NBER Papers in JEL Code O1: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - Economic Development

2022
w29950 Thomas Philippon
Additive Growth
w29924 James A. Robinson
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa
w29923 James Dzansi
Anders Jensen
David Lagakos
Henry Telli

Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana
w29911 Pascaline Dupas
Marcel Fafchamps
Deivy Houeix

Measuring Relative Poverty through Peer Rankings: Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire
w29895 Mark Bils
Bariş Kaymak
Kai-Jie Wu

Labor Substitutability among Schooling Groups
w29862 Gaurav Khanna
Emir Murathanoglu
Caroline B. Theoharides
Dean Yang

Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
w29843 Michael L. Anderson
Jeremy Magruder

Highly Powered Analysis Plans
w29834 Berthold Herrendorf
Richard Rogerson
Ákos Valentinyi

New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity: Implications for Industrialization and Development
w29830 Brian McCaig
Minh Nguyen
Robert Kaestner

Export Expansion and Investment in Children's Human Capital: Evidence from the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement
w29816 Patrick Agte
Arielle Bernhardt
Erica M. Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock
w29814 Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Seema Jayachandran

Improving Willingness-to-Pay Elicitation by Including a Benchmark Good
w29813 Jing Cai
Adam Szeidl

Indirect Effects of Access to Finance
w29810 Frances R. Lu
Tom Vogl

Intergenerational Persistence in Child Mortality
w29806 Tomohiro Hirano
Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Wobbly Economy: Global Dynamics with Phase and State Transitions
w29804 Nathan Nunn
On the Dynamics of Human Behavior: The Past, Present, and Future of Culture, Conflict, and Cooperation
w29797 Andrew D. Foster
Mark R. Rosenzweig

Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
w29796 Debraj Ray
Garance Genicot

Measuring Upward Mobility
w29773 Joseph P. Kaboski
Molly Lipscomb
Virgiliu Midrigan
Carolyn Pelnik

How Important are Investment Indivisibilities for Development? Experimental Evidence from Uganda
w29758 Sandra García
Juan Saavedra

Conditional Cash Transfers for Education
w29756 Frederico Finan
Demian Pouzo

Reinforcing RCTs with Multiple Priors while Learning about External Validity
w29752 Daniel J. Agness
Travis Baseler
Sylvain Chassang
Pascaline Dupas
Erik Snowberg

Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed
w29749 Fernando M. Aragón
Diego Restuccia
Juan Pablo Rud

Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture: Plots versus Farms
w29745 Tomohiro Hirano
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Land Speculation and Wobbly Dynamics with Endogenous Phase Transitions
w29731 Zhiguo He
Bibo Liu
Feifei Zhu

Share Pledging in China: Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship?
w29721 Laura Alfaro
Cathy Ge Bao
Maggie X. Chen
Junjie Hong
Claudia Steinwender

Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era
w29718 Michael Coury
Toru Kitagawa
Allison Shertzer
Matthew Turner

The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
w29695 Etienne Le Rossignol
Sara Lowes
Nathan Nunn

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior
w29692 Christopher Blattman
Gustavo Duncan
Benjamin Lessing
Santiago Tobon

State-building on the Margin: An Urban Experiment in Medellín
w29671 Erica M. Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Simone G. Schaner
Elena M. Stacy
Charity M. Troyer Moore

Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting: Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module
w29666 Tasso Adamopoulos
Loren Brandt
Chaoran Chen
Diego Restuccia
Xiaoyun Wei

Land Security and Mobility Frictions
w29644 Diego A. Comin
Marcio Cruz
Xavier Cirera
Kyung Min Lee
Jesica Torres

Technology and Resilience
w29643 Martin Fiszbein
Yeonha Jung
Dietrich Vollrath

Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism
w29627 Emanuele Colonnelli
Spyridon Lagaras
Jacopo Ponticelli
Mounu Prem
Margarita Tsoutsoura

Revealing Corruption: Firm and Worker Level Evidence from Brazil
2021
w29617 Daniel E. Sichel
The Price of Nails since 1695: A Window into Economic Change
w29610 Akshaya Jha
Louis Preonas
Fiona Burlig

Blackouts in the Developing World: The Role of Wholesale Electricity Markets
w29597 Arpit Gupta
Anup Malani
Bartosz Woda

Inequality in India Declined During COVID
w29594 Joshua Aizenman
Yothin Jinjarak
Hien Nguyen
Donghyun Park

International Evidence of Strengthening Taxes and Spending For Sustainable Development
w29589 Giorgio Chiovelli
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou
Sandra Sequeira

Forced Displacement and Human Capital: Evidence from Separated Siblings
w29588 Samuel Bazzi
Lisa Cameron
Simone G. Schaner
Firman Witoelar

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration
w29584 David Sungho Park
Shilpa Aggarwal
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
Jonathan Robinson
Alan Spearot

Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi
w29576 Anup Malani
Phoebe Holtzman
Kosuke Imai
Cynthia Kinnan
Morgen Miller
Shailender Swaminathan
Alessandra Voena
Bartosz Woda
Gabriella Conti

Effect of Health Insurance in India: A Randomized Controlled Trial
w29573 Valentina Brailovskaya
Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi
w29571 Taryn Dinkelman
L. Rachel Ngai

Time Use and Gender in Africa in Times of Structural Transformation
w29570 Margaret S. McMillan
Albert Zeufack

Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa
w29566 Ricardo Godoy
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms: Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society
w29542 Sanghamitra W. Mukherjee
Lauren F. Bergquist
Marshall Burke
Edward Miguel

Unlocking the Benefits of Credit through Saving
w29537 Michela Giorcelli
Nicola Bianchi

Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy
w29518 Jenny C. Aker
Kelsey Jack

Harvesting the Rain: The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel
w29500 David Atkin
Arnaud Costinot
Masao Fukui

Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom?
w29484 Michael Kremer
Jack Willis
Yang You

Converging to Convergence
w29483 Michael Sposi
Kei-Mu Yi
Jing Zhang

Deindustrialization and Industry Polarization
w29480 Matthew J. Delventhal
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Nezih Guner

Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space
w29469 D. Layne Coppock
Lucas Crowley
Susan L. Durham
Dylan Groves
Julian C. Jamison
Dean Karlan
Brien E. Norton
R. Douglas Ramsey

Cooperation in the Commons: Community-based Rangeland Management in Namibia
w29461 Eric Verhoogen
Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
w29447 Johannes Haushofer
Michael Kremer
Ricardo Maertens
Brandon Joel Tan

Water Treatment and Child Mortality: Evidence from Kenya
w29440 Santosh Anagol
Fernando V. Ferreira
Jonah M. Rexer

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform
w29427 Natalia Rigol
Benjamin N. Roth

Loan Officers Impede Graduation from Microfinance: Strategic Disclosure in a Large Microfinance Institution
w29418 Gordon H. Hanson
Chen Liu

Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
w29407 Nathan Barker
Gharad T. Bryan
Dean Karlan
Angela Ofori-Atta
Christopher R. Udry

Mental Health Therapy as a Core Strategy for Increasing Human Capital: Evidence from Ghana
w29404 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

The Economic Consequences of the Opium War
w29390 Tommaso Porzio
Federico Rossi
Gabriella V. Santangelo

The Human Side of Structural Transformation
w29386 Gabriel Garber
Atif R. Mian
Jacopo Ponticelli
Amir Sufi

Household Credit as Stimulus? Evidence from Brazil
w29383 Martin Ravallion
Shaohua Chen

Fleshing Out the Olive? On Income Polarization in China
w29363 Marijn A. Bolhuis
Swapnika R. Rachapalli
Diego Restuccia

Misallocation in Indian Agriculture
w29362 Orazio Attanasio
Sarah Cattan
Costas Meghir

Early Childhood Development, Human Capital and Poverty
w29340 Clare A. Balboni
Oriana Bandiera
Robin Burgess
Maitreesh Ghatak
Anton Heil

Why do people stay poor?
w29339 Edward Miguel
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries
w29333 Michael Peters
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development
w29329 Michael Peters
Market Size and Spatial Growth - Evidence from Germany's Post-War Population Expulsions
w29326 Gary B. Gorton
Ping He

Economic Growth and Bank Innovation
w29311 Gharad T. Bryan
Dean Karlan
Adam Osman

Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment
w29297 Christopher Ksoll
Rocco Macchiavello
Ameet Morjaria

Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
w29295 Joshua W. Deutschmann
Jared E. Gars
Jean-François Houde
Molly Lipscomb
Laura A. Schechter

Privatization of Public Goods: Evidence from the Sanitation Sector in Senegal
w29294 M. Mehrab Bakhtiar
Raymond Guiteras
James A. Levinsohn
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Social and Financial Incentives for Overcoming a Collective Action Problem
w29284 Bernadette A. Minton
Alvaro G. Taboada
Rohan Williamson

Bank Mergers, Acquirer Choice and Small Business Lending: Implications for Community Investment
w29263 Jaedo Choi
Andrei A. Levchenko

The Long-Term Effects of Industrial Policy
w29252 Minho Kim
Munseob Lee
Yongseok Shin

The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy: The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973
w29237 Nathan Ratledge
Gabriel Cadamuro
Brandon De la Cuesta
Matthieu Stigler
Marshall Burke

Using Satellite Imagery and Machine Learning to Estimate the Livelihood Impact of Electricity Access
w29234 Stephen R. Boucher
Michael R. Carter
Jon Einar Flatnes
Travis J. Lybbert
Jonathan G. Malacarne
Paswel Marenya
Laura A. Paul

Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies for More Resilient and Productive Small-scale Agriculture
w29221 Viva Ona Bartkus
Wyatt Brooks
Joseph P. Kaboski
Carolyn E. Pelnik

Big Fish in Thin Markets: Competing with the Middlemen to Increase Market Access in the Amazon
w29218 Ari Bronsoler
Joseph J. Doyle Jr.
John Van Reenen

The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers
w29199 Martin Ravallion
Shaohua Chen

Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
w29194 Sunghun Lim
Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation
w29191 Seema Jayachandran
How Economic Development Influences the Environment
w29163 Timothy J. Besley
Robin Burgess
Adnan Khan
Guo Xu

Bureaucracy and Development
w29154 Nicholas Ryan
Holding Up Green Energy
w29146 Shinsuke Tanaka
Kensuke Teshima
Eric Verhoogen

North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of Battery Recycling
w29121 Natalie Bau
Gaurav Khanna
Corinne Low
Manisha Shah
Sreyashi Sharmin
Alessandra Voena

Women's Well-Being During a Pandemic and its Containment
w29107 Zadia M. Feliciano
Meng-Ting Chen

Intangible Assets, Corporate Taxes and the Relocation of Pharmaceutical Establishments: The case of Puerto Rico
w29105 Luna Yue Huang
Solomon M. Hsiang
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs
w29099 Alexander Bick
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
David Lagakos
Hitoshi Tsujiyama

Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked
w29089 Andrei Markevich
Natalya Naumenko
Nancy Qian

The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33
w29077 Peter Arcidiacono
Karthik Muralidharan
Eun-young Shim
John D. Singleton

Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers: Part I
w29070 Emily Aiken
Suzanne Bellue
Dean Karlan
Christopher R. Udry
Joshua Blumenstock

Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
w29068 Matteo Bobba
Tim Ederer
Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta
Christopher Neilson
Marco G. Nieddu

Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru
w29061 Julieta Caunedo
Namrata Kala

Mechanizing Agriculture
w29059 Miguel Almunia
Jonas Hjort
Justine Knebelmann
Lin Tian

Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from "Missing" Transactions in Uganda
w29052 Nina Buchmann
Erica M. Field
Rachel Glennerster
Shahana Nazneen
Xiao Yu Wang

A Signal to End Child Marriage: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
w29018 Witold Więcek
Amrita Ahuja
Michael Kremer
Alexandre Simoes Gomes
Christopher Snyder
Alex Tabarrok
Brandon Joel Tan

Could Vaccine Dose Stretching Reduce COVID-19 Deaths?
w29007 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson

Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions
w28995 Christoph Albert
Paula Bustos
Jacopo Ponticelli

The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation
w28994 Nan Li
Chris Papageorgiou
Tong Xu
Tao Zha

The S-curve: Understanding the Dynamics of Worldwide Financial Liberalization
w28986 Brian McCaig
Nina Pavcnik

Entry and Exit of Informal Firms and Development
w28979 Ana Paula Franco
Sebastian Galiani
Pablo Lavado

Long-term effects of the Inca Road
w28977 Wyatt Brooks
Joseph P. Kaboski
Illenin O. Kondo
Yao Amber Li
Wei Qian

Infrastructure Investment and Labor Monopsony Power
w28972 Pascaline Dupas
Radhika Jain

Women Left Behind: Gender Disparities in Utilization of Government Health Insurance in India
w28960 John Cawley
Michael R. Daly
Rebecca Thornton

The Effect of Beverage Taxes on Youth Consumption and BMI: Evidence from Mauritius
w28937 Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer

The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana
w28935 Arpit Gupta
Anup Malani
Bartek Woda

Explaining the Income and Consumption Effects of COVID in India
w28928 Vittorio Bassi
Raffaela Muoio
Tommaso Porzio
Ritwika Sen
Esau Tugume

Achieving Scale Collectively
w28918 Natalie Bau
Raquel Fernández

The Family as a Social Institution
w28865 Chong-En Bai
Ruixue Jia
Hongbin Li
Xin Wang

Entrepreneurial Reluctance: Talent and Firm Creation in China
w28845 Laura Chioda
David Contreras-Loya
Paul Gertler
Dana Carney

Making Entrepreneurs: Returns to Training Youth in Hard Versus Soft Business Skills
w28844 John J. Conlon
Malavika Mani
Gautam Rao
Matthew W. Ridley
Frank Schilbach

Learning in the Household
w28833 Nicola Bianchi
Michela Giorcelli

The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program
w28830 Zhibo Tan
Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang

Deadly Discrimination: Implications of "Missing Girls" for Workplace Safety
w28821 Eduardo Montero
Dean Yang

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals
w28818 Susanna B. Berkouwer
Pierre E. Biscaye
Steven L. Puller
Catherine Wolfram

Disbursing Emergency Relief through Utilities: Evidence from Ghana
w28814 Edward L. Glaeser
What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?
w28794 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Chicheng Ma
Yuchen Xu

The Legal Origins of Financial Development: Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
w28792 Sebastian Heise
Tommaso Porzio

The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
w28780 Alejandro J. Ganimian
Karthik Muralidharan
Christopher R. Walters

Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India
w28740 Joshua Aizenman
Yothin Jinjarak
Hien Thi Kim Nguyen
Donghyun Park

Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development: Some International Evidence
w28728 Martin Ravallion
On the Welfare Gains from Tradeable Benefits-in-Kind
w28726 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Suresh Dalpath
Esther Duflo
John Floretta
Matthew O. Jackson
Harini Kannan
Francine N. Loza
Anirudh Sankar
Anna Schrimpf
Maheshwor Shrestha

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
w28724 Paul Gertler
Brett Green
Catherine Wolfram

Digital Collateral
w28720 George A. Alessandria
Robert C. Johnson
Kei-Mu Yi

Perspectives on Trade and Structural Transformation
w28708 Jialin Huang
Jianwei Xing
Eric Zou

(Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure: The Case of Surgery Schedules
w28699 Fiona Burlig
Anant Sudarshan
Garrison Schlauch

The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
w28686 Brian G. Knight
Maria Mercedes Ponce de Leon
Ana Tribin

Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota "Pico y Genero" Lockdown
w28685 Cecilia R. Caglio
R. Matthew Darst
Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan

Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from Loans to SMEs and Large Firms
w28683 Frederico Finan
Maurizio Mazzocco

Combating Political Corruption with Policy Bundles
w28667 Ying Bai
Ruixue Jia
Jiaojiao Yang

The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization
w28664 Marianne Bertrand
Bruno Crépon
Alicia Marguerie
Patrick Premand

Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire
w28656 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Ricardo Marto

The Great Transition: Kuznets Facts for Family-Economists
w28655 Benjamin Marx
Vincent Pons
Tavneet Suri

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
w28651 James Allen IV
Arlete Mahumane
James Riddell IV
Tanya Rosenblat
Dean Yang
Hang Yu

Correcting Perceived Social Distancing Norms to Combat COVID-19
w28643 Emily Breza
Supreet Kaur
Yogita Shamdasani

Labor Rationing
w28641 Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Elan Satriawan
Sudarno Sumarto

Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
w28640 Aloisio Araujo
Rafael Ferreira
Spyridon Lagaras
Flavio Moraes
Jacopo Ponticelli
Margarita Tsoutsoura

The Labor Effects of Pro-labor Bias in Bankruptcy
w28635 Tiago V. Cavalcanti
Joseph P. Kaboski
Bruno S. Martins
Cezar Santos

Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development
w28626 Seema Jayachandran
Monica Biradavolu
Jan Cooper

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
w28623 Paul Bouscasse
Emi Nakamura
Jón Steinsson

When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870
w28611 Lasse Brune
Eric Chyn
Jason T. Kerwin

Pay Me Later: Savings Constraints and the Demand for Deferred Payments
w28610 Andres Gonzalez-Lira
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation when Agents Learn and Adapt
w28607 David McKenzie
Aakash Mohpal
Dean Yang

Aspirations and Financial Decisions: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
w28606 John M. Barrios
Yael Hochberg
Daniele Macciocchi

Rugged Entrepreneurs: The Geographic and Cultural Contours of New Business Formation
w28603 Soeren J. Henn
James A. Robinson

Africa's Latent Assets
w28582 Yan Ji
Songyuan Teng
Robert Townsend

Branch Expansion versus Digital Banking: The Dynamics of Growth and Inequality in a Spatial Equilibrium Model
w28561 Francisco J. Buera
Hugo Hopenhayn
Yongseok Shin
Nicholas Trachter

