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Danila Serra

 

Associate Professor of Economics

Texas A&M University

Email: dserra@tamu.edu

 

 

 

PUBLISHED PAPERS

 

 

“Gender and leadership in organizations: The threat of backlash” with P. Chakraborty (Centenary College). The Economic Journal, 134, Issue 660, May 2024. Link to paper and Ungated.

·        Online Appendix with the instructions of the lab and online experiments.

·        Previous drafts circulated under the titles “Gender differences in top leadership roles: Does worker backlash matter?” and “Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions, demotions and angry workers”]

 

 

 

“Mobilizing parents at home and at school: An experiment on primary education in Angola” with V. Di Maio (World Bank), S. Leeffers (Nova University of Lisbon) and P. Vicente (Nova University of Lisbon). Economic Development and Cultural Change, 72:3, 1069-1116, 2024. Link to paper.

Project website; GlobaDev Blog post

 

 

 

“Can high school counselors help the economics pipeline?” with Melissa Gentry (Texas A&M) and Jonathan Meer (Texas A&M). American Economic Association P&P 113: 462-66.  Link to paper.

·        Presented at ASSA 2023: slides

·        Video recording of the presentation, as part of the CSWEP session on “Gender in the Economics Profession”

 

 

 

“Health Workers’ Behavior, Patient Reporting and Reputational Concerns: Lab-in-the-Field Experimental Evidence from Kenya” with I. Mbiti (U of Virginia). Experimental Economics, 25.2 (2022): 514-556. Link to paper and Ungated.

·        Instructions of the lab-in-the-field experiment here.

 

 

 

“Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models” with C. Porter (Lancaster University). American Economic Journal: Applied, 12(3): 226–254. Link to paper and Ungated.

·        Media Coverage: Dow Jones Moneyish, Pacific Standard, The University Network, Forbes.

·        Read about the study in the new CEPR eBook on Women and Economics.

·        Read an early summary of the study: SMU Press release.

·        Watch a short video of me talking about the study.

 

 

 

“Motivating Whistleblowers” with J. Butler (UC Merced) and G. Spagnolo (SITE, Stockholm School of Economics). Management Science 66.2: 605-621, 2020. Link to paper and Ungated.

 

 

“Corrupt Police” with K. Abbink (Monash University) and D. Ryvkin (FSU). Games and Economic Behavior, 123: 101-119, September 2020. Ungated PDF.

 

 

 

“Corruption and competition among bureaucrats: An experimental study”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU).  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 175, July 2020, pp 439-451. Link to paper. Experimental instructions here.

 

 

“Is more competition always better? An experimental study of extortionary corruption”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU). Economic Inquiry, 57 (1), January 2019: 50-72. Link to paper.

 

 

 “Corruption, Social Judgment and Culture: An Experiment”, with T. Salmon (SMU). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 142: 64-78, 2017. Link to paper.

 

 

“I paid a bribe: An experiment on information sharing and extortionary corruption”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU) and James Tremewan (U of Vienna). European Economic Review, 94: 1-22, 2017. Link to paper

 

 

“Participatory accountability and collective action: Experimental evidence from Albania”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham) and T. Packard (The World Bank). European Economic Review, 68: 250–269, 2014. Link to paper.

 

 

“Intermediaries in corruption: An experiment”, with M. Drugov (Carlos III de Madrid) and J. Hamman (FSU). Experimental Economics, 17(1): 78-99, 2014. Link to paper.

·          Winner of the Editor’s prize for the best paper published in Experimental Economics in the year 2014.

 

 

“Combining top-down and bottom-up accountability: Evidence from a bribery experiment”. Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 28(3): 569-587, August 2012. Online advance access here.

 

 

“Anti-corruption Policies: Lessons from the Lab”, with K. Abbink. In D. Serra and L. Wantchekon (eds.) New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, Research In Experimental Economics Volume 15, Bingly: Emerald Group Publishing, June 2012.

 

 

“Intrinsic motivations and the non-profit health sector: Evidence from Ethiopia”, with P. Serneels (UEA) and A. Barr (U of Nottingham) Personality and Individual Differences, 51(3): 309-314. Link to paper.

 

 

“How corruptible are you? Bribery under uncertainty”, with D. Ryvkin (FSU), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 81(2012): 466-477. Link to paper.

 

 

“Corruption and Culture: An experimental Analysis”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham), Journal of Public Economics, 94, Issues 11-12, December 2010. Link to paper .

 

 

“The effects of externalities and framing on bribery in a petty corruption experiment”, with A. Barr (U of Nottingham), Experimental Economics, 12 (4): 488-503, 2009. Link to paper.

 

 

Discovering the Real World –Health Workers’ Career Choices and Early Work Experience in Ethiopia, with P. Serneels (UEA) and M. Lindelow (World Bank), The World Bank, Washington DC.

 

 

“Empirical Determinants of Corruption: A sensitivity Analysis,” Public Choice 126 (1-2), 225-256, 2006. PDF.

 

 

 

 

EDITED VOLUME

 

 

New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption, edited with Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University), Emerald Group Publishing, June 2012.

 

 

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

“Experimental Development Economics: Current Scope and Future Directions” with U. Dasgupta, P. Jakiela, P. Maitra, O. Ozier and A. Viceisza, forthcoming in for the Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra. Edward Elgar. In press.

 

 

“Role Models in Developing Countries” forthcoming in for the Handbook of Experimental Development Economics, edited by Utteeyo Dasgupta and Pushkar Maitra. Edward Elgar. In press.

 

 

“Anticorruption policies: Lessons from the lab” with K. Abbink. In D.Serra and L. Wantchekon (eds.), New Advances in experimental Research on Corruption”, Emerald group Publishing Limited, 2012.