Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
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420 West 118th St.
New York, NY 10027
Email: kh2830@columbia.edu
Spring 2022
SIPA INAF U8195 Behavioral Development Economics
GU4913 Behavioral Insights into Economic Development (Senior Seminar)
The Invisible Hand of Culture: How It Affects Economic and Social
Progress and Can Make a Society Rigid
K. Hoff, A. Demeritt, J.E. Stiglitz
Columbia University Press
Behavioral Development Economics
K. Hoff, A. Demeritt
Invited entry to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance
Epistemic Discrimination Against Women: Experimental Evidence from India (with Tauhidur Rahman and Vijayendra Rao) (April 2017 draft)
SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3853215 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3853
Participatory Theater Empowers Women: Evidence From India
K Hoff, J Jalan, S Santra
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 9680 (2021) (revised version is available on request)
The Third Function of Law Is to Transform Cultural Categories
K. Hoff, J. Walsh
In K. Basu, R. Hockett (eds), Law, Economics, and Conflict, Cornell University Press, 2021, pp. 55-85 (in press).
Lab-in-the-field Experiments: Insights into Discrimination and Ways to Reduce It
A. Demeritt, K. Hoff
Submitted to The Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, A. Deshpande (Ed.), Springer.
Cultural Impediments to Learning to Cooperate: An Experimental Study of High- and Low-Caste Men in Rural India
B. Brooks, K. Hoff, P. Pandey
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) 115 (45): 11385-11392.
Striving for Balance in Economics: Towards a Theory of the Social Determination of Behavior
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2016) 126B, 25-57.
World Development Report 2015
K. Hoff, V. Gauri (co-directors)
The World Bank
Making Up People: The Effect of Identity on Performance in a Modernizing Society
K. Hoff, P. Pandey
Journal of Development Economics (2014) 106: 108-131
Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
E. Fehr, K. Hoff
Economic Journal (2011) 121: F396-412.
Caste and Punishment: The Legacy of Caste Culture in Norm Enforcement
K. Hoff, M. Kshetramade, E. Fehr
Economic Journal (2011) 121: F449-475
Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
K Hoff, JE Stiglitz
American Economic Review (2010) 100 (2). 141-146.
Online appendix
Spite and Development
E. Fehr, K. Hoff, M. Kshetramade
American Economic Review (2008) 98(2), 494-499.
Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities
K. Hoff, P. Pandey
American Economic Review (2006) 96(2), 206-211.
The Kin System as a Poverty Trap?
K. Hoff, A. Sen
Poverty Traps (eds. Bowles, Durlauf, Hoff) (Princeton U Press, 2006) 96-115.
Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation
K. Hoff, A. Sen
American Economic Review (2005) 95(4), 11167-1185.
After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
American Economic Review (2004) 94(3) 753-763.
Paths of Institutional Development: A View from Economic History
K. Hoff
World Bank Research Observer (2003) 18(2) 205-226.
Modern Economic Theory and Development
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
Frontiers of Development Economics, eds. G Meier and JE Stiglitz, Oxford U Press (2001), 389-459
Beyond Rosenstein-Rodan: The Modern Theory of Coordination Problems in Development
K. Hoff
Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000 (2001): 145-188.
Moneylenders and Bankers: Price-Increasing Subsidies in a Monopolistically Competitive Market
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
Journal of Development Economics (1998) 55(2):485-518.
Introduction: Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets—Puzzles and Policy Perspectives
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
World Bank Economic Review (1990) 4(3), 235-250.
Edited Books
Poverty Traps (with Samuel Bowles and Steven Durlauf), Princeton University Press, 2006 (paperback edition, 2016).
The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice, and Policy (with Avishay Braverman and Joseph E. Stiglitz), Oxford University Press, 1993.