Big Push in Distorted Economies
w28552 Stephanie Riegg Cellini
Hernando Grueso

Student Learning in Online College Programs
w28551 Tianyu Fan
Michael Peters
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Service-Led or Service-Biased Growth? Equilibrium Development Accounting across Indian Districts
w28547 Ruixue Jia
Xiaohuan Lan
Gerard Padró I Miquel

Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses
w28536 Alina Carare
Carlos de Resende
Andrew T. Levin
Chelsea Zhang

Do Monetary Policy Frameworks Matter in Low Income Countries?
w28507 Lucie Gadenne
Samuel Norris
Monica Singhal
Sandip Sukhtankar

In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
w28504 Isaac Ehrlich
Yun Pei

Endogenous Immigration, Human and Physical Capital Formation, and the Immigration Surplus
w28492 Amrita Ahuja
Susan Athey
Arthur Baker
Eric Budish
Juan Camilo Castillo
Rachel Glennerster
Scott Duke Kominers
Michael Kremer
Jean Nahrae Lee
Canice Prendergast
Christopher M. Snyder
Alex Tabarrok
Brandon Joel Tan
Witold Więcek

Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability
w28488 Alberto Bisin
Jared Rubin
Avner Seror
Thierry Verdier

Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
w28486 Gaurav Chiplunkar
Pinelopi K. Goldberg

Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship
w28462 Guilhem Cassan
Daniel Keniston
Tatjana Kleineberg

A Division of Laborers: Identity and Efficiency in India
w28458 Christopher Blattman
Gustavo Duncan
Benjamin Lessing
Santiago Tobón

Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
w28423 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski
Robert M. Townsend

From Micro to Macro Development
w28411 Randall Morck
Kindleberger Cycles: Method in the madness of crowds?
w28403 Ruixue Jia
Gérard Roland
Yang Xie

A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility: China vs. Europe Revisited
w28401 Gaurav Khanna
Wenquan Liang
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Ran Song

The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
w28393 Edward Asiedu
Dean Karlan
Monica P. Lambon-Quayefio
Christopher R. Udry

A Call for Structured Ethics Appendices in Social Science Papers
w28392 Angus Deaton
COVID-19 and Global Income Inequality
w28391 Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Costas Meghir
Gabriel Ulyssea

Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
w28365 Abhijit Banerjee
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson
Cynthia Kinnan

Changes in Social Network Structure in Response to Exposure to Formal Credit Markets
w28344 Xinshen Diao
Mia Ellis
Margaret S. McMillan
Dani Rodrik

Africa's Manufacturing Puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian Firms
w28338 Supreet Kaur
Sendhil Mullainathan
Suanna Oh
Frank Schilbach

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?
w28336 Renata Lemos
Karthik Muralidharan
Daniela Scur

Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India
w28323 Nicolás de Roux
Marcela Eslava
Santiago Franco
Eric Verhoogen

Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
w28316 Anne E. Fitzpatrick
Sabrin A. Beg
Laura C. Derksen
Anne Karing
Jason T. Kerwin
Adrienne Lucas
Natalia Ordaz Reynoso
Munir Squires

Health Knowledge and Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa
2020
w28299 Zach Y. Brown
Eduardo Montero
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
w28270 Alberto Alesina
Sebastian Hohmann
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
w28262 Seth Garz
Xavier Giné
Dean Karlan
Rafe Mazer
Caitlin Sanford
Jonathan Zinman

Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives
w28251 Réka Juhász
Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Away from Home and Back: Coordinating (Remote) Workers in 1800 and 2020
w28249 Emily Breza
Martin Kanz
Leora F. Klapper

Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts
w28224 Ted Fertik
Naomi R. Lamoreaux

World War I and the Restructuring of International Business
w28180 Nicola Bianchi
Yi Lu
Hong Song

The Effect of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students' Long-Term Development
w28168 Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder

Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines
w28163 Bruno Conte
Klaus Desmet
Dávid Krisztián Nagy
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Local Sectoral Specialization in a Warming World
w28147 Shaohua Chen
Martin Ravallion

Reconciling the Conflicting Narratives on Poverty in China
w28129 Karthik Muralidharan
Abhijeet Singh

Improving Public Sector Management at Scale? Experimental Evidence on School Governance India
w28106 Johannes Haushofer
Robert Mudida
Jeremy P. Shapiro

The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being
w28100 Jie Bai
Maggie Chen
Jin Liu
Xiaosheng Mu
Daniel Yi Xu

Search and Information Frictions on Global E-Commerce Platforms: Evidence from AliExpress
w28089 Cynthia Kinnan
Krislert Samphantharak
Robert Townsend
Diego A. Vera Cossio

Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks
w28080 Xavier Cirera
Diego A. Comin
Marcio Cruz
Kyung Min Lee

Anatomy of Technology in the Firm
w28074 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Garima Sharma

Long-term Effects of the Targeting the Ultra Poor Program
w28070 J. Vernon Henderson
Adam Storeygard
David N. Weil

Quality-adjusted Population Density
w28069 Luis Dau
Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

Corporate Governance, Business Group Governance and Economic Development Traps
w28049 Alison Andrew
Orazio Attanasio
Britta Augsburg
Jere Behrman
Monimalika Day
Pamela Jervis
Costas Meghir
Angus Phimister

Mothers' Social Networks and Socioeconomic Gradients of Isolation
w28045 Esther Rolf
Jonathan Proctor
Tamma Carleton
Ian Bolliger
Vaishaal Shankar
Miyabi Ishihara
Benjamin Recht
Solomon Hsiang

A Generalizable and Accessible Approach to Machine Learning with Global Satellite Imagery
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Paul Gertler
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Promoting Parental Involvement in Schools: Evidence From Two Randomized Experiments
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Aaron Hedlund
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Ping Wang

Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
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Julian Jamison
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Jonathan Zinman

Does Lasting Behavior Change Require Knowledge Change? Evidence From Savings Interventions For Young Adults
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Dilip Mookherjee
Yingyue Quan
Xiaobo Zhang

Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China
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Pravin Krishna
Heiwai Tang

Input-Output Networks and Misallocation
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Adrien Matray

Misallocation and Capital Market Integration: Evidence From India
w27932 Shilpa Aggarwal
Dahyeon Jeong
Naresh Kumar
David Sungho Park
Jonathan Robinson
Alan Spearot

Did COVID-19 Market Disruptions Disrupt Food Security? Evidence from Households in Rural Liberia and Malawi
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The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution
w27910 Kyle Handley
Nuno Limão
Rodney D. Ludema
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Firm Input Choice Under Trade Policy Uncertainty
w27893 Sara Lowes
Eduardo Montero

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
w27887 Kehinde F. Ajayi
Willa H. Friedman
Adrienne M. Lucas

When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
w27879 Marshall Burke
Anne Driscoll
David Lobell
Stefano Ermon

Using Satellite Imagery to Understand and Promote Sustainable Development
w27871 Mara Faccio
John J. McConnell

Impediments to the Schumpeterian Process in the Replacement of Large Firms
w27870 Shawn Cole
Martin Melecky
Florian Mölders
Tristan Reed

Long-run Returns to Impact Investing in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies
w27839 Simeon Djankov
Edward L. Glaeser
Valeria Perotti
Andrei Shleifer

Measuring Property Rights Institutions
w27837 Treb Allen
Costas Arkolakis
Xiangliang Li

On the Equilibrium Properties of Network Models with Heterogeneous Agents
w27832 Nikita Melnikov
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
w27827 Nick Obradovich
Ömer Özak
Ignacio Martín
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín
Edmond Awad
Manuel Cebrián
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Iyad Rahwan
Ángel Cuevas

Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans
w27812 Orazio Attanasio
Raquel Bernal
Michele Giannola
Milagros Nores

Child Development in the Early Years: Parental Investment and the Changing Dynamics of Different Dimensions
w27799 Ila Fazzio
Alex Eble
Robin L. Lumsdaine
Peter Boone
Baboucarr Bouy
Pei-Tseng Jenny Hsieh
Chitra Jayanty
Simon Johnson
Ana Filipa Silva

Large Learning Gains in Pockets of Extreme Poverty: Experimental Evidence from Guinea Bissau
w27777 Robert K. Perrons
Adam B. Jaffe
Trinh Le

Tracing the Linkages Between Scientific Research and Energy Innovations: A Comparison of Clean and Dirty Technologies
w27767 Pei-Ju Liao
Ping Wang
Yin-Chi Wang
Chong Kee Yip

To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
w27750 Eric C. Edwards
Martin Fiszbein
Gary D. Libecap

Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization: An Argentina-United States Comparison
w27731 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski
Martí Mestieri
Daniel G. O'Connor

The Stable Transformation Path
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Ian Keay

Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization: Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
w27708 Anusha Chari
Peter Blair Henry
Hector Reyes

The Baker Hypothesis
w27696 Minu Philip
Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian

Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
w27680 Jing Cai
Shing-Yi Wang

Improving Management through Worker Evaluations: Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
w27679 Yuan Tian
Maria Esther Caballero
Brian K. Kovak

Social Learning along International Migrant Networks
w27678 Michael Callen
Saad Gulzar
Syed Ali Hasanain
Muhammad Yasir Khan
Arman B. Rezaee

Data and Policy Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
w27675 Anusha Chari
Jennifer S. Rhee

The Return to Capital in Capital-Scarce Countries
w27670 Remi Jedwab
Adam Storeygard

The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010
w27662 Jonas Hjort
Vinayak Iyer
Golvine de Rochambeau

Informational Barriers to Market Access: Experimental Evidence from Liberian Firms
w27644 Jie Bai
Panle Jia Barwick
Shengmao Cao
Shanjun Li

Quid Pro Quo, Knowledge Spillover, and Industrial Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the Chinese Auto Industry
w27636 Samuel S. Bird
Michael R. Carter
Travis J. Lybbert
Mary Mathenge
Timothy Njagi
Emilia Tjernström

Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya
w27611 Joan Hamory
Edward Miguel
Michael W. Walker
Michael Kremer
Sarah J. Baird

Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming
w27606 Rocco Macchiavello
Andreas Menzel
Atonu Rabbani
Christopher Woodruff

Challenges of Change: An Experiment Promoting Women to Managerial Roles in the Bangladeshi Garment Sector
w27583 Lasse Brune
Dean Karlan
Sikandra Kurdi
Christopher R. Udry

Social Protection amidst Social Upheaval: Examining the Impact of a Multi-Faceted Program for Ultra-Poor Households in Yemen
w27580 Federico Huneeus
Richard Rogerson

Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization
w27569 Aidan Coville
Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Susumu Yoshida

Financing Municipal Water and Sanitation Services in Nairobi's Informal Settlements
w27564 Quentin Stoeffler
Michael Carter
Catherine Guirkinger
Wouter Gelade

The Spillover Impact of Index Insurance on Agricultural Investment by Cotton Farmers in Burkina Faso
w27562 Saravana Ravindran
Manisha Shah

Unintended Consequences of Lockdowns: COVID-19 and the Shadow Pandemic
w27558 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

China's Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
w27513 Eric V. Edmonds
Benjamin Feigenberg
Jessica Leight

Advancing the Agency of Adolescent Girls
w27506 Yannay Spitzer
Gaspare Tortorici
Ariell Zimran

International Migration Responses to Natural Disasters: Evidence from Modern Europe's Most Destructive Earthquake
w27503 Réka Juhász
Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France
w27501 Bo Li
Jacopo Ponticelli

Going Bankrupt in China
w27496 Abhijit Banerjee
Marcella Alsan
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Abhijit Chowdhury
Esther Duflo
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
Benjamin A. Olken

Messages on COVID-19 Prevention in India Increased Symptoms Reporting and Adherence to Preventive Behaviors Among 25 Million Recipients with Similar Effects on Non-recipient Members of Their Communities
w27475 Hanming Fang
Long Wang
Yang Yang

Competition and Quality: Evidence from High-Speed Railways and Airlines
w27473 Nicholas Ryan
Anant Sudarshan

Rationing the Commons
w27466 Nancy Stokey
Technology Diffusion
w27449 Seema Jayachandran
Social Norms as a Barrier to Women's Employment in Developing Countries
w27436 Jeremy Atack
Robert A. Margo
Paul Rhode

'Mechanization Takes Command': Inanimate Power and Labor Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing
w27429 Pierre Bachas
Lucie Gadenne
Anders Jensen

Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
w27395 C. Justin Cook
Manisha Shah

Aggregate Effects from Public Works: Evidence from India
w27364 Darin Christensen
Oeindrila Dube
Johannes Haushofer
Bilal Siddiqi
Maarten J. Voors

Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak
w27360 Laura Alfaro
Oscar Becerra
Marcela Eslava

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
w27314 Abhijit Banerjee
Dean Karlan
Hannah Trachtman
Christopher R. Udry

Does Poverty Change Labor Supply? Evidence from Multiple Income Effects and 115,579 Bags
w27298 Annie Duflo
Jessica Kiessel
Adrienne Lucas

Experimental Evidence on Alternative Policies to Increase Learning at Scale
w27297 Ishan B. Nath
The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change
w27290 Orazio Attanasio
Sonya Krutikova

Consumption Insurance in Networks with Asymmetric Information
w27286 Pinelopi K. Goldberg
Tristan Reed

Income Distribution, International Integration, and Sustained Poverty Reduction
w27284 Derrick Choe
Alexander Oettl
Robert Seamans

What's Driving Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Transport Sector?
w27273 Titan Alon
Minki Kim
David Lagakos
Mitchell VanVuren

How Should Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic Differ in the Developing World?
w27241 Natalie Bau
Martin Rotemberg
Manisha Shah
Bryce Steinberg

Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Child Labor
w27206 Julian M. Alston
Philip G. Pardey

Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
w27202 David Laborde
Abdullah Mamun
Will Martin
Valeria Piñeiro
Rob Vos

Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
w27201 J. Vernon Henderson
Matthew A. Turner

Urbanization in the Developing World: Too Early or Too Slow?
w27200 Caitlin S. Brown
Martin Ravallion
Dominique van de Walle

Can the World's Poor Protect Themselves from the New Coronavirus?
w27157 Matthew W. Ridley
Gautam Rao
Frank Schilbach
Vikram H. Patel

Poverty, Depression, and Anxiety: Causal Evidence and Mechanisms
w27153 William Easterly
Steven Pennings

Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders
w27140 David Baqaee
Emmanuel Farhi

Entry vs. Rents: Aggregation with Economies of Scale
w27136 Richard K. Lyons
Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj

What Keeps Stablecoins Stable?
w27081 Stephie Fried
David Lagakos

Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach
w27035 Shilpa Aggarwal
Valentina Brailovskaya
Jonathan Robinson

Saving for Multiple Financial Needs: Evidence from Lockboxes and Mobile Money in Malawi
w26957 Mark R. Rosenzweig
Rafael J. Santos Villagran

Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
w26930 Kate Baldwin
Dean Karlan
Christopher R. Udry
Ernest Appiah

How Political Insiders Lose Out When International Aid Underperforms: Evidence from a Participatory Development Experiment in Ghana
w26929 Amanda Guimbeau
Nidhiya Menon
Aldo Musacchio

The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American Way
w26928 Erika Deserranno
Aisha Nansamba
Nancy Qian

The Unintended Consequences of NGO-Provided Aid on Government Services in Uganda
w26925 Abhijit Banerjee
Nils T. Enevoldsen
Rohini Pande
Michael Walton

Public Information is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections
w26924 Casey C. Maue
Marshall Burke
Kyle J. Emerick

Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
w26890 David Atkin
Benjamin Faber
Thibault Fally
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro

Measuring Welfare and Inequality with Incomplete Price Information
w26868 David Lagakos
Samuel Marshall
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Corey Vernot
Michael E. Waugh

Migration Costs and Observational Returns to Migration in the Developing World
w26853 Koichiro Ito
Shuang Zhang

Reforming Inefficient Energy Pricing: Evidence from China
w26850 Philippe De Vreyer
Sylvie Lambert
Martin Ravallion

Unpacking Household Engel Curves
w26844 Peter Q. Blair
Tomas G. Castagnino
Erica L. Groshen
Papia Debroy
Byron Auguste
Shad Ahmed
Fernando Garcia Diaz
Cristian Bonavida

Searching for STARs: Work Experience as a Job Market Signal for Workers without Bachelor's Degrees
w26810 Isaac Ehrlich
Yun Pei

Human Capital as Engine of Growth - The Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth Within and Across Countries
w26809 Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Camila Navajas Ahumada

Trust and Saving in Financial Institutions
w26806 Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Melanie Morten
Alessandra Peter

Network-Based Hiring: Local Benefits; Global Costs
w26754 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Historical Natural Experiments: Bridging Economics and Economic History
w26746 Pedro Bessone
Gautam Rao
Frank Schilbach
Heather Schofield
Mattie Toma

The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
w26733 Oriana Bandiera
Michael Carlos Best
Adnan Qadir Khan
Andrea Prat

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
w26731 Richard Baldwin
Rikard Forslid

Globotics and Development: When Manufacturing is Jobless and Services are Tradable
w26730 Pushkar Maitra
Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Sujata Visaria

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries
w26716 Stefano DellaVigna
Nicholas Otis
Eva Vivalt

Forecasting the Results of Experiments: Piloting an Elicitation Strategy
w26711 Mark Bils
Peter J. Klenow
Cian Ruane

Misallocation or Mismeasurement?
w26698 Maria Jones
Florence Kondylis
John Loeser
Jeremy Magruder

Factor Market Failures and the Adoption of Irrigation in Rwanda
w26661 Seema Jayachandran
Microentrepreneurship in Developing Countries
w26652 Ying Bai
Ruixue Jia

The Economic Consequences of Political Hierarchy: Evidence from Regime Changes in China, AD1000-2000
w26636 Daniel R. LaFave
Evan D. Peet
Duncan Thomas

Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior
w26615 M. Shahe Emran
Dilip Mookherjee
Forhad Shilpi
M. Helal Uddin

