NBER Papers in JEL Code O5: Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - Economywide Country Studies

2022
w29749 Fernando M. Aragón
Diego Restuccia
Juan Pablo Rud

Assessing Misallocation in Agriculture: Plots versus Farms
w29731 Zhiguo He
Bibo Liu
Feifei Zhu

Share Pledging in China: Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship?
w29677 Leander Heldring
James A. Robinson
Parker J. Whitfill

The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain
w29646 Robert C. Feenstra
Luca Macedoni
Mingzhi Xu

Large Firms, Consumer Heterogeneity and the Rising Share of Profits
2021
w29597 Arpit Gupta
Anup Malani
Bartosz Woda

Inequality in India Declined During COVID
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
w29451 Ángel Cuevas
Rubén Cuevas
Klaus Desmet
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

The Gender Gap in Preferences: Evidence from 45,397 Facebook Interests
w29252 Minho Kim
Munseob Lee
Yongseok Shin

The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy: The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973
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
w29135 Santiago Hermo
Miika M. Päällysaho
David G. Seim
Jesse M. Shapiro

Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence
w29061 Julieta Caunedo
Namrata Kala

Mechanizing Agriculture
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
w28969 Nuno Limão
Yang Xu

Size, Trade, Technology and the Division of Labor
w28935 Arpit Gupta
Anup Malani
Bartek Woda

Explaining the Income and Consumption Effects of COVID in India
w28631 Soeren J. Henn
Christian Mastaki Mugaruka
Miguel Ortiz
Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra
David Qihang Wu

On the Ends of the State: Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo
w28547 Ruixue Jia
Xiaohuan Lan
Gerard Padró I Miquel

Doing Business in China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses
w28370 Martin Ravallion
Poverty in China since 1950: A Counterfactual Perspective
2020
w28301 Marta A. Santamaría
Jaume Ventura
Uğur Yeşilbayraktar

Borders within Europe
w28290 Nikolas Zolas
Zachary Kroff
Erik Brynjolfsson
Kristina McElheran
David N. Beede
Cathy Buffington
Nathan Goldschlag
Lucia Foster
Emin Dinlersoz

Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey
w28270 Alberto Alesina
Sebastian Hohmann
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa
w27832 Nikita Melnikov
Carlos Schmidt-Padilla
Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
w27767 Pei-Ju Liao
Ping Wang
Yin-Chi Wang
Chong Kee Yip

To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
w27696 Minu Philip
Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian

Decoding India's Low Covid-19 Case Fatality rate
w27665 Zhiguo He
Maggie Rong Hu
Zhenping Wang
Vincent Yao

Valuation of Long-Term Property Rights under Political Uncertainty
w27561 Gang Liu
Barbara M. Fraumeni

A Brief Introduction to Human Capital Measures
w27548 Felipe Barrera-Osorio
Adriana D. Kugler
Mikko I. Silliman

Hard and Soft Skills in Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia
w27425 Robert J. Gordon
Hassan Sayed

Transatlantic Technologies: The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth
w27404 Michael König
Zheng Michael Song
Kjetil Storesletten
Fabrizio Zilibotti

From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is all that Chinese R&D Going?
w27282 Debraj Ray
S. Subramanian

India's Lockdown: An Interim Report
w27206 Julian M. Alston
Philip G. Pardey

Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
w27153 William Easterly
Steven Pennings

Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders
w27015 Peter J. Klenow
Huiyu Li

Innovative Growth Accounting
w26733 Oriana Bandiera
Michael Carlos Best
Adnan Qadir Khan
Andrea Prat

The Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
w26711 Mark Bils
Peter J. Klenow
Cian Ruane

Misallocation or Mismeasurement?
2019
w26503 Thomas F. Cooley
Espen Henriksen
Charlie Nusbaum

Demographic Obstacles to European Growth
w26448 Philippe Aghion
Antonin Bergeaud
Timo Boppart
Peter J. Klenow
Huiyu Li

A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents
w26359 Marek Kapička
Finn Kydland
Carlos Zarazaga

Exploring The Role of Limited Commitment Constraints in Argentina's "Missing Capital"
w26339 Martín Caruso
Sebastian Galiani
Federico Weinschelbaum

Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality: Evidence for Latin America
w26331 Fernando M. Aragon Sanchez
Diego Restuccia
Juan Pablo Rud

Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms?
w26304 Namrata Kala
The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes
w26293 Christopher Blattman
Horacio Larreguy
Benjamin Marx
Otis R. Reid

Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
w26271 Conrad Miller
Jennifer Peck
Mehmet Seflek

Integration Costs and Missing Women in Firms
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
w26205 Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Tong Liu
Yingquan Song
Qu Tang
Peng Zhang

The Unintended Impacts of Agricultural Fires: Human Capital in China
w26199 José Andrée Camarena
Luciana Galeano
Luis Morano
Jorge Puig
Daniel Riera-Crichton
Carlos Vegh
Lucila Venturi
Guillermo Vuletin

