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1 March 2007 The World Bank 1818 H. St. NW, MC-301 Washington DC (voice), (fax) URL: EDUCATION CURRICULUM VITAE Karla Hoff Ph.D. Princeton University, Economics, 1989 M.A. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University B.A. Wellesley College HONORS World Bank Spot Award, 2002 Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Maryland, Dept. of Economics, 1994, 1996, 1997 Princeton University Fellowship Wellesley College Scholar National Merit Scholar PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD Senior Research Economist, World Bank, 2000 to date; Research Economist, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, 2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, International Tax Economist, Office of Tax Analysis, U.S. Treasury Department, PUBLICATIONS Edited books Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf, and Karla Hoff, eds., Poverty Traps, Princeton University Press, Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice, and Policy, Oxford University Press, 1993.

2 Articles and book chapters Exiting a Lawless State (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), Economic Journal, forthcoming. Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities (with Priyanka Pandey), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2006, The Kin System as a Poverty Trap? (with Arijit Sen), in Poverty Traps, Samuel Bowles, Steven Durlauf, and Karla Hoff (eds.), Princeton University Press, 2006, Opportunity is Not Everything: How Belief Systems and Mistrust Shape Responses to Economic Incentives (with Priyanka Pandey) Economics of Transition 13 (2), Special issue on Institutions and Economic Performance, , July The Extended Family System and Market Interactions (with Arijit Sen), in The Social Economics of Poverty: On Identities, Groups, Communities, and Networks, Christopher Barrett (ed.), Routledge, 2005, Homeownership, Community Interactions, and Segregation (with Arijit Sen), American Economic Review 95 (4), September 2005, Political Alternation, Regardless of Ideology, Diminishes Influence Buying: Lessons from Transitions in Former Communist States (with Shale Horowtiz and Branko Milanovic), Policy Outlook, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, January 2005, 1-6. After the Big Bang? Obstacles to the Emergence of the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Societies (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), American Economic Review 94 (3), June 2004, The Transition Process in Post-Communist Societies: Towards a Political Economy of Property Rights (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), in Bertil Tungodden, Nicholas Stern, and Ivar Kolstad (eds.), Toward Pro-Poor Policies - Aid, Institutions and Globalization. World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004, Translations in: Revue d'economie du developpement ( _03) and Nanjing Business Review 4 (2005), pp , under the title: The Transition from Communism: A Diagrammatic Exposition of Obstacles to the Demand for the Rule of Law. Can Privatization Come Too Soon? Politics after the Big Bang in Post-Communist Societies. in Economics for an Imperfect World, eds. Richard Arnott, Bruce Greenward, Ravi Kanbur, and Barry Nalebuff, MIT Press, 2003,

3 Paths of Institutional Development: A View from Economic History, World Bank Research Observer 18(2), 2003, Beyond Rosenstein-Rodan: The Modern Theory of Coordination Problems in Development, Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2000, Washington DC: World Bank, 2001, Modern Economic Theory and Development, with Joseph. E. Stiglitz, in Frontiers of Development Economics, Gerald Meier and J.E. Stiglitz (eds), Oxford University Press, 2001, Moneylenders and Bankers: Price-Increasing Subsidies with Monopolistic Competition, (with Joseph E. Stiglitz), Journal of Development Economics 55, 1998, Bayesian Learning in a Model of Infant Industries, Journal of International Economics 43, 1997, Market Failures and the Distribution of Wealth: A Perspective from the Economics of Information, Politics and Society 24, 1996, Reprinted in Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States, and Markets, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Verso, 1998, ch. 16. (in Portuguese): Distribuicao de Riqueza e Crescimento Economico, Estudos Nead 2, 2000, Brasilia, Brazil, NEAD, Non-Leaky Buckets: Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Agency Costs (with Andrew Lyon), Journal of Public Economics 58, 1995, The Second Theorem of the Second Best, Journal of Public Economics 25, 1994, A Reexamination of the Neoclassical Trade Model under Uncertainty, Journal of International Economics 36, 1994, Land Taxes, Output Taxes, and Sharecropping: Was Henry George Right? World Bank Economic Review 5, 1991, Imperfect Information and Rural Credit Markets: Puzzles and Policy Perspectives, with Joseph E. Stiglitz, World Bank Economic Review 5, 1990, Notes and miscellany Joseph E. Stiglitz, in: New Palgrave Encyclopedia, 2 nd ed. Stephen N. Durlauf and Larry E. Blume (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming in