Credit Rationing and Pass-Through in Supply Chains: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
2019
w26600 Dennis Egger
Johannes Haushofer
Edward Miguel
Paul Niehaus
Michael W. Walker

General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
w26585 Li Gan
Qing He
Ruichao Si
Daichun Yi

Relocating or Redefined: A New Perspective on Urbanization in China
w26581 Jie Bai
Jiahua Liu

The Impact of Intranational Trade Barriers on Exports: Evidence from a Nationwide VAT Rebate Reform in China
w26554 Alexander Bick
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
David Lagakos
Hitoshi Tsujiyama

Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?
w26528 Kenneth Lee
Edward Miguel
Catherine Wolfram

Does Household Electrification Supercharge Economic Development?
w26526 Marius Brülhart
Klaus Desmet
Gian-Paolo Klinke

The Shrinking Advantage of Market Potential
w26516 Orazio Attanasio
Flávio Cunha
Pamela Jervis

Subjective Parental Beliefs. Their Measurement and Role
w26511 Marcos Rangel
Duncan Thomas

Decision-Making in Complex Households
w26462 David Neumark
Luis Felipe Munguia Corella

Do Minimum Wages Reduce Employment in Developing Countries? A Survey and Exploration of Conflicting Evidence
w26390 Gharad Bryan
Edward Glaeser
Nick Tsivanidis

Cities in the Developing World
w26388 Thomas Bossuroy
Clara Delavallade
Vincent Pons

Biometric Tracking, Healthcare Provision, and Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control
w26366 Nava Ashraf
Alexia Delfino
Edward L. Glaeser

Rule of Law and Female Entrepreneurship
w26359 Marek Kapička
Finn Kydland
Carlos Zarazaga

Exploring The Role of Limited Commitment Constraints in Argentina's "Missing Capital"
w26346 Abhijit Banerjee
Emily Breza
Esther Duflo
Cynthia Kinnan

Can Microfinance Unlock a Poverty Trap for Some Entrepreneurs?
w26331 Fernando M. Aragon Sanchez
Diego Restuccia
Juan Pablo Rud

Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms?
w26327 Javier Cravino
Andrei A. Levchenko
Marco Rojas

Population Aging and Structural Transformation
w26318 William Easterly
In Search of Reforms for Growth: New Stylized Facts on Policy and Growth Outcomes
w26294 Erica M. Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol
Simone G. Schaner
Charity Troyer Moore

On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
w26283 Jie Bai
Ludovica Gazze
Yukun Wang

Collective Reputation in Trade: Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry
w26250 Fiona Burlig
Louis Preonas
Matt Woerman

Panel Data and Experimental Design
w26241 Raúl Duarte
Frederico Finan
Horacio Larreguy
Laura Schechter

Brokering Votes With Information Spread Via Social Networks
w26235 Michael J. Andrews
Local Effects of Land Grant Colleges on Agricultural Innovation and Output
w26230 David Atkin
Amit Khandelwal

How Distortions Alter the Impacts of International Trade in Developing Countries
w26224 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Daniel Keniston
Nina Singh

The Efficient Deployment of Police Resources: Theory and New Evidence from a Randomized Drunk Driving Crackdown in India
w26211 Martin Ravallion
On Measuring Global Poverty
w26208 Michael Carter
Rachid Laajaj
Dean Yang

Subsidies and the African Green Revolution: Direct Effects and Social Network Spillovers of Randomized Input Subsidies in Mozambique
w26204 Abhijit Banerjee
Amy Finkelstein
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Arianna Ornaghi
Sudarno Sumarto

The Challenges of Universal Health Insurance in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Large-scale Randomized Experiment in Indonesia
w26190 Eric V. Edmonds
Caroline B. Theoharides

The Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
w26185 Shing-Yi Wang
The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
w26181 Kjetil Storesletten
Bo Zhao
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Business Cycle during Structural Change: Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective.
w26107 Sam Heft-Neal
Jennifer Burney
Eran Bendavid
Kara Voss
Marshall Burke

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Saharan Dust
w26096 Abhijit Banerjee
Eliana La Ferrara
Victor H. Orozco-Olvera

The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV
w26082 Costas Meghir
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Corina D. Mommaerts
Melanie Morten

Migration and Informal Insurance: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial and a Structural Model
w26066 Kibrom A. Abay
Leah Bevis
Christopher B. Barrett

Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting
w26065 Rute Martins Caeiro
From Learning to Doing: Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau
w26054 Joshua W. Deutschmann
Maya Duru
Kim Siegal
Emilia Tjernström

Can Smallholder Extension Transform African Agriculture?
w26050 Sebastian Horn
Carmen M. Reinhart
Christoph Trebesch

China's Overseas Lending
w26045 Fo Kodjo Dzinyefa Aflagah
Tanguy Bernard
Angelino Viceisza

Cheap Talk and Coordination in the Lab and in the Field: Collective Commercialization in Senegal
w26035 Girum Abebe
Marcel Fafchamps
Michael Koelle
Simon Quinn

Learning Management Through Matching: A Field Experiment Using Mechanism Design
w26006 Harounan Kazianga
Leigh L. Linden
Ali Protik
Matthew Sloan

The Medium-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Seven-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Faso
w26003 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Rainer Kotschy
Klaus Prettner
Johannes J. Schünemann

Health and Economic Growth: Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence
w25998 Pedro Bento
Diego Restuccia

The Role of Nonemployers in Business Dynamism and Aggregate Productivity
w25994 Nicholas Ingwersen
Harounan Kazianga
Leigh L. Linden
Arif Mamun
Ali Protik
Matthew Sloan

The Long-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
w25993 Sen Chai
Richard B. Freeman

Temporary Colocation and Collaborative Discovery: Who Confers at Conferences
w25992 Federico Droller
Martin Fiszbein

Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina
w25982 Andreas Menzel
Christopher Woodruff

Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh
w25981 Guadalupe Bedoya
Aidan Coville
Johannes Haushofer
Jeremy P. Shapiro
Mohammad Isaqzadeh
Mohammad Isaqzadeh

No Household Left Behind: Afghanistan Targeting the Ultra Poor Impact Evaluation
w25951 Tilman Graff
Spatial Inefficiencies in Africa's Trade Network
w25937 Achyuta Adhvaryu
Prashant Bharadwaj
James Fenske
Anant Nyshadham
Richard Stanley

Dust and Death: Evidence from the West African Harmattan
w25929 Orazio Attanasio
Matthew Bird
Lina Cardona-Sosa
Pablo Lavado

Freeing Financial Education via Tablets: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
w25903 Isaac Mbiti
Mauricio Romero
Youdi Schipper

Designing Effective Teacher Performance Pay Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
w25901 Hanming Fang
Linke Hou
Mingxing Liu
Lixin Colin Xu
Pengfei Zhang

Factions, Local Accountability, and Long-Term Development: Theory and Evidence
w25894 Mark R. Rosenzweig
Christopher R. Udry

Assessing the Benefits of Long-Run Weather Forecasting for the Rural Poor: Farmer Investments and Worker Migration in a Dynamic Equilibrium Model
w25880 Emily Breza
Supreet Kaur
Nandita Krishnaswamy

Propping Up the Wage Floor: Collective Labor Supply without Unions
w25871 Paula Bustos
Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi
Joan Monras
Jacopo Ponticelli

Industrialization without Innovation
w25844 Maximilian W. Mueller
Joan Hamory Hicks
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
Edward Miguel

The Illusion of Stable Preferences over Major Life Decisions
w25802 Uzma Afzal
Giovanna D'Adda
Marcel Fafchamps
Simon R. Quinn
Farah Said

Implicit and Explicit Commitment in Credit and Saving Contracts: A Field Experiment
w25789 Esther Delesalle
The Effect of the Universal Primary Education Program on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Tanzania
w25788 Christopher Blattman
Stefan Dercon
Simon Franklin

Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia
w25785 Ingvild Almås
Maximilian Auffhammer
Tessa Bold
Ian Bolliger
Aluma Dembo
Solomon M. Hsiang
Shuhei Kitamura
Edward Miguel
Robert Pickmans

Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
w25780 Tasso Adamopoulos
Diego Restuccia

Land Reform and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data
w25779 Marshall Burke
Vincent Tanutama

Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output
w25741 Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke
Ahmed Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
w25731 Johannes Haushofer
Anett John
Kate Orkin

Can Simple Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Investment?
w25729 Nina Buchmann
Erica M. Field
Rachel Glennerster
Reshmaan N. Hussam

Throwing the Baby out with the Drinking Water: Unintended Consequences of Arsenic Mitigation Efforts in Bangladesh
w25728 Giovanni Peri
Akira Sasahara

The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations: Evidence from Global Big Data
w25727 Philipp Ager
Katherine Eriksson
Casper Worm Hansen
Lars Lønstrup

How the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Shaped Economic Activity in the American West
w25711 Ingvild Almås
Johannes Haushofer
Jeremy P. Shapiro

The Income Elasticity for Nutrition: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
w25704 Sabrin A. Beg
Adrienne M. Lucas
Waqas Halim
Umar Saif

Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not
w25695 Erik Brynjolfsson
Avinash Collis
W. Erwin Diewert
Felix Eggers
Kevin J. Fox

GDP-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy
w25693 David Atkin
Eve Colson-Sihra
Moses Shayo

How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
w25687 Martin Ravallion
Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
w25683 Samuel Bazzi
Arya Gaduh
Alexander D. Rothenberg
Maisy Wong

Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
w25678 Jonathan I. Dingel
Antonio Miscio
Donald R. Davis

Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies
w25674 Christopher R. Knittel
Elizabeth Murphy

Generational Trends in Vehicle Ownership and Use: Are Millennials Any Different?
w25665 Aminou Arouna
Jeffrey D. Michler
Jourdain C. Lokossou

Contract Farming and Rural Transformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin
w25660 Wyatt J. Brooks
Joseph P. Kaboski
Yao Amber Li
Wei Qian

Exploitation of Labor? Classical Monopsony Power and Labor's Share
w25640 Martin Ravallion
Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
w25627 Johannes Haushofer
Charlotte Ringdal
Jeremy P. Shapiro
Xiao Yu Wang

Income Changes and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
w25608 Manisha Shah
Bryce Millett Steinberg

The Right to Education Act: Trends in Enrollment, Test Scores, and School Quality
w25604 Prashant Bharadwaj
William Jack
Tavneet Suri

Fintech and Household Resilience to Shocks: Evidence from Digital Loans in Kenya
w25598 Abhijit Banerjee
Paul Niehaus
Tavneet Suri

Universal Basic Income in the Developing World
w25585 Seth G. Benzell
Erik Brynjolfsson

Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth
w25562 Alberto Alesina
Elie Murard
Hillel Rapoport

Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
w25550 Marcela Eslava
John C. Haltiwanger
Alvaro Pinzón

Job creation in Colombia vs the U.S.: "up or out dynamics" meets "the life cycle of plants".
w25549 Marlene Amstad
Zhiguo He

Chinese Bond Market and Interbank Market
w25547 Nicholas Ryan
Contract Enforcement and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Bidding and Renegotiation of Power Contracts in India
w25506 Garance Genicot
Tolerance and Compromise in Social Networks
w25502 Anders Jensen
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System
w25499 Manoj Mohanan
Katherine Donato
Grant Miller
Yulya Truskinovsky
Marcos Vera-Hernández

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Varying Skills
w25497 Abhijit Banerjee
Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Markus Mobius

Naive Learning with Uninformed Agents
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Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture
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Macroeconomic Consequences of Tariffs
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Long-run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment: Evidence from the Boll Weevil
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Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Sudarno Sumarto

The (lack of) Distortionary Effects of Proxy-Means Tests: Results from a Nationwide Experiment in Indonesia
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Michael Kremer
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Using RCTs to Estimate Long-Run Impacts in Development Economics
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Can Mobile-Linked Bank Accounts Bolster Savings? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Sri Lanka
w25331 Diva Dhar
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Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
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Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains
w25320 Christopher J. Ruhm
Shackling the Identification Police?
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Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits
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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States
w25286 Giuseppe Berlingieri
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Claudia Steinwender

Organizing Global Supply Chains: Input Cost Shares and Vertical Integration
w25284 Carolina Lopez
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Simone Schaner

The Contribution of Patients and Providers to the Overuse of Prescription Drugs
w25279 Jessica Goldberg
Mario Macis
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Incentivized Peer Referrals for Tuberculosis Screening: Evidence from India
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Historical Legacies and African Development
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Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers

Green Technology Diffusion: A Post-Mortem Analysis of the Eco-Patent Commons
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Daniel Halim
Marieke Kleemans

Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia
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Brian Giera
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Jonathan Robinson
Alan Spearot

Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania
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The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for STEM PhDs: Who leaves and Why
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James E. Rauch

Unemployment and Development
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Benjamin Golub
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Signaling, Shame, and Silence in Social Learning
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Stefanie Kleimeier
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Exporting Pollution: Where Do Multinational Firms Emit CO₂?
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Timothy McQuade

Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?
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Stephen J. Redding
Daniel M. Sturm

The Making of the Modern Metropolis: Evidence from London
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Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel
Maarten Voors

Skill versus Voice in Local Development
w25007 David Yermack
FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn't
w24999 Christopher Blattman
Nathan Fiala
Sebastian Martinez

The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-year Evidence From Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
w24977 Uzma Afzal
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Intrahousehold Consumption Allocation and Demand for Agency: A Triple Experimental Investigation
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On Average Establishment Size across Sectors and Countriesy
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Commodity Trade Matters
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Nicholas L. Wilson

Schooling, Wealth, Risky Sexual Behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
w24952 Edward L. Glaeser
Hyunjin Kim
Michael Luca

Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change
w24943 Ariell Zimran
Transportation and Health in the Antebellum United States 1820-1847
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Benjamin A. Olken

Universal Basic Incomes vs. Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries
w24937 Johannes Boehm
Ezra Oberfield

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production
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Thibault Fally

Per Capita Income, Consumption Patterns, and CO₂ Emissions
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Ariel BenYishay
Jeremy Magruder
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Can Network Theory-based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?
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Naureen Karachiwalla
Ibrahim Kasirye
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Derek Neal

Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools
w24897 Ceren Baysan
Marshall Burke
Felipe González
Solomon Hsiang
Edward Miguel

Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence: Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico
w24876 Isaac Mbiti
Karthik Muralidharan
Mauricio Romero
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Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
w24870 Michael Geruso
Dean Spears

Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
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Bogang Jun
Edward L. Glaeser
César Hidalgo

The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms
w24861 Robin Burgess
Francisco J.M. Costa
Benjamin A. Olken

Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon
w24848 Achyuta Adhvaryu
Anant Nyshadham
Teresa Molina
Jorge Tamayo

Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment
w24829 Qingnan Xie
Richard B. Freeman

Bigger Than You Thought: China's Contribution to Scientific Publications
w24809 Stefano Breschi
Francesco Lissoni
Ernest Miguelez

Return Migrants' Self-selection: Evidence for Indian Inventor
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Pengfei Han
Juan M. Sanchez

Financing Ventures
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Ran Goldblatt
Gordon H. Hanson
Amit K. Khandelwal

Detecting Urban Markets with Satellite Imagery: An Application to India
w24780 Christian Catalini
Christian Fons-Rosen
Patrick Gaulé

How Do Travel Costs Shape Collaboration?
w24758 Giorgio Chiovelli
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Landmines and Spatial Development
w24744 Douglas Gollin
Casper Worm Hansen
Asger Wingender

Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution
w24727 Klaus Desmet
Avner Greif
Stephen Parente

Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence
w24694 Klaus Desmet
Joseph Gomes
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
w24693 Robert T. Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

Market Integration, Demand and the Growth of Firms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
w24678 Victor Chernozhukov
Mert Demirer
Esther Duflo
Iván Fernández-Val

Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments, with an Application to Immunization in India
w24670 Nur Cahyadi
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Rizal Adi Prima
Elan Satriawan
Ekki Syamsulhakim

Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
w24666 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
Ruben Durante
Filipe R. Campante

Building Nations Through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football
w24665 Martin Ravallion
Dean Jolliffe
Juan Margitic

Social Protection and Economic Development: Are the Poorest Being Lifted-Up or Left-Behind?
w24633 Laura Alfaro
Alejandro Cuñat
Harald Fadinger
Yanping Liu

The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis
w24625 Samuel Bazzi
Matthew Gudgeon

The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions
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Energy Productivity and Energy Demand: Experimental Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Plants
w24611 Daron Acemoglu
Ali Cheema
Asim I. Khwaja
James A. Robinson

Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
w24590 Réka Juhász
Claudia Steinwender

Spinning the Web: The Impact of ICT on Trade in Intermediates and Technology Diffusion
w24568 Berthold Herrendorf
Richard Rogerson
Ákos Valentinyi

Structural Change in Investment and Consumption: A Unified Approach
w24564 Günther Fink
B. Kelsey Jack
Felix Masiye

Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production
w24562 Gilles Duranton
Anthony J. Venables

Place-Based Policies for Development
w24546 Ashantha Ranasinghe
Diego Restuccia

Financial Frictions and the Rule of Law
w24539 Xiaofang Dong
Siqi Zheng
Matthew E. Kahn

The Role of Transportation Speed in Facilitating High Skilled Teamwork
w24532 Tasso Adamopoulos
Diego Restuccia

Geography and Agricultural Productivity: Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Plot-Level Data
w24526 Carlos J. Serrano
Rosemarie Ziedonis

How Redeployable are Patent Assets? Evidence from Failed Startups
w24524 Chong Xiang
Stephen Yeaple

The Production of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Human Capital in the Global Economy
w24514 Erik Brynjolfsson
Felix Eggers
Avinash Gannamaneni

Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being
w24495 Camilo García-Jimeno
Angel Iglesias
Pinar Yildirim

Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action
w24482 Alexandra C. Hartman
Robert A. Blair
Christopher Blattman

