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University of Peradeniya → Department of Economics and Statistics

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Working papers

2019

  1. Darshana Rajapaksa & Robert Gifford & Benno Torgler & María A. García-Valiñas & Wasantha Athukorala & Shunsuke Managi & Clevo Wilson, 2019, "Do monetary and non-monetary incentives influence environmental attitudes and behavior? Evidence from an experimental analysis," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-03191523, Oct, DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.05.034.

2018

  1. Gunewardena,Dileni N. & King,Elizabeth M. & Valerio,Alexandria, 2018, "More Than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill Are Available," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 8588, Sep.

2010

  1. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2010, "Enterprise recovery following natural disasters," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 5269, Apr.

2009

  1. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2009, "Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3962, Jan.

2008

  1. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2008, "Are women more credit constrained ? experimental evidence on gender and microenterprise returns," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 4746, Oct.
  2. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2008, "Who Are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 3511, May.
  3. Dileni Gunewardena & Darshi Abeyrathna & Amalie Ellagala & Kamani Rajakaruna & Shobana Rajendran, 2008, "Glass Ceilings, Sticky Floors or Sticky Doors? A Quantile Regression Approach to Exploring Gender Wage Gaps in Sri Lanka," Working Papers PMMA, PEP-PMMA, number 2008-04.
  4. Harsha Aturupane & Anil B. Deolalikar & Dileni Gunewardena, 2008, "The Determinants of Child Weight and Height in Sri Lanka: A Quantile Regression Approach," WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER), number RP2008-53.
  5. Tilak Abeysinghe & Ananda Jayawickrama, 2008, "Singaporeã¢Â‚¬Â„¢S Direct Investment In Sri Lanka : Past Experience And Future Prospects," Microeconomics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, number 22559, Jan.

2007

  1. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2007, "Returns to capital in microenterprises : evidence from a field experiment," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 4230, May.
  2. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2007, "Measuring microenterprise profits : don't ask how the sausage is made," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 4229, May.
  3. Tilak Abeysinghe & Ananda Jayawickrama, 2007, "Singaporeã¢Â‚¬Â„¢S Recurrent Budget Surplus The Role Of Conservative Growth Forecasts," Macroeconomics Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, number 22557, Jan.

2006

  1. Ananda Jayawickrama & Tilak Abeysinghe, 2006, "Sustainability of Fiscal Deficits : The US Experience 1929-2004," Governance Working Papers, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research, number 21924, Nov.

2004

  1. Gunewardena, Dileni, 2004, "Improving poverty measurement in Sri Lanka," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 7695, Feb, revised May 2005.

2000

  1. Gunewardena, Dileni & Van de Walle, Dominique, 2000, "Sources of ethnic inequality in Vietnam," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 2297, Mar.

1999

  1. Alan G. Isaac & Suresh de Mel, 1999, "The Real Interest Differential Model after Twenty Years," International Finance, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 9907002, Jul.

1998

  1. van de Walle, Dominique & Gunewardena, Dileni, 1998, "How dirty are"quick and dirty"methods of project appraisal?," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 1908, Apr.

1997

  1. Datt, Gaurav & Gunewardena, Dileni, 1997, "Some aspects of poverty in Sri Lanka : 1985-90," Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank, number 1738, Mar.

Undated

  1. Wasantha Athukorala & Muditha Karunarathna, undated, "Conservation of Genetic Resources of Crops: Farmer Preferences for Banana Diversity in Sri Lanka," Working papers, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics, number 112.

Journal articles

2022

  1. Wasantha Athukorala & Muditha Karunarathna & Saman Yapa Bandara, 2022, "Estimating Health Impacts of Pesticides Use: New Evidence from Vegetable Farmers in Sri Lanka," Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, Biomedical Research Network+, LLC, volume 41, issue 2, pages 32473-32481, January, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.41.006565.

2021

  1. Clevo Wilson & Wasantha Athukorala & Benno Torgler & Robert Gifford & Maria A. Garcia-Valiñas & Shunsuke Managi, 2021, "Willingness to pay to ensure a continuous water supply with minimum restrictions," Empirical Economics, Springer, volume 61, issue 3, pages 1519-1537, September, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-020-01955-8.

