Research
Publications
Jack, B.K. (2012) “Private information and the allocation of land use subsidies in Malawi” American Economic Journal: Applied, forthcoming.
Ashraf, N., B.K. Jack and Emir Kamenica. (2012) “Information and subsidies: Complements or substitutes?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, forthcoming.
Ajayi, O.C., B.K. Jack and B. Leimona (2012) “Auction Design for the Private Provision of Public Goods in Developing Countries: Lessons from Payments for Environmental Services in Malawi and Indonesia” World Development 40(6): 1213-1223.
Jack, B.K., B. Leimona, P.J. Ferraro. (2009) “A Revealed Preference Approach to Estimating Supply Curves for Ecosystem Services: Experimental field auctions and soil erosion control in Indonesia” Conservation Biology 23(2): 359-367.
Jack, B.K., C. Kousky, K.R.E. Sims. (2008). “Designing payments for ecosystem services: Lessons from previous experience with incentive-based mechanisms” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105: 9465-9470.
Working papers
Jack, B.K. and M. Recalde (2013). “Local leadership and the voluntary provision of public goods: Field evidence from Bolivia.”
Ashraf, N., O. Bandiera and B.K. Jack. (2012) “No margin, no mission? A field experiment on the role of incentives in the distribution of public goods” CEPR Discussion Paper 8834. Submitted.
Vox Policy Brief on the paper.
Greenstone, M. and B.K. Jack. (2012) “Environmental and development economics: A research agenda for a young field” Revise and Resubmit.
Jack, B.K. (2011) “Market inefficiencies and the adoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries.” White paper prepared for the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative, JPAL (MIT) / CEGA (Berkeley).
World Bank blog post on the ATAI white paper
Jack, B.K. (2009) “Auctioning conservation contracts in Indonesia—Participant learning in multiple trial rounds” CID Graduate Student and Research Fellow Working Paper, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
Ongoing research
“Incentive, productivity and selection effects of piece rates: Casual labor markets in rural Malawi” (with Raymond Guiteras). [Email for the latest draft]
“Screening contracts to address additionality from avoided deforestation” (with Raymond Guiteras and Paulina Oliva).
“Contract and market design for land-based carbon offsets in Zambia” (with Sam Bell, Paulina Oliva and Liz Walker).