Engineering Informal Institutions: Long-run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
w24476 Marshall Burke
Lauren Falcao Bergquist
Edward Miguel

Sell Low and Buy High: Arbitrage and Local Price Effects in Kenyan Markets
w24474 Norman Loayza
Amine Ouazad
Romain Rancière

Financial Development, Growth, and Crisis: Is There a Trade-Off?
w24452 Jesse K. Anttila-Hughes
Lia C.H. Fernald
Paul J. Gertler
Patrick Krause
Bruce Wydick

Mortality from Nestlé's Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries
w24444 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Debora Revoltella
Jan Svejnar
Christoph T. Weiss

Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
w24433 Charles W. Calomiris
Mauricio Larrain
Sergio L. Schmukler

Capital Inflows, Equity Issuance Activity, and Corporate Investment
w24414 Haichao Fan
Yu Liu
Nancy Qian
Jaya Wen

Computerizing VAT Invoices in China
w24406 Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Robert Townsend
Juan Pablo Xandri

Financial Centrality and Liquidity Provision
w24391 Shilpa Aggarwal
Eilin Francis
Jonathan Robinson

Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow: Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya
w24384 Victor Couture
Benjamin Faber
Yizhen Gu
Lizhi Liu

Connecting the Countryside via E-Commerce: Evidence from China
w24379 Dean Karlan
Adam Osman
Jonathan Zinman

Dangers of a Double-Bottom Line: A Poverty Targeting Experiment Misses Both Targets
w24375 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Zigan Wang
Wensi Xie

Bank Liquidity, Credit Supply, and the Environment
w24359 Emily Breza
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

Seeing the Forest for the Trees? An Investigation of Network Knowledge
w24348 Carsten Fink
Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers

Intellectual Property Use in Middle Income Countries: The Case of Chile
w24345 Gerardo della Paolera
Xavier H. Duran Amorocho
Aldo Musacchio

The Industrialization of South America Revisited: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010
w24331 Kenneth R. Ahern
The Importance of Psychology in Economic Activity: Evidence from Terrorist Attacks
w24329 Emily Breza
Cynthia Kinnan

Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
w24314 Achyuta Adhvaryu
Namrata Kala
Anant Nyshadham

The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-benefits of Energy-saving Technology
w24313 Achyuta Adhvaryu
Namrata Kala
Anant Nyshadham

The Skills to Pay the Bills: Returns to On-the-job Soft Skills Training
w24309 Achyuta Adhvaryu
James E. Fenske
Gaurav Khanna
Anant Nyshadham

Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa
w24303 Susan W. Parker
Tom Vogl

Do Conditional Cash Transfers Improve Economic Outcomes in the Next Generation? Evidence from Mexico
w24295 Maximilian Auffhammer
Edward Rubin

Natural Gas Price Elasticities and Optimal Cost Recovery Under Consumer Heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills
w24278 Gharad T. Bryan
James J. Choi
Dean Karlan

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes
w24272 Dean Karlan
Sendhil Mullainathan
Benjamin N. Roth

Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines
w24271 Abhijit Banerjee
Dean Karlan
Robert Darko Osei
Hannah Trachtman
Christopher Udry

Unpacking a Multi-Faceted Program to Build Sustainable Income for the Very Poor
w24264 Sebastian Galiani
Paul J. Gertler
Raimundo Undurraga

Aspiration Adaptation in Resource-Constrained Environments
w24260 Raluca Dragusanu
Eduardo Montero
Nathan Nunn

The Effects of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
w24256 John B. Donaldson
Christos Koulovatianos
Jian Li
Rajnish Mehra

Demographics and FDI: Lessons from China's One-Child Policy
w24255 Barbara Biasi
Petra Moser

Effects of Copyrights on Science - Evidence from the US Book Republication Program
w24251 James E. Anderson
N-S Trade with Weak Institutions
w24249 Nicholas Bloom
Aprajit Mahajan
David McKenzie
John Roberts

Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India
w24247 Hoyt Bleakley
Longevity, Education, and Income: How Large is the Triangle?
w24194 Jessica Leight
Dana Foarta
Rohini Pande
Laura Ralston

Value for Money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability
w24193 David Lagakos
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Michael E. Waugh

The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration
w24192 Kelsey Jack
Seema Jayachandran
Sarojini Rao

Environmental Externalities and Free-riding in the Household
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w24177 Martin Ravallion
Global Inequality when Unequal Countries Create Unequal People
w24151 Robert Z. Lawrence
Recent Manufacturing Employment Growth: The Exception That Proves the Rule.
w24125 Daniel P. Gross
Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor
w24088 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Spatial Patterns of Development: A Meso Approach
w24081 John (Jianqiu) Bai
Daniel Carvalho
Gordon M. Phillips

The Impact of Bank Credit on Labor Reallocation and Aggregate Industry Productivity
w24066 Murat Iyigun
Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900
w24052 Yang Jiao
Shang-Jin Wei

Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality
w24041 Andrew D. Foster
Esther Gehrke

Start What You Finish! Ex Ante Risk and Schooling Investments in the Presence of Dynamic Complementarities
w24036 Shuai Chen
Paulina Oliva
Peng Zhang

The Effect of Air Pollution on Migration: Evidence from China
w24034 Chaoran Chen
Diego Restuccia
Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis

The Effects of Land Markets on Resource Allocation and Agricultural Productivity
w24032 Monica Martinez-Bravo
Gerard Padró I Miquel
Nancy Qian
Yang Yao

The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-off
w24022 Robert C. Feenstra
Akira Sasahara

The 'China Shock', Exports and U.S. Employment: A Global Input-Output Analysis
w24012 Juan Saavedra
Dario Maldonado
Lucrecia Santibanez
Luis Omar Herrera Prada

Premium or Penalty? Labor Market Returns to Novice Public Sector Teachers
w23991 Peng Zhang
Olivier Deschenes
Kyle C. Meng
Junjie Zhang

Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants
w23979 Margarida Duarte
Diego Restuccia

Relative Prices and Sectoral Productivity
w23970 Burak R. Uras
Ping Wang

Production Flexibility, Misallocation and Total Factor Productivity
w23952 Qihua Qiu
Jaesang Sung
Will Davis
Rusty Tchernis

Using Spatial Factor Analysis to Measure Human Development
w23949 Christopher Hansman
Jonas Hjort
Gianmarco León
Matthieu Teachout

Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters
w23941 Christopher Blattman
Donald Green
Daniel Ortega
Santiago Tobón

Place-Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime
w23939 Pei-Ju Liao
Ping Wang
Yin-Chi Wang
Chong Kee Yip

Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development
w23937 T. Terry Cheung
Theodore Palivos
Ping Wang
Yin-Chi Wang
Chong K. Yip

Dynamic Trade, Endogenous Institutions and the Colonization of Hong Kong: A Staged Development Framework
w23936 Raphaël Franck
Stelios Michalopoulos

Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
w23935 Gaetano Basso
Giovanni Peri
Ahmed Rahman

Computerization and Immigration: Theory and Evidence from the United States
w23929 Agha Ali Akram
Shyamal Chowdhury
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets
w23916 Douglas Gollin
Martina Kirchberger
David Lagakos

In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World
w23909 Andrew D. Foster
Mark R. Rosenzweig

Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
w23878 Nina Pavcnik
The Impact of Trade on Inequality in Developing Countries
w23870 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
David S. Blakeslee
Matthew Hoover
Leigh Linden
Dhushyanth Raju
Stephen P. Ryan

Delivering Education to the Underserved Through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
w23857 Mark Brown
Shon M. Ferguson
Crina Viju

Agricultural Trade Reform, Reallocation and Technical Change: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
w23845 Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

East Asian Financial and Economic Development
w23838 Karthik Muralidharan
Paul Niehaus
Sandip Sukhtankar

General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
w23807 Nava Ashraf
Edward Glaeser
Abraham Holland
Bryce Millett Steinberg

Water, Health and Wealth
w23800 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Wensi Xie

The Origins of Financial Development: How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance
w23794 Joseph E. Stiglitz
Structural Transformation, Deep Downturns, and Government Policy
w23756 Parag Mahajan
Dean Yang

Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and U.S. Immigration
w23749 Felipe A. Dunsch
David K. Evans
Ezinne Eze-Ajoku
Mario Macis

Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment
w23721 Richard Akresh
Sonia Bhalotra
Marinella Leone
Una O. Osili

First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War
w23717 Daniel Aaronson
Rajeev Dehejia
Andrew Jordan
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Cyrus Samii
Karl Schulze

The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries
w23716 Thomas Drechsel
Silvana Tenreyro

Commodity Booms and Busts in Emerging Economies
w23702 Marcella Alsan
The Gendered Spillover Effect of Young Children's Health on Human Capital: Evidence from Turkey
w23701 Raphaël Franck
Oded Galor

Flowers of Evil? Industrial Development and Long-Run Prosperity
w23604 Lucia Corno
Nicole Hildebrandt
Alessandra Voena

Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
w23601 David E. Bloom
Simiao Chen
Michael Kuhn
Mark E. McGovern
Les Oxley
Klaus Prettner

The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan, and South Korea
w23598 Zhuo Chen
Zhiguo He
Chun Liu

The Financing of Local Government in China: Stimulus Loan Wanes and Shadow Banking Waxes
w23594 Sandra García
Juan Saavedra

Educational Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: A Meta-Analysis
w23590 Joshua Blumenstock
Michael Callen
Tarek Ghani

Why Do Defaults Affect Behavior? Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan
w23589 Gustavo J. Bobonis
Paul Gertler
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Simeon Nichter

Vulnerability and Clientelism
w23582 Jonas Hjort
Jonas Poulsen

The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa
w23558 Uttara Balakrishnan
Johannes Haushofer
Pamela Jakiela

How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments
w23547 Robert E. Lucas
Jr.

What Was the Industrial Revolution?
w23544 Michael L. Anderson
Jeremy Magruder

Split-Sample Strategies for Avoiding False Discoveries
w23540 Gharad Bryan
Melanie Morten

The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
w23533 Sun Ling Wang
Eldon Ball
Richard Nehring
Ryan Williams
Truong Chau

Impacts of Climate Change and Extreme Weather on U.S. Agricultural Productivity: Evidence and Projection
w23508 Eric Avis
Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan
Carlos Varjão

Money and Politics: The Effects of Campaign Spending Limits on Political Competition and Incumbency Advantage
w23499 Benjamin Enke
Kinship, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Moral Systems
w23482 Justin Caron
Thibault Fally
James Markusen

Per Capita Income and the Demand for Skills
w23475 Francesco Trebbi
Eric Weese
Austin L. Wright
Andrew Shaver

Insurgent Learning
w23422 Diego Restuccia
Richard Rogerson

The Causes and Costs of Misallocation
w23414 Leonardo Bursztyn
Bruno Ferman
Stefano Fiorin
Martin Kanz
Gautam Rao

Status Goods: Experimental Evidence from Platinum Credit Cards
w23403 Adrienne M. Lucas
Nicholas L. Wilson

Can at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa?
w23383 Pia M. Basurto
Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
w23378 Margaret McMillan
Dani Rodrik
Claudia Sepulveda

Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth: A Framework and Case Studies
w23375 Alberto Bisin
Thierry Verdier

On the Joint Evolution of Culture and Institutions
w23358 Arielle Bernhardt
Erica Field
Rohini Pande
Natalia Rigol

Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital among Female Micro-entrepreneurs
w23348 Matthew S. Jaremski
Price V. Fishback

Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century?
w23347 Elizabeth Frankenberg
Duncan Thomas

Human Capital and Shocks: Evidence on Education, Health and Nutrition
w23343 Stephen Broadberry
John Joseph Wallis

Growing, Shrinking, and Long Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development
w23339 José-María Da-Rocha
Marina Mendes Tavares
Diego Restuccia

Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Endogenous Establishment-Level Productivity
w23332 Lorenzo Caliendo
Fernando Parro
Aleh Tsyvinski

Distortions and the Structure of the World Economy
w23322 Daron Acemoglu
Leopoldo Fergusson
Simon Johnson

Population and Civil War
w23309 Rodolphe Desbordes
Shang-Jin Wei

The Effects of Financial Development on Foreign Direct Investment
w23301 Oded Galor
Marc Klemp

Roots of Autocracy
w23295 Rema Hanna
Gabriel Kreindler
Benjamin A. Olken

Citywide Effects of High-Occupancy Vehicle Restrictions: Evidence from the Elimination of '3-in-1' in Jakarta
w23283 Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee
Yongseok Shin

Horizontal and Vertical Polarization: Task-Specific Technological Change in a Multi-Sector Economy
w23279 Edward L. Glaeser
Wentao Xiong

Urban Productivity in the Developing World
w23255 John R. Graham
Campbell R. Harvey
Jillian Popadak
Shivaram Rajgopal

Corporate Culture: Evidence from the Field
w23253 Joan Hamory Hicks
Marieke Kleemans
Nicholas Y. Li
Edward Miguel

Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata
w23252 Pierre Bachas
Paul Gertler
Sean Higgins
Enrique Seira

How Debit Cards Enable the Poor to Save More
w23214 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Paola Salardi

Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
w23202 Jose Asturias
Sewon Hur
Timothy J. Kehoe
Kim J. Ruhl

Firm Entry and Exit and Aggregate Growth
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Edouard Schaal

Optimal Transport Networks in Spatial Equilibrium
w23199 Quamrul H. Ashraf
Oded Galor

The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
w23197 Raphaël Franck
Oded Galor

Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization
w23196 Jacob Moscona
Nathan Nunn
James A. Robinson

Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa
w23195 Marcel Fafchamps
Di Mo

Peer Effects in Computer Assisted Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
w23183 Martin Fiszbein
Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from the U.S.
w23169 Enrique Alberola
Gianluca Benigno

Revisiting the Commodity Curse: A Financial Perspective
w23181 Ryan Brown
Verónica Montalva
Duncan Thomas
Andrea Velásquez

Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
w23178 Benjamin Feigenberg
Steven Rivkin
Rui Yan

Illusory Gains from Chile's Targeted School Voucher Experiment
w23132 Xinshen Diao
Margaret McMillan
Dani Rodrik

The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies: A Structural Change Perspective
w23129 Joel M. David
Venky Venkateswaran

The Sources of Capital Misallocation
w23128 Chaoran Chen
Diego Restuccia
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

Land Misallocation and Productivity
w23126 Xuehui Han
Shang-Jin Wei

Re-examining the Middle-Income Trap Hypothesis (MITH): What to Reject and What to Revive?
w23123 Elwyn Davies
Marcel Fafchamps

When No Bad Deed Goes Punished: Relational Contracting in Ghana versus the UK
w23122 Robert Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

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Informal Employment in a Growing and Globalizing Low-income Country
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Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income
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Are the World's Poorest Being Left Behind?
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Michael Kremer

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
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Medium-Term Health Impacts of Shocks Experienced In Utero and After Birth: Evidence from Detailed Geographic Information on War Exposure
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
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Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States
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Craig McIntosh
Christopher Woodruff

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Sandip Mitra
Dilip Mookherjee
Alberto Motta
Sujata Visaria

Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India
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Duncan Thomas

Farms, Families, and Markets: New Evidence on Completeness of Markets in Agricultural Settings
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John Marshall
James M. Snyder
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Revealing Malfeasance: How Local Media Facilitates Electoral Sanctioning of Mayors in Mexico
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Economic Development and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid: A Historical Perspective
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Tarek A. Hassan
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The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring
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Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting.
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
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Bram Thuysbaert

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Patent Collateral, Investor Commitment, and the Market for Venture Lending
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Family Planning: Program Effects
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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
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Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation: Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy
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On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization
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Public Goods and Ethnic Diversity: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia
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In with the Big, Out with the Small: Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
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Rema Hanna

Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
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Esther Duflo
Richard Hornbeck

How Much do Existing Borrowers Value Microfinance? Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance
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Constitutional Rights and Education: An International Comparative Study
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Marc Klemp

The Biocultural Origins of Human Capital Formation
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Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
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Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique
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Violence and the Formation of Hopelessness and Pessimistic Prospects of Upward Mobility in Colombia
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Tax Morale
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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country
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The Effects of Mortality on Fertility: Population Dynamics after a Natural Disaster
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The Impact of Family Composition on Educational Achievement
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
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Risk Sorting, Portfolio Choice, and Endogenous Informal Insurance
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Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson

Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
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Making Progress on Foreign Aid
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Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
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Dean Karlan
Bram Thuysbaert
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Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
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The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
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The Economics of Fair Trade
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Stephen J. Redding
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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
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Amir S. Jina

The Causal Effect of Environmental Catastrophe on Long-Run Economic Growth: Evidence From 6,700 Cyclones
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Benjamin A. Olken
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Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia
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Hugo A. Hopenhayn
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Eric Brewer
Carson Christiano
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Matthew Podolsky
Javier Rosa
Catherine Wolfram

Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya
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Quanlin Gu
Li-An Zhou

The Gradients of Power: Evidence from the Chinese Housing Market
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Horacio Larreguy

Social Structure and Institutional Design: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
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Britta Augsburg

Holy Cows or Cash Cows?
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Dean Yang

The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
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Jishnu Das
Alaka Holla
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The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance: Evidence from Teacher Absence in India
w20272 Seema Jayachandran
Fertility Decline and Missing Women
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Diego Aycinena
Dean Yang

Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
w20261 Santosh Anagol
Thomas Fujiwara

The Runner-Up Effect
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Cynthia Kinnan
Horacio Larreguy

Social Networks as Contract Enforcement: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field
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Bettina Aten

Trying to Understand the PPPs in ICP2011: Why are the Results so Different?
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Dina Pomeranz

Saving More to Borrow Less: Experimental Evidence from Access to Formal Savings Accounts in Chile
w20219 Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
w20218 Günther Fink
B. Kelsey Jack
Felix Masiye

Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from Zambia
w20217 Pablo Fajgelbaum
Stephen J. Redding

Trade, Structural Transformation and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869-1914
w20214 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
w20205 Rafael La Porta
Andrei Shleifer

