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Louis Putterman

Global rank #356 99%

Institution: Brown University

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Economics/Faculty/Louis_Putterman/

First Publication: 1981

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: ppu14 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.67 3.33 0.00 5.15
Last 10 Years 0.00 3.02 7.36 0.00 15.33
All Time 4.36 16.76 46.90 0.00 103.80

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 74
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 80.28

Publications (74)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 A comparison of endogenous and exogenous group formation to increase cooperation Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics B 3
2024 Ethnic bias, economic achievement and trust between large ethnic groups: A study in Germany and the U.S Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 8
2024 The determinants of trust: findings from large, representative samples in six OECD countries Economica C 7
2023 Civic engagement, the leverage effect and the accountable state European Economic Review B 3
2023 Algorithmic Leviathan or Individual Choice: Choosing Sanctioning Regimes in the Face of Observational Error Economica C 3
2023 The politicized pandemic: Ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19 European Economic Review B 5
2022 Trust, Beliefs and Cooperation: Excavating a Foundation of Strong Economies European Economic Review B 3
2021 Transition to agriculture and first state presence: A global analysis Explorations in Economic History B 3
2021 Trigger-happy or precisionist? On demand for monitoring in peer-based public goods provision Journal of Public Economics A 3
2020 Overconfidence and gender gaps in redistributive preferences: Cross-Country experimental evidence Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2020 INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON RESEARCH ON SOCIAL DILEMMAS Economic Inquiry C 5
2019 An Honest Day's Pay: Cooperation among Entrepreneurs vs. Students, and Linkages to Real‐World Business Success Southern Economic Journal C 2
2019 The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa Journal of the European Economic Association A 3
2019 Correction to: The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa Journal of the European Economic Association A 3
2019 Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending European Economic Review B 3
2019 Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2018 Trust and communication in a property rights dilemma Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 6
2018 REPUTATION TRANSMISSION WITHOUT BENEFIT TO THE REPORTER: A BEHAVIORAL UNDERPINNING OF MARKETS IN EXPERIMENTAL FOCUS Economic Inquiry C 2
2018 State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia Journal of Economic Growth A 3
2017 Learned generosity? An artefactual field experiment with parents and their children Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2017 Punishment can support cooperation even when punishable Economics Letters C 4
2016 Securing property rights: A dilemma experiment in Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South Korea and the United States Journal of Public Economics A 6
2016 Who was colonized and when? A cross-country analysis of determinants European Economic Review B 3
2016 Judicial error and cooperation European Economic Review B 3
2015 In broad daylight: Fuller information and higher-order punishment opportunities can promote cooperation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2015 State or nature? Endogenous formal versus informal sanctions in the voluntary provision of public goods Experimental Economics A 3
2014 Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Population Movements, There Was No Post-Columbian Reversal American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 3
2014 Self-Organization for Collective Action: An Experimental Study of Voting on Sanction Regimes Review of Economic Studies S 3
2013 Equality, equity and incentives: An experiment European Economic Review B 4
2013 Voluntary contributions with redistribution: The effect of costly sanctions when one person's punishment is another's reward Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2013 Book Reviews Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
2011 Lavish returns on cheap talk: Two-way communication in trust games Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics B 3
2011 Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Trust among the Avatars: A Virtual World Experiment, with and without Textual and Visual Cues Southern Economic Journal C 2
2010 Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy American Economic Review S 3
2010 Post-1500 Population Flows and The Long-Run Determinants of Economic Growth and Inequality Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2009 Trust, communication and contracts: An experiment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2009 Not just babble: Opening the black box of communication in a voluntary contribution experiment European Economic Review B 2
2009 Who to punish? Individual decisions and majority rule in mitigating the free rider problem European Economic Review B 3
2008 Agriculture, Diffusion and Development: Ripple Effects of the Neolithic Revolution Economica C 1
2007 Early Starts, Reversals and Catch‐up in the Process of Economic Development* Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 2
2007 The ecology of collective action: A public goods and sanctions experiment with controlled group formation Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2006 Communication and punishment in voluntary contribution experiments Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2006 Do non-strategic sanctions obey the law of demand? The demand for punishment in the voluntary contribution mechanism Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2006 Can second-order punishment deter perverse punishment? Experimental Economics A 3
2005 Cooperation under the threat of expulsion in a public goods experiment Journal of Public Economics A 3
2004 Reciprocity in a two-part dictator game, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 4
2004 Culture, genes and cooperation: comment on Henrich Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
2002 States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start. Journal of Economic Growth A 3
2000 On some implications of evolutionary psychology for the study of preferences and institutions Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
2000 Why capital suppliers (usually) hire workers: what we know and what we need to know Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 2
1999 Preindustrial and Postwar Economic Development: Is There a Link? Economic Development & Cultural Change B 3
1998 repec:bla:scandj:v:100:y:1998:i:1:p:359-63 Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 1
1997 On the past and future of china's township and village-owned enterprises World Development B 1
1995 Markets, hierarchies, and information: On a paradox in the economics of organization Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
1995 Economic reform and smallholder agriculture in Tanzania: A discussion of recent market liberalization, road rehabilitation, and technology dissemination efforts World Development B 1
1993 Productivity consequences of alternative land division methods in China's decollectivization An econometric analysis Journal of Development Economics A 2
1993 repec:bla:econom:v:60:y:1993:i:240:p:381-96 Economica C 1
1992 Food insecurity and the social division of labour in Tanzania, 1919-85 : Deborah Faby Bryceson, (Macmillan, London, 1990) pp. xvii+285 Journal of Development Economics A 1
1992 Dualism and Reform in China. Economic Development & Cultural Change B 1
1991 Does Poor Supervisability Undermine Teamwork? Evidence from an Unexpected American Economic Review S 1
1990 The New China: Comparative economic development in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong : Alvin Rabushka (Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1987) Journal of Development Economics A 1
1990 Village communities, cooperation, and inequality in Tanzania: Comments on Collier et al World Development B 1
1988 repec:bla:econom:v:55:y:1988:i:218:p:235-47 Economica C 1
1988 The incentive effects of monitoring under alternative compensation schemes International Journal of Industrial Organization B 2
1987 The incentive problem and the demise of team farming in China Journal of Development Economics A 1
1985 Internal labor markets : Paul Osterman, ed., (M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984) pp. xii + 296, $30.00 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
1985 Choice and Efficiency in a Model of Democratic Semi-collective Agriculture. Oxford Economic Papers C 2
1984 Tanzanian and african socialism: Comment on Weaver and Kronemer World Development B 1
1983 A modified collective agriculture in rural growth-with-equity: Reconsidering the private, unimodal solution World Development B 1
1982 Some behavioral perspectives on the dominance of hierarchical over democratic forms of enterprise Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1
1981 Is a democratic collective agriculture possible? : Theoretical considerations and evidence from Tanzania Journal of Development Economics A 1
1981 The organization of work : Comment Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 1