Research by Michael McBride
Michael
McBride
UCI Department of Economics
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This Los Angeles Times front
page
article "Happy?
Let's Sum It Up" (3 July 2006) mentions some of my research
on happiness (article also appears in the Houston Chronicle, 10 July
2006).
Peer-reviewed
journal articles
1.
Relative-income
Effects on Subjective Well-being in the Cross-section, 2001,
Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization 45 (3): 251-278
2.
Explication
of the Cultural Transmission Model, 2004, with Elisa Bienenstock
(UC Irvine)
American Sociological
Review 69 (1): 138-143
3.
Crises,
Reforms, and Regime Persistence in sub-Saharan Africa, 2005,
European
Journal of Political Economy 21 (3): 688-707
4.
Imperfect
Monitoring in Communication Networks, 2006,
Journal of Economic
Theory 126 (1): 97-119
5.
Discrete
Public Goods under Threshold Uncertainty, 2006,
Journal of
Public Economics 90 (6-7): 1181-1199
6.
Limited
Observation in Mutual Consent Networks, 2006,
Advances in
Theoretical Economics 6 (1): Article 3
7.
Club
Mormon:
Free-riders, Monitoring, and Exclusion in the LDS Church, 2007,
Rationality
and Society 19 (4): 395-424
8.
Position-specific
Information in Social Networks: Are You Connected?, 2008,
Mathematical Social Sciences 56
(2):
283-295
Technical
Appendix to "Position-specific
Information in Social Networks: Are You Connected?" (96KB)
9. Religious
Pluralism and Religious Participation: A Game Theoretic Analysis,
2008, American Journal of
Sociology 114 (1): 77-108
10. Religious
Market Competition
in a Richer World, forthcoming, Economica
(354KB)
11.
Religion,
Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild, 2009, with
Gary
Richardson (UCI),
Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization 71 (2): 172-186 (formerly
NBER Working Paper 14004)
12.
Threshold
Uncertainty in Discrete Public Good Games: An Experimental Study
, 2009, forthcoming,
Economics of
Governance
Other
peer-reviewed publications
13. Explaining
Conflict in Low-income Countries: Incomplete
Contracting in the Shadow of the Future, with Stergios
Skaperdas (UCI), 2007, in Konrad and Gradstein, eds., Institutions
and Norms in Economic Development, MIT Press
Working
papers
14. Why
Churches Need Free-riders: Religious Capital
Formation and Religious Group Survival
(August 2007, 289KB)
15. Money,
Happiness, and Aspirations: An Experimental Study
(October 2009, 219KB)
16. Conflict,
Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future,
with Stergios Skaperdas (UCI) (May 2009, 303KB)
17. Experienced
Utility versus Decision Utility: Putting the 'S' in Satisfaction,
with Steven Carter (UCI) (June 2009, 274KB)
18. Peace and War with Endogenous
State Capacity,
with Gary Milante (World Bank) and Stergios Skaperdas (UCI) (Septembe
2009, 231KB)