2020

  1. Athukorala, Wasantha & Karunarathna, Muditha & Wilson, Clevo & Managi, Shunsuke, 2020, "Conservation of Genetic Resources of Crops: Farmer Preferences for Banana Diversity in Sri Lanka," Journal of Forest Economics, now publishers, volume 35, issue 2-3, pages 177-206, March, DOI: 10.1561/112.00000513.
  2. Dileni Gunewardena & Abdoulaye Seck, 2020, "Heterogeneity in entrepreneurship in developing countries: Risk, credit, and migration and the entrepreneurial propensity of youth and women," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, volume 24, issue 3, pages 713-725, August, DOI: 10.1111/rode.12703.

2019

  1. Athukorala, Wasantha & Martin, Wade & Wilson, Clevo & Rajapaksa, Darshana, 2019, "Valuing bushfire risk to homeowners: Hedonic property values study in Queensland, Australia," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, volume 63, issue C, pages 44-56, DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2019.04.013.
  2. Athukorala, Wasantha & Wilson, Clevo & Managi, Shunsuke & Karunarathna, Muditha, 2019, "Household demand for electricity: The role of market distortions and prices in competition policy," Energy Policy, Elsevier, volume 134, issue C, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110932.
  3. Hein, Walter & Wilson, Clevo & Lee, Boon & Rajapaksa, Darshana & de Moel, Hans & Athukorala, Wasantha & Managi, Shunsuke, 2019, "Climate change and natural disasters: Government mitigation activities and public property demand response," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, volume 82, issue C, pages 436-443, DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.026.

2018

  1. Darshana Rajapaksa & Wasantha Athukorala & Shunsuke Managi & Prasad Neelawala & Boon Lee & Viet-Ngu Hoang & Clevo Wilson, 2018, "The impact of cell phone towers on house prices: evidence from Brisbane, Australia," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, volume 20, issue 1, pages 211-224, January, DOI: 10.1007/s10018-017-0190-9.
  2. Shyama Ratnasiri & Clevo Wilson & Wasantha Athukorala & Maria A. Garcia-Valiñas & Benno Torgler & Robert Gifford, 2018, "Effectiveness of two pricing structures on urban water use and conservation: a quasi-experimental investigation," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, volume 20, issue 3, pages 547-560, July, DOI: 10.1007/s10018-017-0205-6.
  3. Muditha Karunarathna & Wasantha Athukorala, 2018, "The Determinants Of Investment On Floods Mitigation Activities: An Empirical Investigation In Sri Lanka," Journal of Smart Economic Growth, , volume 3, issue 3, pages 37-59, December.

2017

  1. Athukorala, Wasantha & Wilson, Clevo & Managi, Shunsuke, 2017, "Social welfare losses from groundwater over-extraction for small-scale agriculture in Sri Lanka: Environmental concern for land use," Journal of Forest Economics, Elsevier, volume 29, issue PA, pages 47-55, DOI: 10.1016/j.jfe.2017.04.002.
  2. Wasantha Athukorala & Clevo Wilson, 2017, "Distributional impacts of irrigation-induced agricultural development in a semi-subsistence economy: new evidence," Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Springer;Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - SEEPS, volume 19, issue 1, pages 59-75, January, DOI: 10.1007/s10018-015-0139-9.

2016

  1. Wasantha Athukorala & Wade Martin & Prasad Neelawala & Darshana Rajapaksa & Clevo Wilson, 2016, "Impact Of Wildfires And Floods On Property Values: A Before And After Analysis," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., volume 61, issue 01, pages 1-23, March, DOI: 10.1142/S0217590816400026.

2014

  1. Maria A. Garcia-Valiñas & Wasantha Athukorala & Clevo Wilson & Benno Torgler & Robert Gifford, 2014, "Nondiscretionary residential water use: the impact of habits and water-efficient technologies," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, volume 58, issue 2, pages 185-204, April.

2013

  1. Neelawala, Prasad & Wilson, Clevo & Athukorala, Wasantha, 2013, "The impact of mining and smelting activities on property values: a study of Mount Isa city, Queensland, Australia," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, volume 57, issue 01, pages 1-19, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.233838.
  2. Athukorala, Wasantha, 2013, "Health Benefits and Industrial Air Pollution: A Comparison between People’s Willingness to Accept and the Opportunity Cost of Health Risk," Sri Lankan Journal of Agricultural Economics, Sri Lanka Agricultural Economics Association (SAEA), volume 14, pages 1-17, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.205985.
  3. Ananda Jayawickrama & Tilak Abeysinghe, 2013, "The experience of some OECD economies on tax smoothing," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, volume 45, issue 16, pages 2305-2313, June, DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2012.663472.
  4. Tilak Abeysinghe & Ananda Jayawickrama, 2013, "A segmented trend model to assess fiscal sustainability: The US experience 1929–2009," Empirical Economics, Springer, volume 44, issue 3, pages 1129-1141, June, DOI: 10.1007/s00181-012-0584-2.