4 Comment on Sendhil Mullainathan, Development Economics through the Lens of Psychology, Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 2005, Washington DC: World Bank, 2005, Second and Third Best Theories, in Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, London: Fitzroy Dearborn, Joseph E. Stiglitz, International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, 2 nd edition, Malcolm Warner (ed.), London: Berkshire House, 2001, Comment on Abhijit Banerjee, "Land Reforms: Prospects and Strategies," Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999, Washington DC: World Bank, 2000, Comment on Ravi Kanbur and Nora Lustig, "Why Is Inequality Back on the Agenda," Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1999, Washington DC: World Bank, 2000, Comment on Timothy Besley, "Political Economy of Targeting: Theory and Institutions," Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1996, Washington DC: World Bank, 1997, Review of Gareth Austin and Kaoru Sugihara (eds.), Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, (St. Martin's Press). In Journal of Development Economics, 1996, Review of Anne Krueger, Political Economy of Policy Reform in Developing Countries (MIT Press). In Journal of Economic Literature, 1994, Review of Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (Cambridge University Press). In Kyklos, 1992, Review of Jean-Jacques Laffont, The Economics of Uncertainty and Information (MIT Press) and Louis Phlips, The Economics of Imperfect Information (Cambridge University Press). In Managerial and Decision Economics, 1991, Introduction: Agricultural Taxation and Land Rights Systems, World Bank Economic Review 5, 1991, UNPUBLISHED PAPERS Norm Enforcement under Social Discrimination (with Mayuresh Kshetramade and Ernst Fehr) (Short version invited for American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2008) The Persistent Effects of Discrimination and the Role of Social Identity (with Priyanka Pandey) Revision requested by Review of Economics and Statistics. 4

5 What Can Economists Explain by Taking into Account People s Perceptions of Fairness? Revision and resubmission requested by the World Bank Research Observer. Institutional Inertia in Local Government: Evidence from an Indian Village 2005 (with Priyanka Pandey and Monica Das Gupta) RESEARCH GRANTS AND MEMBERSHIP IN RESEARCH NETWORKS Stanford Institute for Economic Policy, Research network on the structure and evolution of institutions, first meeting November 2005 MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Inequality and Economic Performance, 1996-date (Network of 17 economists and other social scientists centered at MIT) Pew Charitable Trust Research Network: The Moral and Social Dimensions of Microeconomic Behavior in Low-Income Communities, 2002-date (network of 15 economists, centered at Cornell) World Bank Research Support grant, The Legacy of Social Inequality in Expectations, Norms and Governance: An Experimental Investigation in India, Santa Fe Institute grant, The Political Economy of Transition, World Bank-Netherlands Partnership Program, Culture, Social Status, and the Demand for Education, Junior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy Reform, summer 1992 Summer research award, General Research Board, University of Maryland, 1991 Brookings Fellow, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Conferences organized Political Economy of Transition Countries, CERGE (Prague), Sept Co-organizer of conference on Economics of Rural Organization, Annapolis, Md., July 1989 Editorial and advisory boards Editorial board, World Bank Economic Review, Outside advisory committee for the World Development Report, World Bank, 1998 Consultant to the MacArthur Foundation Empowerment Zone Research Project, Guest Editor, World Bank Economic Review,

