Articles & Papers (updated February 2010)
Most of my published and working papers are in the Middlebury College Working Paper Series and are available online at my IDEAS working paper site
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Paper or book title - publications |
Author(s) |
Year of publication |
| "Killington Resort, Vermont - Can a Mountain Ecosysyem be Protected When the Law Protects its Parts?" (Four chapters) in Mountain Resorts: Ecology and the Law | Julia LeMense and Jonathan Isham | 2009 |
“The Determinants of Water Connection and Water Consumption: Empirical Evidence from a Cambodian Household Survey." World Development 36(5): 953-68. |
Marcello Basani, Jonathan Isham, and Barry Reilly. | 2008 |
| Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement | Jonathan Isham and Sissel Waage | 2007 |
“Does Relationship Lending Still Matter in the Consumer Banking Sector?” Social Sciences Quarterly 88(2): 585-97. |
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham, Ryan Petersen, and Paul Sommers. | 2007 |
“Is George Bailey Dead?” Applied Financial Economic Letters 3(1): 19-24. |
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham and Paul Sommers. | 2007 |
“How Do Local Environmental Groups Create Social Capital and Affect Environmental Policy? Empirical and Case Study Evidence from Vermont.” Society and Natural Resources 19(10). |
Christopher McGrory Klyza, Jonathan Isham, and Andrew Savage | 2006 |
“Overcoming Information Asymmetries in Low-Income Lending: Lessons from the ‘Working Wheels’ Program." Southern Economic Journal 72(2): 329-51. |
Jessica Holmes, Jonathan Isham and Jessica Wasilewski | 2006 |
| "The Effects of Volunteering for Non-profit Organizations on Social Capital Formation: Evidence from a Statewide Survey." Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 35(3): 367-83 | Jonathan Isham, Jane Kolodinsky, and Garret Kimberly | 2006 |
| "The Varieties of the Resource Experience: Natural Resource Export Structures and the Political Economy of Economic Growth." World Bank Economic Review 19(2): 141-74. | Jonathan Isham, Michael Woolcock, Lant H. Pritchett and Gwen Busby | 2005. |
| "The Greening of Social Capital: Evidence from Two Counties in Vermont" Rural Sociology 70(1): 113-31 | Andrew Savage, Jonathan Isham and Christopher McGrory Klyza | 2005 |
| "Killington Mountain Resort: A Case Study of 'Green' Expansion in Vermont." The Vermont Law Review 26 (3): 543 - 64. | Jonathan Isham and Jeff Polubinski | 2003 |
| "The
Importance of 'Exit and Voice' in the Provision of Clean Water:
Evidence from India and Sri Lanka." In Democracy
and Development (University Press of New England) Sunder
Ramaswamy and Jeffrey Cason, Eds. |
Jonathan Isham and Satu Kähkönen | 2003 |
| Social Capital and Economic Development: Well-being in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar Publications) | Jonathan Isham, Sunder Ramaswamy, and Thomas Kelly | 2002 |
| "Social Capital and Well-Being In Developing Countries: An Introduction." In Social Capital and Economic Development: Well-being in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar Publications) | Jonathan Isham, Thomas Kelly and Sunder Ramaswamy | 2002 |
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"Can Investments in Social Capital Improve Local Development and Environmental Outcomes? A Cost-Benefit Framework to Assess the Policy Options." In Social Capital and Economic Development: Well-being in Developing Countries (Edward Elgar Publications) |
Jonathan Isham |
2002
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"What Determines the Effectiveness of Community-Base Water Projects? Evidence from Central Java, Indonesia " In The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment (Cambridge University Press) Christiaan Grootaert and Thierry van Bastelaer, Eds. . |
Jonathan Isham and Satu Kähkönen |
2002 |
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"Institutional Determinants of the Impact of Community-Based Water Projects: Evidence from Sri Lanka and India." Economic Development and Cultural Change 50 (3): 667-92. |
Jonathan Isham and Satu Kähkönen |
2002 |
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"The Effect of Social Capital on Fertilizer Adoption: Evidence from Rural Tanzania." The Journal of African Economies 11 (1): 39-60. |
Jonathan Isham |
2002 |
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"The Social Foundations of Poor Economic Growth in Resource-Rich Countries." Resource Abundance and Economic Growth (Oxford University Press), Richard Auty, Ed., pp. 76-92. |
Michael Woolcock, Lant H. Pritchett and Jonathan Isham |
2001 |
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"How Policies and Institutions Affect Project Performance: Microeconomic Evidence on Aid, Policies, and Investment Productivity" The World Bank: Structure and Policies (Oxford University Press), Christopher L. Gilbert and David VInes, Eds., pp. 228-265. |
Daniel Kaufmann and Jonathan Isham |
2000 |
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"Can Investments in Social Capital Improve Well-Being in Fishing Communities? A Theoretical Perspective for Assessing the Policy Options." in Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. |
Jonathan Isham |
2000 |
| "The Forgotten Rationale for Policy Reform: The Productivity of Investment Projects." 1999. Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (1): 149-184. | Jonathan Isham and Daniel Kaufmann | 1999 |
| "Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Performance of Government Projects." 1997. World Bank Economic Review 11 (2): 219-42. | Jonathan Isham, Daniel Kaufmann, and Lant H. Pritchett. | 1997 |
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"Does Participation Improve Performance? Establishing Causality with Subjective Data." 1995. World Bank Economic Review 9 (2): 175-200. |
Jonathan Isham, Deepa Narayan and Lant H. Pritchett. | 1995 |