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Why do spouses hide income?
(Elsevier, 2012-10)
This paper proposes a simplified model of intrahousehold decision making where cooperative and noncooperative behavior are not mutually exclusive. Individuals choose the optimal share of income they wish to devote towards ...
Using uncensored communication channels to divert spam traffic
(Elsevier, 2012-12)
We analyze a simple, feasible improvement to the current email system using an uncensored (open) communication channel. Such a channel could be an email folder or account, to which properly tagged commercial solicitations ...
Principal International Businesses
(2012-09-05)
This is a dataset of the 50,000 largest firms in the world over the period 1978-2007. The data included are employment, total sales, year the firm was started, SIC codes for the firm's activities, and binary indicators for ...
All Space Will Be Public Space
(IEEE, 2011-09)
Today, private lives are lived in public. In the future, all space will be public space. Those are fighting words for many security and privacy researchers. But they’re true enough that adopting this perspective provides ...
All Space Will be Public Space
(2010-10-10)
In the future, all space will be public space. This is a result not only of observing technologies (like CCTV and video recorders in cell phones) but also of information voluntarily provided by individuals, largely through ...
Incentive-Centered Design for User-Contributed Content
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
We review incentive-centered design for user-contributed content (UCC) on the Internet. UCC systems, produced (in part) through voluntary contributions made by non-employees, face fundamental incentives problems. In ...
Why Do Spouses Hide Income
(2012-04-13)
This paper proposes a simplified model of intrahousehold decision making where cooperative and noncooperative behavior are not mutually exclusive. Individuals choose the optimal share of income they wish to devote towards ...
Are women more likely to be credit constrained? Evidence from low-income households in the Philippines
(2012-06)
This paper investigates the determinants of credit constraints among women and men in urban slum communities in the Philippines. Results show that women are more likely to be credit constrained than men. Rather than wealth, ...