D spillovers and cooperation in R&D suggest that it is necessary to … simultaneous relation with cooperative agreements in R&D. …

lead to a unique equilibrium path where external enforcement remains weak and individual values discourage cooperation. …