Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Columbia Universitykh2830@columbia.edu
Selected Publications
Work in Progress
Selected Publications
Caste in stone
K. Hoff, P. Pandey
In: The Handbook of the Economics of Identity, eds. G. Akerlof, R. Kranton, in press
Behavioral Development Economics
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2023
“Small Miracles”—Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy: The World Development Report 2015”
A. Demeritt, K. Hoff
In: Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, edited by Timothy Besley, 2015. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 3, 19-43
Using behavioral economics to reduce poverty and oppresssion--------Un
A. Demeritt, K. Hoff
Social Philosophy & Policy 40(1): 185-209
Stiglitz, Joseph E.
K. Hoff
In: The New Palgrave Encyclopedia, 2008
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
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.
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
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
Exiting a Lawless State
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
Economic Journal (2008) 118: 1474-1497.
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.
Modern Economic Theory and Development
K. Hoff, J.E. Stiglitz
Frontiers of Development Economics, eds. G. Meier and J.E. 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.
Edited Books
Poverty Traps (with S. Bowles and S. Durlauf), Princeton University Press, 2006 (paperback edition, 2016).
The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice, and Policy (with A. Braverman and J.E. Stiglitz), Oxford University Press, 1993.