Informality and Development
w20188 Dani Rodrik
An African Growth Miracle?
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Roderick Floud
Sok Chul Hong

Food for Thought: Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914
w20172 Gharad Bryan
Shyamal Chowdhury
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Under-investment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh
w20170 Greg Fischer
Dean Karlan
Margaret McConnell
Pia Raffler

To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda
w20144 Bruno Crépon
Florencia Devoto
Esther Duflo
William Pariente

Estimating the Impact of Microcredit on Those Who Take It Up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Morocco
w20143 Paulo Bastos
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Eric Verhoogen

Export Destinations and Input Prices
w20139 Ariel BenYishay
A. Mushfiq Mobarak

Social Learning and Communication
w20135 Julian C. Jamison
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Financial Education and Access to Savings Accounts: Complements or Substitutes? Evidence from Ugandan Youth Clubs
w20129 Massimo Morelli
Dominic Rohner

Resource Concentration and Civil Wars
w20121 Murillo Campello
Rafael Perez Ribas
Yan Wang

Is the Stock Market Just a Side Show? Evidence from a Structural Reform
w20107 Peter Temin
Economic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect
w20091 Daniel Bennett
Wesley Yin

The Market for High-Quality Medicine
w20079 Dave Donaldson
Arnaud Costinot
Cory B. Smith

Evolving Comparative Advantage and the Impact of Climate Change in Agricultural Markets: Evidence from 1.7 Million Fields around the World
w20077 Margaret S. McMillan
Kenneth Harttgen

What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?
w20064 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson

Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink
w20057 Mark Rosenzweig
Junsen Zhang

Co-residence, Life-Cycle Savings and Inter-generational Support in Urban China
w20050 Abhijit Banerjee
Xin Meng
Tommaso Porzio
Nancy Qian

Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
w20047 Dean Karlan
Daniel H. Wood

The Effect of Effectiveness: Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment
w20024 Nava Ashraf
Diego Aycinena
Claudia Martinez
Dean Yang

Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador
w20004 Daron Acemoglu
Suresh Naidu
Pascual Restrepo
James A. Robinson

Democracy Does Cause Growth
w19994 Oleg Itskhoki
Benjamin Moll

Optimal Development Policies with Financial Frictions
w19978 Garance Genicot
Siwan Anderson

Suicide and Property Rights in India
w19977 Hunt Allcott
Allan Collard-Wexler
Stephen D. O'Connell

How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India
w19976 Garance Genicot
Debraj Ray

Aspirations and Inequality
w19966 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Benjamin A. Olken

The Missing "Missing Middle"
w19949 Eli Berman
Michael J. Callen
Clark Gibson
James D. Long

Election Fairness and Government Legitimacy in Afghanistan
w19934 Anusha Chari
Peter Blair Henry

Learning From the Doers: Developing Country Lessons for Advanced Economy Growth
w19933 Daron Acemoglu
Francisco Gallego
James A. Robinson

Institutions, Human Capital and Development
w19929 Amar Hamoudi
Duncan Thomas

Endogenous Co-residence and Program Incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension
w19924 Alan M. Taylor
The Argentina Paradox: Microexplanations and Macropuzzles
w19923 Rajeev H. Dehejia
Arvind Panagariya

The Link Between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India
w19895 Robert J. Gordon
The Demise of U.S. Economic Growth: Restatement, Rebuttal, and Reflections
w19893 Emi Nakamura
Jón Steinsson
Miao Liu

Are Chinese Growth and Inflation Too Smooth? Evidence from Engel Curves
w19888 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt

Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?
w19868 Ejaz Ghani
William R. Kerr
Stephen D. O'Connell

Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India
w19863 Dean Karlan
Leigh L. Linden

Loose Knots: Strong versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda
w19849 Rajshri Jayaraman
Debraj Ray
Francis de Vericourt

Anatomy of a Contract Change
w19848 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo

Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action
w19840 Anusha Chari
Peter Blair Henry

Two Tales of Adjustment: East Asian Lessons for European Growth
w19831 Maxim Pinkovskiy
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Lights, Camera,... Income!: Estimating Poverty Using National Accounts, Survey Means, and Lights
w19827 Manuela Angelucci
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
w19825 Raymond P. Guiteras
B. Kelsey Jack

Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets: Evidence from Rural Malawi
w19811 Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Mark Rosenzweig

Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
w19808 Mark R. Rosenzweig
Christopher Udry

Rainfall Forecasts, Weather and Wages over the Agricultural Production Cycle
w19805 Ganesh Seshan
Dean Yang

Motivating Migrants: A Field Experiment on Financial Decision-Making in Transnational Households
w19804 Daniel M. Hungerman
Public Goods, Hidden Income, and Tax Evasion: Some Nonstandard Results from the Warm-Glow Model
w19802 Alan Fernihough
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
w19786 Geert Bekaert
Campbell R. Harvey
Christian T. Lundblad
Stephan Siegel

Political Risk Spreads
2013
w19756 Taryn Dinkelman
Mitigating Long-run Health Effects of Drought: Evidence from South Africa
w19746 Daron Acemoglu
Suresh Naidu
Pascual Restrepo
James A. Robinson

Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
w19743 Carl Kitchens
Price Fishback

Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940
w19740 Gabriela Calderon
Jesse M. Cunha
Giacomo De Giorgi

Business Literacy and Development: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico
w19738 Krislert Samphantharak
Robert Townsend

Risk and Return in Village Economies
w19733 Lakshmi Iyer
Xin Meng
Nancy Qian
Xiaoxue Zhao

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China
w19708 Viral V. Acharya
Zhaoxia Xu

Financial Dependence and Innovation: The Case of Public versus Private Firms
w19702 Sarah A. Janzen
Michael R. Carter

After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection
w19696 Dean Karlan
Adam Osman
Jonathan Zinman

Follow the Money: Methods for Identifying Consumption and Investment Responses to a Liquidity Shock
w19667 Fernando E. Alvarez
Francisco J. Buera
Robert E. Lucas
Jr.

Idea Flows, Economic Growth, and Trade
w19662 David Dollar
Benjamin F. Jones

China: An Institutional View of an Unusual Macroeconomy
w19661 Carol H. Shiue
Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans Before Modern Growth
w19649 Rema Hanna
Shing-Yi Wang

Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service
w19648 Shenggen Fan
Ravi Kanbur
Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang

The Economics of China: Successes and Challenges
w19646 Dean Karlan
Bram Thuysbaert

Targeting ultra-poor households in Honduras and Peru
w19628 Douglas Gollin
David Lagakos
Michael E. Waugh

The Agricultural Productivity Gap
w19618 Benjamin Moll
Robert M. Townsend
Victor Zhorin

Economic Development, Flow of Funds and the Equilibrium Interaction of Financial Frictions
w19617 Alexander Karaivanov
Robert M. Townsend

Dynamic Financial Constraints: Distinguishing Mechanism Design from Exogenously Incomplete Regimes
w19616 Brian McCaig
Nina Pavcnik

Moving out of Agriculture: Structural Change in Vietnam
w19603 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin
David N. Weil

Malaria and Early African Development: Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait
w19602 Prashant Bharadwaj
Leah K. Lakdawala
Nicholas Li

Perverse Consequences of Well Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban
w19534 Lisa Cameron
Manisha Shah

Risk-Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters
w19525 Ajay Agrawal
John Horton
Nicola Lacetera
Elizabeth Lyons

Digitization and the Contract Labor Market: A Research Agenda
w19512 Gordon C. McCord
Jeffrey D. Sachs

Development, Structure, and Transformation: Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth
w19494 Gianmarco León
Edward Miguel

Transportation Choices and the Value of Statistical Life
w19440 Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India
w19483 Jie Bai
Seema Jayachandran
Edmund J. Malesky
Benjamin A. Olken

Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
w19437 Santosh Anagol
Alvin Etang
Dean Karlan

Continued Existence of Cows Disproves Central Tenets of Capitalism?
w19427 Shing-Yi Wang
Property Rights and Intra-Household Bargaining
w19426 Michael Greenstone
B. Kelsey Jack

Envirodevonomics: A Research Agenda for a Young Field
w19441 Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-stage Experiment in India
w19402 Lucie Gadenne
Monica Singhal

Decentralization in Developing Economies
w19398 Robin Burgess
Remi Jedwab
Edward Miguel
Ameet Morjaria
Gerard Padró i Miquel

The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
w19385 Todd Kumler
Eric Verhoogen
Judith A. Frías

Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
w19380 Ross Levine
Yona Rubinstein

Liberty for More: Finance and Educational Opportunities
w19372 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski
Min Qiang Zhao

The Rise of Services: the Role of Skills, Scale, and Female Labor Supply
w19361 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
w19357 Ava Cas
Elizabeth Frankenberg
Wayan Suriastini
Duncan Thomas

The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
w19348 Hoyt Bleakley
Joseph P. Ferrie

Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
w19341 Karthik Muralidharan
Ketki Sheth

Bridging Education Gender Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Female Teachers
w19334 Mark Rosenzweig
Christopher R. Udry

Forecasting Profitability
w19322 Sebastian Galiani
Paul Gertler
Ryan Cooper
Sebastian Martinez
Adam Ross
Raimundo Undurraga

Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums
w19305 Karthik Muralidharan
Nishith Prakash

Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
w19312 Jennifer M. Meredith
Jonathan Robinson
Sarah Walker
Bruce Wydick

Keeping the Doctor Away: Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
w19279 Eric V. Edmonds
Maheshwor Shrestha

You Get What You Pay For: Schooling Incentives and Child Labor
w19266 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Ethan Kapstein
Erin Troland

Predation, Taxation, Investment and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
w19259 Esther Duflo
Michael Greenstone
Rohini Pande
Nicholas Ryan

Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India
w19227 Najy Benhassine
Florencia Devoto
Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Victor Pouliquen

Turning a Shove into a Nudge? A "Labeled Cash Transfer" for Education
w19213 Dave Donaldson
Richard Hornbeck

Railroads and American Economic Growth: A "Market Access" Approach
w19203 Saumitra Jha
"Unfinished Business": Ethnic Complementarities and the Political Contagion of Peace and Conflict in Gujarat
w19199 Dina Pomeranz
No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax
w19197 Kaivan Munshi
Mark Rosenzweig

Networks, Commitment, and Competence: Caste in Indian Local Politics
w19196 David Atkin
The Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants
w19195 Kathy Baylis
Yazhen Gong
Shun Wang

Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Management of Common Pool Resources
w19191 Annamaria Conti
Jerry Thursby
Marie C. Thursby

Patents as Signals for Startup Financing
w19185 Paul Gertler
James Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Arianna Zanolini
Christel Vermeersch
Susan Walker
Susan M. Chang
Sally Grantham-McGregor

Labor Market Returns to Early Childhood Stimulation: a 20-year Followup to an Experimental Intervention in Jamaica
w19181 Treb Allen
Costas Arkolakis

Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy
w19175 Hoyt Bleakley
Joseph P. Ferrie

Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-run Distribution of Wealth
w19160 Xi Zhu
John Whalley
Xiliang Zhao

Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy
w19127 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi

Ordeal Mechanisms In Targeting: Theory And Evidence From A Field Experiment In Indonesia
w19146 Rajnish Mehra
Asset Pricing Implications of Macroeconomic Interventions An Application to Climate Policy
w19141 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
w19140 Manisha Shah
Bryce Millett Steinberg

Drought of Opportunities: Contemporaneous and Long Term Impacts of Rainfall Shocks on Human Capital
w19128 Tom Vogl
Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
w19119 Manuela Angelucci
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco
w19107 Julian C. Jamison
Dean Karlan
Pia Raffler

Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive mHealth Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda
w19106 Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico
w19090 Anirban Mitra
Debraj Ray

Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
w19077 James J. Heckman
Lakshmi K. Raut

Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool - Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model
w19052 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri

Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences
w19046 Paul Gertler
Christel Vermeersch

Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical Care Productivity and Health Outcomes
w18950 Esther Duflo
Abhijit Banerjee
Rachel Glennerster
Cynthia G. Kinnan

The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
w19017 Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung
Wayne Yu

R-squared and the Economy
w19010 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri Ferrer

If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?
w19004 Randall Morck
M. Deniz Yavuz
Bernard Yeung

State-run Banks, Money Growth, and the Real Economy
w18992 Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Subjective Well-Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
w18971 Peter Boone
Ila Fazzio
Kameshwari Jandhyala
Chitra Jayanty
Gangadhar Jayanty
Simon Johnson
Vimala Ramachandrin
Filipa Silva
Zhaoguo Zhan

The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa: Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)
w18970 Brian Greaney
Joseph P. Kaboski
Eva Van Leemput

Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?
w18964 Grant Miller
A. Mushfiq Mobarak

Gender Differences in Preferences, Intra-Household Externalities, and Low Demand for Improved Cookstoves
w18946 Martin Čihák
Asli Demirgüč-Kunt
Erik Feyen
Ross Levine

Financial Development in 205 Economies, 1960 to 2010
w18932 Grant Miller
Kimberly Singer Babiarz

Pay-for-Performance Incentives in Low- and Middle-Income Country Health Programs
w18920 Christian Fons-Rosen
Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan
Bent E. Sørensen
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez
Vadym Volosovych

Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
w18915 Tomás Rau
Loreto Reyes
Sergio S. Urzúa

The Long-term Effects of Early Lead Exposure: Evidence from a case of Environmental Negligence
w18911 Qingyuan Du
Shang-Jin Wei

A Theory of the Competitive Saving Motive
w18861 Carlo Cafiero
What do we Really Know about Food Security?
w18847 Li Gan
Manuel A. Hernandez
Yanyan Liu

Group Lending with Heterogeneous Types
w18833 Debopam Bhattacharya
Pascaline Dupas
Shin Kanaya

Estimating the Impact of Means-tested Subsidies under Treatment Externalities with Application to Anti-Malarial Bednets
w18824 Philippe Aghion
Ufuk Akcigit
Peter Howitt

What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory?
w18808 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

The Link Between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development
w18798 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken
Ririn Purnamasari
Matthew Wai-Poi

Does Elite Capture Matter? Local Elites and Targeted Welfare Programs in Indonesia
w18776 Alberto Chong
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Dean Karlan
Martin Valdivia

Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers' Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia
w18778 Lori A. Beaman
Dean Karlan
Bram Thuysbaert
Christopher R. Udry

Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
w18674 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Jacob N. Shapiro
Erin Troland

Modest, Secure and Informed: Successful Development in Conflict Zones
w18765 Quamrul Ashraf
Stelios Michalopoulos

Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture
w18742 B. Douglas Bernheim
Debraj Ray
Sevin Yeltekin

Poverty and Self-Control
w18738 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
w18736 Resul Cesur
Erdal Tekin
Aydogan Ulker

Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
w18720 Ajay K. Agrawal
Nicola Lacetera
Elizabeth Lyons

Does Information Help or Hinder Job Applicants from Less Developed Countries in Online Markets?
w18715 Guy Michaels
Ferdinand Rauch
Stephen J. Redding

Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000
w18703 Nuno Limão
Giovanni Maggi

Uncertainty and Trade Agreements
w18699 Alberto Alesina
Johann Harnoss
Hillel Rapoport

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
w18691 Daron Acemoglu
Tristan Reed
James A. Robinson

Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone
w18683 Ann E. Harrison
Justin Yifu Lin
L. Colin Xu

Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
w18679 Lena Edlund
Chulhee Lee

Son Preference, Sex Selection and Economic Development: The Case of South Korea
2012
w18657 François Gourio
Nicolas A. Roys

Size-Dependent Regulations, Firm Size Distribution, and Reallocation
w18650 Laura Alfaro
Anusha Chari

Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
w18602 David Lagakos
Benjamin Moll
Tommaso Porzio
Nancy Qian
Todd Schoellman

Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting
w18596 Philippe Aghion
Antoine Dechezleprêtre
David Hemous
Ralf Martin
John Van Reenen

Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
w18588 Lee J. Alston
Marcus Melo
Bernardo Mueller
Carlos Pereira

Changing Social Contracts: Beliefs and Dissipative Inclusion in Brazil
w18581 James J. Heckman
Rodrigo Pinto
Peter A. Savelyev

Understanding the Mechanisms through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
w18561 Kalina Manova
Zhihong Yu

How Firms Export: Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions
w18556 Geert Bekaert
Alexander Popov

On the Link Between the Volatility and Skewness of Growth
w18550 Simon Gilchrist
Jae W. Sim
Egon Zakrajšek

Misallocation and Financial Frictions: Some Direct Evidence From the Dispersion in Borrowing Costs
w18539 Victor A.B. Davies
Sylvain Dessy

The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa: Liberia and Sierra Leone
w18538 Britta Augsburg
Ralph De Haas
Heike Harmgart
Costas Meghir

The Impacts of Microcredit: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
w18532 Natalia Ramondo
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Milagro Saborío-Rodríguez

Trade, Domestic Frictions, and Scale Effects
w18524 Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William R. Kerr

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
w18512 Alberto F. Alesina
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Ethnic Inequality
w18470 Alessandra Fogli
Laura Veldkamp

Germs, Social Networks and Growth
w18464 Prashant Bharadwaj
Giacomo De Giorgi
David Hansen
Christopher Neilson

The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
w18463 Dean Karlan
Robert Darko Osei
Isaac Osei-Akoto
Christopher Udry

Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
w18461 Jakob Madsen
Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production: Two Centuries of International Evidence
w18454 Alberto Martin
Jaume Ventura

Financial Reforms and Capital Flows: Insights from General Equilibrium
w18438 Stelios Michalopoulos
Alireza Naghavi
Giovanni Prarolo

Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
w18416 Richard Hornbeck
Pinar Keskin

Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer
w18405 Charles R. Hulten
Janet X. Hao

The Role Of Intangible Capital in the Transformation and Growth of the Chinese Economy
w18383 Steven Nafziger
Peter H. Lindert

Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution
w18378 James Habyarimana
William Jack

State vs Consumer Regulation: An Evaluation of Two Road Safety Interventions in Kenya
w18375 Eli Berman
Joseph Felter
Ethan Kapstein
Erin Troland

Predation, Taxation, Investment, and Violence: Evidence from the Philippines
w18373 Hunt Allcott
Site Selection Bias in Program Evaluation
w18371 Janet Currie
Tom Vogl

Early-Life Health and Adult Circumstance in Developing Countries
w18351 Vivi Alatas
Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Rema Hanna
Benjamin A. Olken

Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
w18349 Eva O. Arceo-Gomez
Rema Hanna
Paulina Oliva

Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
w18347 Costas Meghir
Renata Narita
Jean-Marc Robin

Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
w18333 Edward L. Glaeser
Sari Pekkala Kerr
William R. Kerr

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
w18325 Dean Karlan
Ryan Knight
Christopher Udry

Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Micro Enterprise Development
w18319 Tom Vogl
Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition: Evidence from South Asia
w18318 Tom Vogl
Height, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes in Mexico
w18296 Richard Hornbeck
Suresh Naidu

When the Levee Breaks: Black Migration and Economic Development in the American South
w18289 Janvier D. Nkurunziza
Léonce Ndikumana
Prime Nyamoya

The Financial Sector in Burundi
w18278 Bruce A. Blonigen
Anca D. Cristea

Airports and Urban Growth: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Policy Experiment
w18275 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa
w18266 David Atkin
Endogenous Skill Acquisition and Export Manufacturing in Mexico
w18249 Mercedes Delgado
Christian Ketels
Michael E. Porter
Scott Stern

The Determinants of National Competitiveness
w18207 Laura Alfaro
Maggie X. Chen

Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production
w18193 Francesc Ortega
Giovanni Peri

The Effect of Trade and Migration on Income
w18189 Hai Fang
Karen N. Eggleston
John A. Rizzo
Scott Rozelle
Richard J. Zeckhauser

The Returns to Education in China: Evidence from the 1986 Compulsory Education Law
w18183 Evan Borkum
Fang He
Leigh L. Linden

The Effects of School Libraries on Language Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in India
w18177 Daron Acemoglu
Camilo García-Jimeno
James A. Robinson

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
w18162 William Easterly
Ross Levine

The European Origins of Economic Development
w18139 Daniel Berkowitz
Mark Hoekstra
Koen Schoors

Does Finance Cause Growth? Evidence from the Origins of Banking in Russia
w18130 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?
w18118 Emilie Caldeira
Martial Foucault
Grégoire Rota-Graziosi

Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin
w18115 Harounan Kazianga
Dan Levy
Leigh L. Linden
Matt Sloan

The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
w18100 James J. Heckman
Junjian Yi

Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
w18091 Jess Benhabib
Jesse Perla
Christopher Tonetti

Catch-up and Fall-back through Innovation and Imitation
w18080 Edward Kutsoati
Randall Morck

Family Ties, Inheritance Rights, and Successful Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Ghana
w18079 Emin M. Dinlersoz
Jeremy Greenwood

The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S.
w18065 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dan Silverman
Dean Yang

Revising Commitments: Field Evidence on the Adjustment of Prior Choices
w18049 Philippe Aghion
Torsten Persson
Dorothee Rouzet

Education and Military Rivalry
w18039 Dana Burde
Leigh L. Linden

The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
w18033 Rema Hanna
Esther Duflo
Michael Greenstone

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
w18030 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Bent E. Sorensen

Misallocation, Property Rights, and Access to Finance: Evidence from Within and Across Africa
w18019 Suresh De Mel
David McKenzie
Christopher Woodruff

The demand for, and consequences of, formalization among informal firms in Sri Lanka
w18004 Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Erik Feyen
Ross Levine

The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets
w17994 Daron Acemoglu
The World our Grandchildren Will Inherit: The Rights Revolution and Beyond
w17992 Ejaz Ghani
Arti Grover Goswami
William R. Kerr

Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
w17979 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
w17968 Abhijit Banerjee
Sendhil Mullainathan
Rema Hanna

Corruption
w17952 Dean Karlan
Melanie Morten
Jonathan Zinman

A Personal Touch: Text Messaging for Loan Repayment
w17943 Jessica Cohen
Pascaline Dupas
Simone G. Schaner

Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests, and Targeting of Malaria Treatment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
w17939 Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer

School Governance, Teacher Incentives, and Pupil-Teacher Ratios: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools
w17905 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski
Yongseok Shin

The Macroeconomics of Microfinance
w17897 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Nancy Qian

On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China
w17883 Gharad T. Bryan
Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

Referrals: Peer Screening and Enforcement in a Consumer Credit Field Experiment
w17852 Latika Chaudhary
Aldo Musacchio
Steven Nafziger
Se Yan

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China
w17851 Pascaline Dupas
Sarah Green
Anthony Keats
Jonathan Robinson

Challenges in Banking the Rural Poor: Evidence from Kenya's Western Province
w17820 Daron Acemoglu
David Autor

What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology
w17819 Pol Antràs
Davin Chor
Thibault Fally
Russell Hillberry

Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows
w17801 Jeremy D. Foltz
Ursula T. Aldana
Paul Laris

The Sahel's Silent Maize Revolution: Analyzing Maize Productivity in Mali at the Farm-level
w17785 Richard Akresh
Damien de Walque
Harounan Kazianga

Alternative Cash Transfer Delivery Mechanisms: Impacts on Routine Preventative Health Clinic Visits in Burkina Faso
w17747 Catherine Wolfram
Orie Shelef
Paul J. Gertler

How Will Energy Demand Develop in the Developing World?
w17743 Abhijit Banerjee
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Esther Duflo
Matthew O. Jackson

The Diffusion of Microfinance
w17735 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Georgi Kocharkov
Cezar Santos

Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
2011
w17718 Margaret S. McMillan
William A. Masters
Harounan Kazianga

Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa: A Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso
w17702 Esther Duflo
Women's Empowerment and Economic Development
w17700 Timothy J. Kehoe
Felipe Meza

Catch-up Growth Followed by Stagnation: Mexico, 1950-2010
w17692 Joshua Aizenman
Sebastian Edwards
Daniel Riera-Crichton

Adjustment patterns to commodity terms of trade shocks: the role of exchange rate and international reserves policies
w17672 Matthias Doepke
Michèle Tertilt
Alessandra Voena

The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
w17656 Francesco Caselli
Antonio Ciccone

The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound
w17640 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
w17620 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
w17603 Nuno Limao
Kamal Saggi

Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements
w17596 Ejaz Ghani
William R. Kerr
Stephen D. O'Connell

Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
w17591 Eric A. Hanushek
Susanne Link
Ludger Woessmann

Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
w17554 Paul W. Glewwe
Eric A. Hanushek
Sarah D. Humpage
Renato Ravina

School Resources and Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: A Review of the Literature from 1990 to 2010
w17546 Dani Rodrik
Unconditional Convergence
w17524 Amit K. Khandelwal
Peter K. Schott
Shang-Jin Wei

Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
w17514 Ejaz Ghani
William R. Kerr
Stephen D. O'Connell

Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
w17512 Jonathan Chiu
Cesaire Meh
Randall Wright

Innovation and Growth with Financial, and other, Frictions
w17495 Robert E. Lucas
Jr.
Benjamin Moll

Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time
w17493 Andrew Atkeson
Ariel T. Burstein

Aggregate Implications of Innovation Policy
w17487 Benjamin F. Jones
The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach
w17475 Dean Karlan
Jonathan Zinman

List Randomization for Sensitive Behavior: An Application for Measuring Use of Loan Proceeds
w17456 Jesse M. Cunha
Giacomo De Giorgi
Seema Jayachandran

The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers
w17449 Xavier Giné
Jessica Goldberg
Dean Yang

Credit Market Consequences of Improved Personal Identification: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi
w17411 Frederico Finan
Laura A. Schechter

Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
w17398 Benjamin A. Olken
Rohini Pande

Corruption in Developing Countries
w17396 Laura Alfaro
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Vadym Volosovych

Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows, and Global Imbalances
w17383 Kabir Malik
Maureen Cropper
Alexander Limonov
Anoop Singh

Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency: The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector
w17377 Quamrul H. Ashraf
David N. Weil
Joshua Wilde

The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
w17314 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
w17302 Rema Hanna
Paulina Oliva

The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City
w17297 Radha Iyengar
Jonathan Monten
Matthew Hanson

Building Peace: The Impact of Aid on the Labor Market for Insurgents
w17293 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson
Ragnar Torvik

Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
w17265 Serguey Braguinsky
Lee G. Branstetter
Andre Regateiro

The Incredible Shrinking Portuguese Firm
w17255 Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Why Don't the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments
w17249 Tamara Hafner
David Popp

China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
w17245 Avraham Ebenstein
Jian Zhang
Margaret S. McMillan
Kevin Chen

Chemical Fertilizer and Migration in China
w17216 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
w17215 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas J. Weiss

Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
w17210 Michael Greenstone
Rema Hanna

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
w17207 Marcel Fafchamps
David McKenzie
Simon R. Quinn
Christopher Woodruff

When is capital enough to get female microenterprises growing? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
w17186 Konrad B. Burchardi
Tarek Alexander Hassan

The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
w17185 Ama Baafra Abeberese
Todd J. Kumler
Leigh L. Linden

Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read in School: A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
w17184 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
w17174 Patricia M. Danzon
Andrew W. Mulcahy
Adrian K. Towse

Pharmaceutical Pricing in Emerging Markets: Effects of Income, Competition and Procurement
w17165 Richard Akresh
Eric V. Edmonds

Residential Rivalry and Constraints on the Availability of Child Labor
w17158 Nicola Gennaioli
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
Andrei Shleifer

Human Capital and Regional Development
w17143 Margaret S. McMillan
Dani Rodrik

Globalization, Structural Change and Productivity Growth
w17132 Daniel Treisman
Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason
w17129 Isaac Mbiti
David N. Weil

Mobile Banking: The Impact of M-Pesa in Kenya
w17092 Marshall Burke
John Dykema
David Lobell
Edward Miguel
Shanker Satyanath

Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. and African Agriculture
w17075 Oded Galor
Stelios Michalopoulos

Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits
w17069 Guido Cataife
Charles J. Courtemanche

Income-Based Disparities in Health Care Utilization under Universal Coverage in Brazil
w17058 Oded Galor
Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
w17057 Oded Galor
The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences
w17037 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch
w17020 Ximena Cadena
Antoinette Schoar

Remembering to Pay? Reminders vs. Financial Incentives for Loan Payments
w16966 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment"
w16947 Alejandro Artopoulos
Daniel Friel
Juan Carlos Hallak

Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide
w16939 Willa Friedman
Michael Kremer
Edward Miguel
Rebecca Thornton

Education as Liberation?
w16933 Florencia Devoto
Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
William Pariente
Vincent Pons

Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco
w16923 Laura Bottazzi
Marco Da Rin
Thomas F. Hellmann

The Importance of Trust for Investment: Evidence from Venture Capital
w16919 Barry Eichengreen
Donghyun Park
Kwanho Shin

When Fast Growing Economies Slow Down: International Evidence and Implications for China
w16912 J. William Ambrosini
Karin Mayr
Giovanni Peri
Dragos Radu

The Selection of Migrants and Returnees: Evidence from Romania and Implications
w16901 James A. Levinsohn
Zoë McLaren
Olive Shisana
Khangelani Zuma

HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa
w16895 Barbara M. Fraumeni
Human Capital Accounts: Choice of Rates and Construction of Volume Indices
w16878 James B. Davies
Xiaojun Shi
John Whalley

The Possibilities For Global Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing
w16870 Randall Morck
Finance and Governance in Developing Economies
w16830 Jishnu Das
Stefan Dercon
James Habyarimana
Pramila Krishnan
Karthik Muralidharan
Venkatesh Sundararaman

School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores
w16834 John Sutton
Daniel Trefler

Deductions from the Export Basket: Capabilities, Wealth and Trade
w16832 Jess Benhabib
Alejandro Corvalan
Mark M. Spiegel

Reestablishing the Income-Democracy Nexus
w16821 Rafael La Porta
Andrei Shleifer

The Unofficial Economy in Africa
w16813 Yaw Nyarko
The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some Computations Using Data from Ghana
w16809 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
w16800 Shang-Jin Wei
Xiaobo Zhang

Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China
w16757 Barry Eichengreen
Poonam Gupta

The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
w16756 Lee J. Alston
Krister Andersson

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection: The Transaction Costs of REDD
w16742 Charles I. Jones
Misallocation, Economic Growth, and Input-Output Economics
w16721 William Jack
Tavneet Suri

Mobile Money: The Economics of M-PESA
w16718 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

Fertility and the Plough
w16705 David E. Bloom
David Canning
Günther Fink

Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth
w16696 Pierre-André Chiappori
Krislert Samphantharak
Sam Schulhofer-Wohl
Robert M. Townsend

Heterogeneity and Risk Sharing in Village Economies
w16694 Roger H. Gordon
Wei Li

Provincial and Local Governments in China: Fiscal Institutions and Government Behavior
w16682 Daron Acemoglu
Mikhail Golosov
Aleh Tsyvinski
Pierre Yared

A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars
w16661 Murray Leibbrandt
James Levinsohn

Fifteen Years On: Household Incomes in South Africa
w16658 Nicholas Bloom
Benn Eifert
Aprajit Mahajan
David McKenzie
John Roberts

Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
2010
w16640 Fernando A. Broner
Jaume Ventura

Rethinking the Effects of Financial Liberalization
w16635 Alain de Janvry
Frederico Finan
Elisabeth Sadoulet

Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
w16623 Lawrence Edwards
Robert Z. Lawrence

AGOA Rules: The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Special Fabric Provisions
w16610 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
w16599 Kenneth J. Arrow
Partha Dasgupta
Lawrence H. Goulder
Kevin J. Mumford
Kirsten Oleson

Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
w16597 William Easterly
Ariell Reshef

African Export Successes: Surprises, Stylized Facts, and Explanations
w16596 Larry E. Jones
Alice Schoonbroodt

Baby Busts and Baby Booms: The Fertility Response to Shocks in Dynastic Models
w16594 Joshua Graff Zivin
Maria Damon
Harsha Thirumurthy

Health Shocks and Natural Resource Management: Evidence from Western Kenya
w16592 John Whalley
Xiliang Zhao

The Contribution of Human Capital to China's Economic Growth
w16569 Jeffrey A. Frankel
Mauritius: African Success Story
w16555 Robert T. Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
w16554 Javier Arias
Oliver Azuara
Pedro Bernal
James J. Heckman
Cajeme Villarreal

Policies To Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
w16552 Jorge Braga de Macedo
Luís Brites Pereira

Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
w16551 Dongwoo Yoo
Richard H. Steckel

Property Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
w16550 Wolfgang Keller
Ben Li
Carol H. Shiue

China's Foreign Trade: Perspectives From the Past 150 Years
w16528 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Herman Kamil
Carolina Villegas-Sanchez

What Hinders Investment in the Aftermath of Financial Crises: Insolvent Firms or Illiquid Banks?
w16494 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
w16487 Dave Donaldson
Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
w16481 Steven Block
The Decline and Rise of Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1961
w16462 Panicos O. Demetriades
Peter L. Rousseau

Government, Openness and Finance: Past and Present
w16449 Pamela Jakiela
Edward Miguel
Vera L. te Velde

You've Earned It: Combining Field and Lab Experiments to Estimate the Impact of Human Capital on Social Preferences
w16441 Daniel W. Sacks
Betsey Stevenson
Justin Wolfers

Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
w16400 Francisco J. Buera
Yongseok Shin

Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History: A Quantitative Exploration
w16379 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri

An Intensive Exploration of Technology Diffusion
w16378 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn

Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth
w16375 Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard
Per Krusell

The World Distribution of Productivity: Country TFP Choice in a Nelson-Phelps Economy
w16368 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Gerard Roland

Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
w16352 Charles I. Jones
Peter J. Klenow

Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time
w16343 Sylvain Chassang
Gerard Padro i Miquel
Erik Snowberg

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments
w16340 Vikas Mehrotra
Randall Morck
Jungwook Shim
Yupana Wiwattanakantang

Must Love Kill the Family Firm?
w16323 Bronwyn H. Hall
Christian Helmers

The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer
w16320 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
Esteban F. Klor

Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
w16293 Richard B. Freeman
Stephen Machin
Martina Viarengo

Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies across Countries and of Schools within Countries
w16288 Keith Head
Ran Jing
Deborah L. Swenson

From Beijing to Bentonville: Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
w16277 Raquel Fernández
Does Culture Matter?
w16196 Rachel Glennerster
Edward Miguel
Alexander Rothenberg

Collective Action in Diverse Sierra Leone Communities
w16195 Ernesto Aguayo-Tellez
Jim Airola
Chinhui Juhn

Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s
w16167 Ashish Arora
Surendra K. Bagde

Human capital and the Indian software industry
w16141 Oliver Falck
Christina Guenther
Stephan Heblich
William R. Kerr

From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
w16126 Roberto Chang
Constantino Hevia
Norman Loayza

Privatization and Nationalization Cycles
w16125 Jeffrey A. Frankel
Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets: A Survey
w16115 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Belgi Turan

HIV and Fertility Revisited
w16102 Robert T. Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
w16096 Matias Busso
Jesse Gregory
Patrick M. Kline

Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
w16088 Ryan D. Edwards
Trends in World Inequality in Life Span Since 1970
w16083 Daron Acemoglu
Tarek A. Hassan
James A. Robinson

Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
w16021 Robert T. Jensen
Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital: Experimental Evidence for India
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Building Social Capital Through MicroFinance
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Deals versus Rules: Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate It
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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
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Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
w15973 Abhijit Banerjee
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The Shape of Temptation: Implications for the Economic Lives of the Poor
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Borders, Ethnicity and Trade
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
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Theory, General Equilibrium and Political Economy in Development Economics
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A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010
w15900 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Bent Sørensen
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Deep Financial Integration and Volatility
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Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic Development
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Understanding the mechanisms of economic development
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Jobs and Kids: Female Employment and Fertility in Rural China
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Fan Yang

