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Lata Gangadharan is a Professor of Economics at Monash University in Australia. She is an experimental economist whose research interests are in understanding and designing appropriate institutions for the environment and for development.  In recent years she has conducted experiments to understand: varying propensity for corruption, appropriate institutions for credit provision in developing countries, trust and trustworthiness between individuals in economic transactions, charitable giving and selection into labour market programmes in developing countries. Her work has been funded by the Australian Research Council and by grants from AusAID. Some of her recent work has been published in the American Economic Review, Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. More information about her research is available at the following website: http://www.monash.edu.au/research/people/profiles/profile.html?sid=34317&pid=5335