
Qualifications
Research Interests
I conduct research in applied microeconomic areas, often with a policy emphasis. Examples include the effectiveness of school funding for disadvantaged students, the incentives for pharmaceutical companies regarding the release of drugs with unknown long term effects, the effects of rising house prices on fertility, and the effects of rising social diversity on people's volunteering, donations to local schools, and tax compliance.
With equal emphasis, I use lab experiments to test ideas relevant for environmental economics or development. Examples include testing whether revenue sharing makes group liability microfinance work better for higher risk business start ups in developing countries, whether stakeholders in land and resource-use conflicts can successfully bargain to efficient solutions in place of government policy-setting, and whether environmental valuation techniques such as contingent valuation are reliable. I am currently looking at how the efficiency achieved by pollution control policies typically favoured by economists can be undermined by their perceived inequity when the policies are weakly enforced.
Recent Publications
- Clark J. and Ferrer A. (2019) The effect of house prices on fertility: evidence from Canada. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 38: 1-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2019-38.
- Hilmawan R. and Clark J. (2019) An investigation of the resource curse in Indonesia. Resources Policy 64 101483: 101483-101483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101483.
- Badeeb RA., Lean HH. and Clark J. (2017) The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis: A critical literature survey. Resources Policy 51: 123-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.10.015.
- Clark J., Garces-Ozanne A. and Knowles S. (2017) Emphasising the Problem or the Solution in Charitable Fundraising for International Development. The Journal of Development Studies Early access online: 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2017.1308490.
- Clark JE., Das S. and Menclova A. (2017) Evaluating the effectiveness of school funding and targeting different measures of student disadvantage: Evidence from New Zealand. Economic Record 93(303): 576-599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12354.