The Shanxi Banks
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Gary D. Libecap
Bernardo Mueller

Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil
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Agriculture, Roads, and Economic Development in Uganda
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The Natural Resource Curse: A Survey
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Property Rights, Land Conflict and Tenancy in Brazil
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Prices and Cigarette Demand: Evidence from Youth Tobacco Use in Developing Countries
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Which Parts of Globalization Matter for Catch-up Growth?
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Intermediation and Economic Integration
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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
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Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?
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Latin American Growth-Inequality Trade-Offs: The Impact of Insurgence and Independence
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
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Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-level Data
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Alessandra Voena

Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
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M. Deniz Yavuz
Bernard Yeung

Banking System Control, Capital Allocation, and Economy Performance
w15550 Francesco Caselli
Guy Michaels

Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
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Michael Callen
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Jacob N. Shapiro

Do Working Men Rebel? Insurgency and Unemployment in Iraq and the Philippines
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Susanna Sandström
Anthony B. Shorrocks
Edward N. Wolff

The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth
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Revealing Failures in the History of School Finance
w15477 Alejandrina Salcedo
Todd Schoellman
Michèle Tertilt

Families as Roommates: Changes in U.S. Household Size from 1850 to 2000
w15465 Efraim Benmelech
Claude Berrebi
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The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism
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Diana M. Pinto
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Risk Protection, Service Use, and Health Outcomes Under Colombia's Health Insurance Program for the Poor
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Is Newer Better? Penn World Table Revisions and Their Impact on Growth Estimates
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India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005
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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income
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Two Perspectives on Preferences and Structural Transformation
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Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez

Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
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Microinsurance, Trust and Economic Development: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Field Experiment
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Evidence from Two Large Field Experiments that Peer Comparison Feedback Can Reduce Residential Energy Usage
w15356 Stelios Michalopoulos
Luc Laeven
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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth
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Spatial Development
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Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption
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Paola Giuliano
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The Right Amount of Trust
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Venkatesh Sundararaman

Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India
w15319 Diego A. Comin
Bart Hobijn

The CHAT Dataset
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Edwyna Harris
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De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers
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Intracompany Governance and Innovation
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Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation and Property Rights Institutions
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Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence
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Yongseok Shin

Productivity Growth and Capital Flows: The Dynamics of Reforms
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Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
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Informal Taxation
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A Simple Nonparametric Estimator for the Distribution of Random Coefficients
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Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
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Educational Choices, Subjective Expectations, and Credit Constraints
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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
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Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
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Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing
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Michael Kremer
Jonathan Robinson

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya
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Paul M. Romer

The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital
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State Capacity, Conflict and Development
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Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
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Empirics of Strategic Interdependence: The Case of the Racial Tipping Point
w15050 Matthias Doepke
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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
w15041 Seema Jayachandran
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
w15028 Farley Grubb
Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802
w15000 Anne Case
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The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys
w14998 Anne Case
Alicia Menendez

Requiescat in Pace? The Consequences of High Priced Funerals in South Africa
w14973 Nancy Qian
Quantity-Quality and the One Child Policy:The Only-Child Disadvantage in School Enrollment in Rural China
w14968 Barry Eichengreen
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The Two Waves of Service Sector Growth
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Esther Duflo
Maitreesh Ghatak
Jeanne Lafortune

Marry for What: Caste and Mate Selection in Modern India
w14949 Manuela Angelucci
Giacomo De Giorgi
Marcos A. Rangel
Imran Rasul

Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
w14942 Gary D. Libecap
Dean Lueck

The Demarcation of Land and the Role of Coordinating Institutions
w14937 Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan

Electoral Accountability and Corruption: Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments
w14923 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Edward Miguel
Daniel Ortega
Francisco Rodriguez

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
w14918 Nathan Nunn
Diego Puga

Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
w14917 Xin Meng
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The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment using China's Great Famine
w14914 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph Kaboski
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Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors
w14899 Nathan Nunn
The Importance of History for Economic Development
w14887 Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Elias Papaioannou
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Financial Regulation, Financial Globalization and the Synchronization of Economic Activity
w14850 Kaivan Munshi
Mark Rosenzweig

Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth
w14822 Francisco J. Buera
Joseph P. Kaboski

The Rise of the Service Economy
w14801 Christopher Blattman
Edward Miguel

Civil War
w14785 Timothy J. Hatton
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
w14783 Nathan Nunn
Leonard Wantchekon

The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
w14766 Jeffrey G. Williamson
History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491
w14748 David S. Jacks
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
w14720 John F. Helliwell
Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh
Anthony Harris
Haifang Huang

International Evidence on the Social Context of Well-Being
w14707 Pascaline Dupas
Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
w14702 Marco Manacorda
Edward Miguel
Andrea Vigorito

Government Transfers and Political Support
w14693 Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson

Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
w14690 Angus S. Deaton
Instruments of development: Randomization in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development
w14640 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Michael Haines
Robert A. Margo

Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
w14638 William D. Nordhaus
The Perils of the Learning Model For Modeling Endogenous Technological Change
w14637 Angus Deaton
Jane Fortson
Robert Tortora

Life (evaluation), HIV/AIDS, and Death in Africa
w14633 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
2008
w14606 Eli Berman
Jacob N. Shapiro
Joseph H. Felter

Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq
w14604 Peter Blair Henry
Conrad Miller

Institutions vs. Policies: A Tale of Two Islands
w14585 Timothy J. Besley
Torsten Persson

The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence
w14553 Harald Uhlig
The Slow Decline of East Germany
w14546 Marcos Chamon
Eswar Prasad

Why are Saving Rates of Urban Households in China Rising?
w14537 Chiaki Moriguchi
Top Wage Incomes in Japan, 1951-2005
w14536 Richard H. Steckel
Heights and Human Welfare: Recent Developments and New Directions
w14527 Hans Fehr
Sabine Jokisch
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Dynamic Globalization and Its Potentially Alarming Prospects for Low-Wage Workers
w14520 Rafael La Porta
Andrei Shleifer

The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development
w14507 John F. Helliwell
Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development
w14481 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jan Svejnar
Katherine Terrell

Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
w14475 Esther Duflo
Pascaline Dupas
Michael Kremer

Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
w14469 Bryan S. Graham
James Powell

Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models
w14467 Abhijit V. Banerjee
Esther Duflo

The Experimental Approach to Development Economics
w14456 Anne Case
Anu Garrib
Alicia Menendez
Analia Olgiati

Paying the Piper: The High Cost of Funerals in South Africa
w14426 David von Below
Torsten Persson

Uncertainty, Climate Change and the Global Economy
w14418 Maurice Kugler
Eric Verhoogen

The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
w14363 William Easterly
Can the West Save Africa?
w14347 Raghuram G. Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
w14311 Abhijit Banerjee
Rukmini Banerji
Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Stuti Khemani

Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence From a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
w14335 Kaivan Munshi
Mark Rosenzweig

The Efficacy of Parochial Politics: Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
w14278 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

Long Term Persistence
w14248 Chinhui Juhn
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan
Belgi Turan

HIV and Fertility in Africa: First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
w14198 Lori A. Beaman
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay
Esther Duflo
Rohini Pande
Petia Topalova

Powerful Women: Does Exposure Reduce Bias?
w14157 Anupam Jena
Casey Mulligan
Tomas J. Philipson
Eric Sun

The Value of Life in General Equilibrium
w14138 Benjamin F. Jones
The Knowledge Trap: Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
w14136 Leo Feler
J. Vernon Henderson

Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities
w14135 Fernando E. Alvarez
Francisco J. Buera
Robert E. Lucas
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Models of Idea Flows
w14133 Robert E. Lucas
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Ideas and Growth
w14132 Melissa Dell
Benjamin F. Jones
Benjamin A. Olken

Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
w14130 David Y. Albouy
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
w14116 Eric Bond
James R. Tybout
Hâle Utar

Credit Rationing, Risk Aversion and Industrial Evolution in Developing Countries
w14109 Robert Koopman
Zhi Wang
Shang-Jin Wei

How Much of Chinese Exports is Really Made In China? Assessing Domestic Value-Added When Processing Trade is Pervasive
w14107 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
w14093 Ryan D. Edwards
The Cost of Uncertain Life Span
w14090 Kris J. Mitchener
Mari Ohnuki

Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
w14131 Naci H. Mocan
Vengeance
w14060 Laura Alfaro
Andrew Charlton
Fabio Kanczuk

Plant-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
w14050 Dani Rodrik
Second-Best Institutions
w14045 James E. Anderson
Does Trade Foster Contract Enforcement?
w14039 Karin Mayr
Giovanni Peri

Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
w14031 Sharon L. Maccini
Dean Yang

Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
w14011 Seema Jayachandran
Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
w13999 Pedro Dal Bó
Andrew Foster
Louis Putterman

Institutions and Behavior: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Democracy
w13998 Boyan Jovanovic
Peter L. Rousseau

Specific Capital and Technological Variety
w13992 William Easterly
Shanker Satyanath
Daniel Berger

Superpower Interventions and their Consequences for Democracy: An Empirical Inquiry
w13958 Jikun Huang
Yu Liu
Will Martin
Scott Rozelle

Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity: Lessons from China
w13947 Seema Jayachandran
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence From Maternal Mortality Declines
w13930 Gary Richardson
Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution
w13905 Raj Arunachalam
Trevon Logan

Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
w13838 Erica M. Field
Omar Robles
Máximo Torero

The Cognitive Link Between Geography and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Tanzania
w13834 Charles I. Jones
Intermediate Goods, Weak Links, and Superstars: A Theory of Economic Development
w13828 Tanika Chakraborty
Sukkoo Kim

Caste, Kinship and Sex Ratios in India
w13771 Zhi Wang
Shang-Jin Wei

What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?
w13769 J. Vernon Henderson
Anthony Venables

The Dynamics of City Formation
w13725 Eli Berman
David D. Laitin

Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
w13719 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
Klara Sabirianova Peter

Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
2007
w13702 Lucian A. Bebchuk
Zvika Neeman

Investor Protection and Interest Group Politics
w13686 Jan Eeckhout
Boyan Jovanovic

Occupational Choice and Development
w13683 Abhijit V. Banerjee
Esther Duflo

Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
w13680 Larry E. Jones
Alice Schoonbroodt

Complements versus Substitutes and Trends in Fertility Choice in Dynastic Models
w13581 John Whalley
Li Wang

Evaluating the Impure Chinese VAT Relative to a Pure Form in a Simple Monetary Trade Model with an Endogenous Trade Surplus
w13552 Robert C. Feenstra
Chang Hong

China's Exports and Employment
w13550 Branko Milanovic
Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Measuring Ancient Inequality
w13547 Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby

Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration
w13545 Joana Naritomi
Rodrigo R. Soares
Juliano J. Assunção

Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions: Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
w13533 Ernesto F. L. Amaral
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Joseph E. Potter
Eduardo L.G. Rios-Neto

Demographic Change and the Structure of Wages: A Demand-Theoretic Analysis for Brazil
w13515 Ellen McGrattan
Edward C. Prescott

Openness, Technology Capital, and Development
w13498 Sandra G. Sosa-Rubi
Omar Galarraga
Jeffrey E. Harris

Heterogeneous Impact of the "Seguro Popular" Program on the Utilization of Obstetrical Services in Mexico, 2001-2006: A Multinomial Probit Model with a Discrete Endogenous Variable
w13470 Lee Branstetter
C. Fritz Foley

Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
w13469 Charles R. Hulten
Anders Isaksson

Why Development Levels Differ: The Sources of Differential Economic Growth in a Panel of High and Low Income Countries
w13454 Hans-Werner Sinn
Public Policies against Global Warming
w13453 Hans-Werner Sinn
Pareto Optimality in the Extraction of Fossil Fuels and the Greenhouse Effect: A Note
w13446 Raymond Fisman
Shang-Jin Wei

The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling: Uncovering the Illicit Trade in Cultural Property and Antiques
w13442 Cally Ardington
Anne Case
Victoria Hosegood

Labor Supply Responses to Large Social Transfers: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa
w13435 Joseph P.H. Fan
Randall Morck
Lixin Colin Xu
Bernard Yeung

Institutions and Foreign Investment: China versus the World
w13405 Thomas Philippon
Why Has the U.S. Financial Sector Grown so Much? The Role of Corporate Finance.
w13400 Pierre-Richard Agénor
Joshua Aizenman

Aid Volatility and Poverty Traps
w13367 Nathan Nunn
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
w13355 Stefano DellaVigna
Eliana La Ferrara

Detecting Illegal Arms Trade
w13334 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
Pierre Yared

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
w13319 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke

To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
w13317 Angus Deaton
Income, Aging, Health and Wellbeing Around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
w13306 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa
w13305 Robert Jensen
Emily Oster

The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women's Status in India
w13303 Miguel Urquiola
Eric Verhoogen

Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
w13300 Paul Glewwe
Michael Kremer
Sylvie Moulin

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya
w13299 Thorsten Beck
Ross Levine
Alexey Levkov

Big Bad Banks? The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution
w13290 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Peter J. Klenow

Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
w13286 Robert E. Lucas
Jr.

Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution
w13243 Robert T. Jensen
Nolan H. Miller

Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence
w13222 Garth Frazer
Johannes Van Biesebroeck

Trade Growth under the African Growth and Opportunity Act
w13209 Kiminori Matsuyama
Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections
w13208 Daron Acemoglu
María Angélica Bautista
Pablo Querubín
James A. Robinson

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
w13171 Randall Morck
Masao Nakamura

Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
w13150 Torsten Persson
Guido Tabellini

The Growth Effect of Democracy: Is It Heterogenous and How Can It Be Estimated?
w13145 Benjamin A. Olken
Patrick Barron

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
w13120 Simon Johnson
Jonathan D. Ostry
Arvind Subramanian

The Prospects for Sustained Growth in Africa: Benchmarking the Constraints
w13118 Laura Alfaro
Andrew Charlton

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
w13104 Jeremy Greenwood
Juan M. Sanchez
Cheng Wang

Financing Development: The Role of Information Costs
w13103 David Dollar
Shang-Jin Wei

Das (Wasted) Kapital: Firm Ownership and Investment Efficiency in China
w13100 Jeffrey A. Frankel
Shang-Jin Wei

Assessing China's Exchange Rate Regime
w13087 Rodrigo R. Soares
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
w13084 Joshua Aizenman
Mark Spiegel

Takeoffs
w13081 Veronica Cacdac Warnock
Francis E. Warnock

Markets and Housing Finance
w13070 Una Okonkwo Osili
Bridget Terry Long

Does Female Schooling Reduce Fertility? Evidence from Nigeria
w13065 Kaivan Munshi
From Farming to International Business: The Social Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Growing Economy
w13049 Emily Oster
HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?
w13034 Jennifer Hunt
Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda
w13028 Timothy Besley
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The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics
w13018 Diego Restuccia
Richard Rogerson

Policy Distortions and Aggregate Productivity with Heterogeneous Plants
w12966 Carlos Bozzoli
Angus S. Deaton
Climent Quintana-Domeque

Child Mortality, Income and Adult Height
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Globalization and Poverty
w12943 Barry Bosworth
Susan M. Collins

Accounting for Growth: Comparing China and India
w12926 Eric V. Edmonds
Child Labor
w12917 Matthias Doepke
Fabrizio Zilibotti

Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
w12914 David Hummels
Volodymyr Lugovskyy
Alexandre Skiba

The Trade Reducing Effects of Market Power in International Shipping
w12911 Abhijit Banerjee
Lakshmi Iyer
Rohini Somanathan

Public Action for Public Goods
w12895 Abhijit Banerjee
Esther Duflo
Gilles Postel-Vinay
Timothy M. Watts

Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France
w12886 Diego Comin
Bart Hobijn

Implementing Technology
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Natalia Trofimenko

Teaching Locals New Tricks: Foreign Experts as a Channel of Knowledge Transfers
w12871 Jess Benhabib
Boyan Jovanovic

Optimal Migration: A World Perspective
w12869 Isaac Ehrlich
Jinyoung Kim

Has Social Security Influenced Family Formation and Fertility in OECD Countries? An Economic and Econometric Analysis
w12868 Isaac Ehrlich
The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century
w12851 Efraim Benmelech
Tobias J. Moskowitz

The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century
w12833 Francesco Caselli
Nicola Gennaioli

Economics and Politics of Alternative Institutional Reforms
w12832 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development
w12818 Raymond Fisman
Peter Moustakerski
Shang-Jin Wei

Outsourcing Tariff Evasion: A New Explanation for Entrepot Trade
2006
w12795 Douglass C. North
John Joseph Wallis
Barry R. Weingast

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
w12794 Dean Yang
Coping with Disaster: The Impact of Hurricanes on International Financial Flows, 1970-2002
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Rachel Glennerster
Michael Kremer

Using Randomization in Development Economics Research: A Toolkit
w12779 John Whalley
Ximing Yue

Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China
w12755 Chong-En Bai
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Yingyi Qian

The Return to Capital in China
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Does Increased Access Increase Equality? Gender and Child Health Investments in India
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Victor Lavy
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Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing Countries
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Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies
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Capital Account Liberalization: Theory, Evidence, and Speculation
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AIDS Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations: Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya
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Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-Term Income: Evidence from Rural China
w12613 Shilpi Kapur
Sukkoo Kim

British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India
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John H. Coatsworth
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
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Deposit Insurance and the Composition of Bank Suspensions in Developing Economies: Lessons from the State Deposit Insurance Experiments of the 1920S
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Commercial Policy in a Predatory World
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The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear
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Trade, Growth, and Convergence in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model
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Demographics in Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Models: Overlapping Generations Versus Infinitely Lived Consumers
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Understanding South Africa's Economic Puzzles
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Francis E. Warnock