6 Research Presentations, and planned presentations for American Economic Association, Panel on Psychology and Economics, January 2008 Georgetown University Law Center, Law and Economics Workshop, October 2007 Joint World Bank-IMF seminar, September 2007 University of Manchester, July 2007 Conference on Measuring Preferences in a Social Context, University of Texas at Dallas, May 2007 Economists Forum 2007, World Bank, April 2007 University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, March 2007 George Washington University, March 2007 Harvard, March 2007 (presentation by Ernst Fehr of co-authored work) Cornell University, November 2006 World Bank, Poverty and Applied Micro Seminar Series, November 2006 MacArthur Research Network on the Effects of Inequality, MIT, October University of Manchester, August American Economic Association, Panels on: Economic Consequences of Social Identity, and Experiments in Developing Countries, January 2006 Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, November Tufts University, November APSA, Poster Session, September 2005 InterAmerican Development Bank, June 2005 Columbia University, April 2005 Cornell-Pew conference on Empirical work on identities, communities and networks, March 2005 MacArthur Foundation Norms and Preferences Working Group, U. of Pennsylvania, Jan Princeton University, December 2004 Conference on Political Economy of Transition Countries, CERGE (Prague), Sept World Bank, Macroeconomics and Growth Seminar, July 2004 Cornell/MIT/LSE Conference on Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, and Development Economics, May 2004 World Bank Panel on Social Cohesion and Poverty Reduction, May 2004 Harvard-MIT Joint Development Seminar, April 2004 Boston University, April 2004 Brookings Institution, April 2004 American Economic Association meetings, panel on Reciprocity, altruism and trust in economic development, January 2004 American Economic Association meetings, panel on Really existing transition: Visions and reality in post-communist transformations, January 2004 Brookings Institution, roundtable on Social service delivery in developing countries: From innovative research to practical policies, December Cornell, November

7 University of California-Berkeley, September 2003 American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, August 2003 World Bank Microeconomic Seminar, June 2003 Harvard, Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy (PIEP), May 2003 American Economic Association meetings, Washington DC, January 2003 Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE)-Oslo, July, 2002 World Bank Macroeconomic Seminar, 2002 World Bank Microeconomic Seminar, 2002 American Political Science Association meetings, Boston, August 2002 Econometric Society Meetings, Atlanta, January, 2002 Princeton University, May 2002 UCLA, May 2002 Reed College, Bernard Goldhammer Memorial Lecture, May 2002 Penn State University, 2002 Unpublished discussions since 2002 Overview discussant for conference on How and why history matters for development policy? University of Manchester, April 7-8, 2008 Daniel Benjamin, James Choi and Joshua Strickland, "Social Identity and Preferences," NBER Macroeconomics and Individual Decision Making Conference, November Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the Western World, Princeton University Press, Book launch at the InfoShop, October Serguey Braguinsky, The rise and fall of post-communist oligarchs: Legitimate and illegitimate children of Praetorian Communism, World Bank Conference on Microeconomics of Growth, June Joana Naritomi, Juliano Assuncao, and Rodrigo Soares, Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of De Facto Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil, Center for Global Development, Washington DC, April Iris Bohnet and Richard Zechkauser, The Impact of Social Preferences on Trust, Annual Meetings of the American Economic Association, Jan Mark Granovetter, The Social Construction of Corruption, World Bank Social Science and Policy Seminar, November Abhijit Banerjee, Who Is Getting the Public Goods in India, Conference on Politics and Service Delivery: When Do Governments Fail Voters? World Bank, April

8 Indraneel Dasgupta and Ravi Kanbur, Community and Anti-Poverty Targeting, Conference on Theoretical Perspectives on Identity, Community, and Economic Policy, Barcelona, Feb Alexander Sarris and Christian Tritten, Factor Market Imperfections and Polarization of Agrarian Structures in Central and Eastern Europe, Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics, May Oded Galor and David Mayer, Food for Thought: Basic Needs and Persistent Educational Inequality, Econometric Society Meetings, January Refereeing American Economic Review, Annual Bank Conference in Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, Brookings Institution, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Economica, Economics of Transition, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, National Science Foundation, Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, Rand Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Southern Economic Journal, World Bank Economic Review, World Development COURSES TAUGHT The Economics of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (MPP), Uncertainty and Information (graduate and undergraduate); Economics of Development (MPP), Microtheory (graduate and undergraduate honors), Public Finance (undergraduate), International Economics (undergraduate) 8

EDUCATION HONORS AND AWARDS

EDUCATION HONORS AND AWARDS Karla Hoff The World Bank 1818 H. St. NW, MC-301 Washington DC 20433 khoff@worldbank.org 202-473-4077 (voice), 202-522-3518 (fax) URL: http://econ.worldbank.org/staff/khoff EDUCATION Ph.D., Princeton University,