2012

  1. Wasantha Athukorala & Clevo Wilson & Tim Robinson, 2012, "Determinants of Health Costs due to Farmers’ Exposure to Pesticides: An Empirical Analysis," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, volume 63, issue 1, pages 158-174, February, DOI: j.1477-9552.2011.00326.x.

2010

  1. P.P.A Wasantha Athukorala, 2010, "Book Review - Carbon sinks and climate change: forests in the fight against global warming, C.A. Hunt, Edward Elgar, 2009, 236 pages, ISBN 978-1-84720-977-1," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, volume 40, issue 2, pages 275-278, September.
  2. Wasantha Athukorala & Clevo Wilson & Prasad Neelawela & Evonne Miller & Tony Sahama & Peter Grace & Mike Hefferan & Premawansa Dissanayake & Oshan Manawadu, 2010, "Forecasting Population Changes and Service Requirements in the Regions: A Study of Two Regional Councils in Queensland, Australia," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, volume 40, issue 3, pages 327-349, December.
  3. Athukorala, P.P.A Wasantha & Wilson, Clevo, 2010, "Estimating short and long-term residential demand for electricity: New evidence from Sri Lanka," Energy Economics, Elsevier, volume 32, issue Supplemen, pages 34-40, September.
  4. Suresh de Mel & David McKenzie & Christopher Woodruff, 2010, "Wage Subsidies for Microenterprises," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, volume 100, issue 2, pages 614-618, May, DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.2.614.
  5. Ananda Jayawickrama & Shandre M. Thangavelu, 2010, "Trade linkages between China, India and Singapore," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, volume 37, issue 3, pages 248-266, August, DOI: 10.1108/01443581011061267.

2009

  1. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David J. & Woodruff, Christopher, 2009, "Measuring microenterprise profits: Must we ask how the sausage is made?," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 88, issue 1, pages 19-31, January.
  2. Suresh de Mel & David McKenzie & Christopher Woodruff, 2009, "Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, volume 1, issue 3, pages 1-32, July.
  3. J.M. Ananda Jayawickrama, 2009, "Modelling Trade Sector and Trade Shocks in a Small Open Economy," South Asia Economic Journal, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, volume 10, issue 1, pages 81-103, January, DOI: 10.1177/139156140901000104.

2008

  1. de Mel, Suresh & McKenzie, David & Woodruff, Christopher, 2008, "Mental health recovery and economic recovery after the tsunami: High-frequency longitudinal evidence from Sri Lankan small business owners," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, volume 66, issue 3, pages 582-595, February.
  2. Abeysinghe, Tilak & Jayawickrama, Ananda, 2008, "Singapore's recurrent budget surplus: The role of conservative growth forecasts," Journal of Asian Economics, Elsevier, volume 19, issue 2, pages 117-124, April.
  3. Ananda Jayawickrama, 2008, "An Examination of the Resiliency of Sri Lanka's Tax System," South Asia Economic Journal, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, volume 9, issue 2, pages 351-373, September, DOI: 10.1177/139156140800900205.

2001

  1. Isaac, Alan G. & de Mel, Suresh, 2001, "The real-interest-differential model after 20 years," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, volume 20, issue 4, pages 473-495, August.
  2. van de Walle, Dominique & Gunewardena, Dileni, 2001, "Sources of ethnic inequality in Viet Nam," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, volume 65, issue 1, pages 177-207, June.
  3. Dominique van de Walle & Dileni Gunewardena, 2001, "Does Ignoring Heterogeneity in Impacts Distort Project Appraisals? An Experiment for Irrigation in Vietnam," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, volume 15, issue 1, pages 141-14-164.

Chapters

2018

  1. Wasantha Athukorala & Wade Martin & Prasad Neelawala & Darshana Rajapaksa & Jeremy Webb & Clevo Wilson, 2018, "Impact Of Natural Disasters On Residential Property Values: Evidence From Australia," World Scientific Book Chapters, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., chapter 6, in: Suman Kumari Sharma & Euston Quah, "Economics of Natural Disasters".

2010

  1. Suresh de Mel & David McKenzie & Christopher Woodruff, 2010, "Who are the Microenterprise Owners? Evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman versus De Soto," NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, "International Differences in Entrepreneurship".

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