Local Currency Bond Markets
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Foreign Participation in Local Currency Bond Markets
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Bruce Sacerdote

Colonialism and Modern Income -- Islands as Natural Experiments
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Natalya Volchkova
Luigi Zingales

The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia
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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down
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Taryn Dinkelman
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When Knowledge is not Enough: HIV/AIDS Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana
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Skill Acquisition, Credit Constraints, and Trade
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Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

Big Business Stability and Economic Growth: Is What's Good for General Motors Good for America?
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China's Embrace of Globalization
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Globalization and Poverty
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment: Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
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An Exploration of Technology Diffusion
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Judicial Risk and Credit Market Performance: Micro Evidence from Brazilian Payroll Loans
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U.S.-Based Private Voluntary Organizations: Religious and Secular PVOs Engaged in International Relief & Development
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Monetary Unions, External Shocks and Economic Performance: A Latin American Perspective
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AIDS, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development: Evidence from Africa
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Guido Tabellini

Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change
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The Diffusion of Development
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Why China is Likely to Achieve its Growth Objectives
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"Sick of Local Government Corruption? Vote Islamic"
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Jonathan A. Parker

Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdeveloped Country: Evidence from the Chilean Investment Boom
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Rent Preservation and the Persistence of Underdevelopment
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Edward C. Prescott

The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy
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Joshua Rosenbloom
Thomas Weiss

Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800
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Down or Out: Assessing the Welfare Costs of Household Investment Mistakes
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India's Patterns of Development: What Happened, What Follows
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Aimee Chin
Ricardo Godoy

Is Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto Rican Language Gap?
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Democracy and Development: The Devil in the Details
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The Determinants of Mortality
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Modeling Inefficient Institutions
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Shawn Cole
Esther Duflo
Leigh Linden

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India
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Vadym Volosovych

Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries? An Empirical Investigation
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Is Financial Globalization Beneficial?
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Joshua Graff-Zivin
Markus Goldstein

The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labor Supply in Western Kenya
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies
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Market Structure, Outgrower contracs and Farm Output. Evidence from Cotton Reforms in Zambia
w11774 Bee Yan Aw
Mark J. Roberts
Tor Winston

The Complementary Role of Exports and R&D Investments as Sources of Productivity Growth
w11711 Esther Duflo
Rohini Pande

Dams
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Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia
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Capital Flows in a Globalized World: The Role of Policies and Institutions
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The End of Large Current Account Deficits, 1970-2002: Are There Lessons for the United States?
w11661 Roger Gordon
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Puzzling Tax Structures in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Two Alternative Explanations
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Factor Adjustments After Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
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Guillaume Vandenbroucke

Hours Worked: Long-Run Trends
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Romain Wacziarg

Death and Development
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Eat, Drink, Firms and Government: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
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Endogenous Fertility, Mortality and Economic Growth: Can a Malthusian Framework Account for the Conflicting Historical Trends in Population?
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Charles Yuji Horioka

Borrowing Constraints and Consumption Behavior in Japan
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The Marginal Product of Capital
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Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? And If Not, How Costly is Adjustment Likely To Be?
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Benjamin A. Olken

The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth
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Law, Endowments, and Property Rights
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Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending
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Political Competition and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence from the United States
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Gregory W. Stutes

Reexamining the Distribution of Wealth in 1870
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Accounting for the Effect of Health on Economic Growth
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Managerial Skill Acquisition and the Theory of Economic Development
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Antonio Naude

Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States
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Incomes in South Africa Since the Fall of Apartheid
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George-Marios Angeletos
Abhijit Banerjee
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Volatility and Growth: Credit Constraints and Productivity-Enhancing Investment
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Pablo Spiller
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Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation
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Alix Peterson Zwane
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My Policies or Yours: Does OECD Support for Agriculture Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?
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Advanced Purchase Commitments for a Malaria Vaccine: Estimating Costs and Effectiveness
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Tax Structure in Developing Countries: Many Puzzles and a Possible Explanation
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Constitutions, Politics and Economics: A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini's "The Economic Effect of Constitutions"
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
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Simon Johnson
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Income and Democracy
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Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson
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From Education to Democracy?
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Fertility and Social Security
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Social Security, Demographic Trends, and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence from the International Experience
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Does Food Aid Harm the Poor? Household Evidence from Ethiopia
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Is Poland the Next Spain?
2004
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Andres Rodriguez-Clare

Externalities and Growth
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Alvaro Riascos
James A. Schmitz
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Latin America in the Rearview Mirror
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The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations
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Campbell R. Harvey
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Global Growth Opportunities and Market Integration
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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth
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Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor
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Asli Demirguc-Kunt
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Finance, Inequality, and Poverty: Cross-Country Evidence
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Edward Miguel
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Incentives to Learn
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Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works
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Virginia Sarria-Allende

Regulation of Entry and the Distortion of Industrial Organization
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Hiccups for HIPCs?
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Cesar A. Perez

Unbalanced Growth
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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective
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Globalization, Macroeconomic Performance, and the Exchange Rates of Emerging Economies
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
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Raven Saks

Corruption in America
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Roger Martin

Jurisdictional Advantage
w10793 Jeremy Greenwood
Gokce Uysal

New Goods and the Transition to a New Economy
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Edward L. Glaeser
Claudia Goldin

The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered
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Wolfgang Keller

Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
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Claudia Goldin

Corruption and Reform: An Introduction
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Nezih Guner

Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households
w10766 Ross Levine
Finance and Growth: Theory and Evidence
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High Performing Asian Economies
w10733 Diego Comin
Bart Hobijn

Neoclassical Growth and the Adoption of Technologies
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Daniel Wolfenzon
Bernard Yeung

Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment and Growth
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Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
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Guido Tabellini

Economic and Political Liberalizations
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Education for Innovation: Entrepreneurial Breakthroughs vs. Corporate Incremental Improvements
w10568 Edward L. Glaeser
Rafael La Porta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Andrei Shleifer

Do Institutions Cause Growth?
w10566 Ricardo Hausmann
Lant Pritchett
Dani Rodrik

Growth Accelerations
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M. Scott Taylor

The Green Solow Model
w10551 William M. Gentry
R. Glenn Hubbard

"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation
w10510 Jennifer Hunt
Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime
w10498 Esther Duflo
Christopher Udry

Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices
w10485 Steven N. Durlauf
Marcel Fafchamps

Social Capital
w10455 Murat Iyigun
Dani Rodrik

On the Efficacy of Reforms: Policy Tinkering, Institutional Change, and Entrepreneurship
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Rachel M. McCleary

Which Countries Have State Religions?
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John Haltiwanger
Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler

The Effect of Structural Reforms on Productivity and Profitability Enhancing Reallocation: Evidence from Colombia
w10300 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison
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Inessa Love

Financial Development and Growth in the Short and Long Run
w10208 Chin Hee Hahn
Exporting and Performance of Plants: Evidence from Korean Manufacturing
2003
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Reinventing Boston: 1640-2003
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Ivan Werning
George-Marios Angeletos

Commitment Vs. Flexibility
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Rachel M. McCleary

International Determinants of Religiosity
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James A. Robinson
Thierry Verdier

Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule
w10077 Mauricio Cardenas
Raquel Bernal

Determinants of Labor Demand in Colombia: 1976-1996
w10064 Peter Blair Henry
Peter Lombard Lorentzen

Domestic Capital Market Reform and Access to Global Finance: Making Markets Work
w10050 Dani Rodrik
Growth Strategies
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The Form of Property Rights: Oligarchic vs. Democratic Societies
w10020 Johannes Van Biesebroeck
Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants
w9865 Elsa V. Artadi
Xavier Sala-i-Martin

The Economic Tragedy of the XXth Century: Growth in Africa
w9822 Angus Deaton
Measuring Poverty in a Growing World (or Measuring Growth in a Poor World)
w9804 Xavier Sala-i-Martin
Arvind Subramanian

Addressing the Natural Resource Curse: An Illustration from Nigeria
w9775 Rafael LaPorta
Florencio Lopez-de-Silane
Cristian Pop-Eleches
Andrei Shleifer

Judicial Checks and Balances
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Ideas and Education: Level or Growth Effects?
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Peter J. Klenow

Relative Prices and Relative Prosperity
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Rachel McCleary

Religion and Economic Growth
w9621 Tetsushi Sonobe
Keijiro Otsuka

Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization: The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
w9597 William A. Brock
M. Scott Taylor

The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth
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What Can Be Learned from Skeletons that Might Interest Economists, Historians and Other Social Scientists?
w9490 Jeffrey D. Sachs
Institutions Don't Rule: Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income
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Ari Kokko

The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives
w9417 Robert E. Lipsey
Fredrik Sjoholm

Foreign Firms and Indonesian Manufacturing Wages: An Analysis With Panel Data
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Simon Johnson
James Robinson

The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth
w9305 Dani Rodrik
Arvind Subramanian
Francesco Trebbi

Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
w9269 Philippe Aghion
Nicholas Bloom
Richard Blundell
Rachel Griffith
Peter Howitt

Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship
w9134 Sharun Mukand
Dani Rodrik

In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance
w9124 Daron Acemoglu
Simon Johnson
James Robinson
Yunyong Thaicharoen

Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth
w9117 Margaret McMillan
Dani Rodrik
Karen Horn Welch

When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique
w9106 William Easterly
Ross Levine

Tropics, Germs, and Crops: How Endowments Influence Economic Development
w9104 Peter Howitt
David Mayer-Foulkes

R&D, Implementation and Stagnation: A Schumpeterian Theory of Convergence Clubs
w9086 Kala Krishna
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Cemile Yavas

Trade with Labor Market Distortions and Heterogeneous Labor: Why Trade Can Hurt
w9082 Thorsten Beck
Ross Levine

Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth: Panel Evidence
w8995 Kala Krishna
Cemile Yavas

When Does Trade Hurt? Market, Transition and Developing Economies
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Dani Rodrik

Economic Development as Self-Discovery
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Rachel M. McCleary

Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel
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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China
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Kenneth L. Sokoloff

Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia: A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data
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David Canning
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The Wealth of Nations: Fundamental Forces Versus Poverty Traps
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The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion: Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia
w8707 Chun-Chung Au
Vernon Henderson

How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration and Productivity in China
2001
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Globalization and Inequality: Evidence from Within China
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Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
w8330 Robert J. Barro
Economic Growth in East Asia Before and After the Financial Crisis
w8299 Robert E. Lipsey
Fredrik Sjoholm

Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Indonesian Manufacturing
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Campbell R. Harvey
Christian Lundblad

Does Financial Liberalization Spur Growth?
w8178 Raghuram G. Rajan
Luigi Zingales

The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century
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Tropical Underdevelopment
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Jeffrey D. Sachs

Institutions and Geography: Comment on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2000)
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Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-household Allocation in South Africa
w8001 David F. Bradford
Rebecca Schlieckert
Stephen H. Shore

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Exploring A Fresh Specification
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Meghan R. Busse

Who Wins the Olympic Games: Economic Development and Medal Totals
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Jong-Wha Lee

International Data on Educational Attainment Updates and Implications
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Simon Johnson
James A. Robinson

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
w7711 William Harbaugh
Arik Levinson
David Wilson

Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve
w7642 Dan Ben-David
Ayal Kimhi

Trade and the Rate of Income Convergence
w7563 Luigi Guiso
Paola Sapienza
Luigi Zingales

The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
w7544 Daron Acemoglu
Labor- and Capital- Augmenting Technical Change
w7540 Dani Rodrik
Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They are and How to Acquire Them
w7530 Michael Kremer
Daniel Chen

Income-distribution Dynamics with Endogenous Fertility
w7503 J. Vernon Henderson
The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
w7468 Boyan Jovanovic
Growth Theory
1999
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Sylaja Srinivasan

Indian Manufacturing Industry: Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
w7401 Anne Case
I-Fen Lin
Sara McLanahan

How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
w7399 Anne Case
Motohiro Yogo

Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Schools in South Africa
w6729 Takatoshi Ito
Eiji Ogawa
Yuri Nagataki Sasaki

How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?
w7224 Matthew Higgins
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, andOpenness
w7093 Daniel Kaufmann
Shang-Jin Wei

Does "Grease Money" Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?
w7018 Daron Acemoglu
Patterns of Skill Premia
w6930 Martin Feldstein
Public Policies and Private Saving in Mexico
w6879 Daron Acemoglu
Fabrizio Zilbotti

Productivity Differences
1998
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Edward C. Prescott

Malthus to Solow
w6849 John Luke Gallup
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Andrew D. Mellinger

Geography and Economic Development
w6816 Magnus Blomstrom
Fredrik Sjoholm

Technology Transfer and Spillovers? Does Local Participation with Multinationals Matter?
w6811 Oded Galor
David N. Weil

Population, Technology, and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition and Beyond
w6558 Bee Yan Aw
Sukkyun Chung
Mark J. Roberts

Productivity and the Decision to Export: Micro Evidence from Taiwan and South Korea
w6498 Aaron Tornell
Philip R. Lane

Voracity and Growth
1997
w6271 Edward Glaeser
Learning in Cities
w6268 David E. Bloom
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Demographic Transitions and Economic Miracles in Emerging Asia
w6266 Dan Ben-David
David H. Papell

Slowdowns and Meltdowns: Postwar Growth Evidence from 74 Countries
w6235 Bee Yan Aw
Xiaomin Chen
Mark J. Roberts

Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials, Turnover, and Exports in Taiwanese Manufacturing
w6202 Yusheng Peng
Lynne G. Zucker
Michael R. Darby

Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers
w6178 Olivia S. Mitchell
James F. Moore

Retirement Wealth Accumulation and Decumulation: New Developments and Outstanding Opportunities
w6159 Piyabha Kongsamut
Sergio Rebelo
Danyang Xie

Beyond Balanced Growth
w6093 Donald R. Davis
David E. Weinstein

Economic Geography and Reginal Production Structure: An Empirical Investigation
w6076 Donald R. Davis
The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure
w6035 Paul Gertler
Jonathan Gruber

Insuring Consumption Against Illness
w6026 John Shea
Does Parents' Money Matter?
1996
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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces
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David Romer
Teresa Cyrus

Trade and Growth in East Asian Countries: Cause and Effect?
w5697 Kiminori Matsuyama
Why Are There Rich and Poor Countries? Symmetry-Breaking in the World Economy
w5693 Donald R. Davis
Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution
w5658 Roland Benabou
Inequality and Growth
hend96-1 Patric Hendershott
Public Policy and the Housing Market
w5562 Jess Gaspar
Edward Glaeser

Information Technology and the Future of Cities
rogo96-1 Kenneth Rogoff and Charles Wyplosz
editors

International Seminar on Macroeconomics 1995
w5428 Michael Kremer
Integrating Behavioral Choice into Epidemiological Models of the AIDS Epidemic
1995
w5148 David E. Bloom
Ajay S. Mahal

Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?
w5057 Eduardo Borensztein
Jose De Gregorio
Jong-Wha Lee

How Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Economic Growth?
w5049 Jonathan Eaton
Samuel Kortum

Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD
1994
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Samuel Kortum

International Patenting and Technology Diffusion
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Three Phases of Argentine Economic Growth
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Localization Economies, Vertical Organization and Trade
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Olivier Jean Blanchard

On the Speed of Transition Central Europe
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Balanced and Unbalanced Growth
1993
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The Role of Macroeconomic Factors in Growth
w4484 Kiminori Matsuyama
Takaaki Takahashi

Self-Defeating Regional Concentration
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New Goods, Old Theory, and the Welfare Costs of Trade Restrictions
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Kiminori Matsuyama

Start-Up Costs and Pecuniary Externalities as Barriers to Economic Development
1992
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Kenneth L. Sokoloff

'Schemes of Practical Utility': Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among 'Great Inventors' in the United States, 1790-1865
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Dani Rodrik

Debt Reduction, Adjustment Lending, and Burden Sharing
w3951 Kathryn M. Dominguez
The Role of International Organizations in the Bretton Woods System
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The Rush to Free Trade in the Developing World: Why So Late? Why Now? Will it Last?
1991
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Economic Development, Urban Underemployment, and Income Inequality
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Dani Rodrik

Do the Benefits of Fixed Exchange Rates Outweigh Their Costs? The Franc Zone in Africa
1975
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Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development: Egypt
1970
thor70-1 Erik Thorbecke
editor

The Role of Agriculture in Economic Development
hans70-1 W. Lee Hansen
editor

Education, Income, and Human Capital
1962
hanc62-1 George Hanc
The United States Savings Bond Program in the Postwar Period
1961
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assisted by Donald P. Jacobs

Real Wages in Manufacturing, 1890-1914
1957
tost57-1 Alvin S. Tostlebe
Capital in Agriculture: Its Formation and Financing since 1870
hort57-1 Donald C. Horton
Patterns of Farm Financial Structure: A Cross-Section View of Economic and Physical Determinants
1954
tost54-1 Alvin S. Tostlebe
The Growth of Physical Capital in Agriculture, 1870-1950
1953
hult53-1 Thor Hultgren and William I. Greenwald
Transport and the State of Trade in Britain
hick53-1 W. Braddock Hickman
The Volume of Corporate Bond Financing Since 1900
1952
hick52-1 W. Braddock Hickman
Trends and Cycles in Corporate Bond Financing
1948
hult48-1 Thor Hultgren
American Transportation in Prosperity and Depression
hann48-1 Frank A. Hanna
Joseph A. Pechman
and Sidney M. Lerner

Analysis of Wisconsin Income (Studies in Income and Wealth, vol. 9)
1944
hult44-1 Thor Hultgren
Railway Traffic Expansion and Use of Resources in World War II
1943
hult43-1 Thor Hultgren
Railroad Travel and the State of Business
1942
hult42-1 Thor Hultgren
Railway Freight Traffic in Prosperity and Depression
1931
will31-1 Walter F. Willcox
editor

International Migrations, Volume II: Interpretations

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