Fooled by the Cycle: Permanent versus Cyclical Improvements in Social Indicators
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.
w26148 Binkai Chen
Ming Lu
Christopher Timmins
Kuanhu Xiang

Spatial Misallocation: Evaluating Place-Based Policies Using a Natural Experiment in China
w26066 Kibrom A. Abay
Leah Bevis
Christopher B. Barrett

Measurement Error Mechanisms Matter: Agricultural Intensification with Farmer Misperceptions and Misreporting
w26061 Enrico Spolaore
Commanding Nature by Obeying Her: A Review Essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth
w25998 Pedro Bento
Diego Restuccia

The Role of Nonemployers in Business Dynamism and Aggregate Productivity
w25780 Tasso Adamopoulos
Diego Restuccia

Land Reform and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data
w25703 Robert J. Gordon
Hassan Sayed

The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown
w25680 Takeo Hoshi
Kozo Kiyota

Potential for Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Japan
w25669 Haseeb Ahmed
Benjamin W. Cowan

Mobile Money and Healthcare Use: Evidence from East Africa
w25640 Martin Ravallion
Ethnic Inequality and Poverty in Malaysia Since 1969
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
w25549 Marlene Amstad
Zhiguo He

Chinese Bond Market and Interbank Market
w25490 Guillaume Blanc
Romain Wacziarg

Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895
2018
w25295 James Harrigan
Ariell Reshef
Farid Toubal

Techies, Trade, and Skill-Biased Productivity
w25278 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Historical Legacies and African Development
w25193 Fariha Kamal
A Portrait of U.S. Factoryless Goods Producers
w25007 David Yermack
FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn't
w24871 David Autor
Anna Salomons

Is Automation Labor-Displacing? Productivity Growth, Employment, and the Labor Share
w24868 C. Jara Figueroa
Bogang Jun
Edward L. Glaeser
César Hidalgo

The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms
w24744 Douglas Gollin
Casper Worm Hansen
Asger Wingender

Two Blades of Grass: The Impact of the Green Revolution
w24707 Lee G. Branstetter
Britta M. Glennon
J. Bradford Jensen

The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
w24694 Klaus Desmet
Joseph Gomes
Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín

The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods
w24686 Shuai Chen
Paulina Oliva
Peng Zhang

Air Pollution and Mental Health: Evidence from China
w24583 John Strauss
Firman Witoelar
Qinqin Meng
Xinxin Chen
Yaohui Zhao
Bondan Sikoki
Yafeng Wang

Cognition and SES Relationships Among the Mid-Aged and Elderly: A Comparison of China and Indonesia
w24546 Ashantha Ranasinghe
Diego Restuccia

Financial Frictions and the Rule of Law
w24489 Pierre Azoulay
Benjamin Jones
J. Daniel Kim
Javier Miranda

Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship
w24453 Lee Branstetter
Britta Glennon
J. Bradford Jensen

Knowledge Transfer Abroad: The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
w24444 Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Debora Revoltella
Jan Svejnar
Christoph T. Weiss

Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
w24421 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo

Demographics and Automation
w24260 Raluca Dragusanu
Eduardo Montero
Nathan Nunn

The Effects of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
w24209 Jacob Moscona
Nathan Nunn
James A. Robinson

Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa
2017
w24090 Titus J. Galama
Robson Morgan
Juan E. Saavedra

Wealthier, Happier and More Self-Sufficient: When Anti-Poverty Programs Improve Economic and Subjective Wellbeing at a Reduced Cost to Taxpayers
w24034 Chaoran Chen
Diego Restuccia
Raül Santaeulàlia-Llopis

The Effects of Land Markets on Resource Allocation and Agricultural Productivity
w24009 Melissa Dell
Benjamin A. Olken

The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
w23952 Qihua Qiu
Jaesang Sung
Will Davis
Rusty Tchernis

Using Spatial Factor Analysis to Measure Human Development
w23946 Benjamin Marx
Vincent Pons
Tavneet Suri

Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya
w23939 Pei-Ju Liao
Ping Wang
Yin-Chi Wang
Chong Kee Yip

Educational Choice, Rural-urban Migration and Economic Development
w23897 Trevor Burnard
Laura Panza
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774
w23845 Randall Morck
Bernard Yeung

East Asian Financial and Economic Development
w23808 Lee Branstetter
Neil Gandal
Nadav Kuniesky

Network-Mediated Knowledge Spillovers: A Cross-Country Comparative Analysis of Information Security Innovations
w23800 Ross Levine
Chen Lin
Wensi Xie

The Origins of Financial Development: How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance
w23761 John F. Helliwell
Lara B. Aknin
Hugh Shiplett
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

Social Capital and Prosocial Behaviour as Sources of Well-Being
w23712 Filip Novokmet
Thomas Piketty
Gabriel Zucman

From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016
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
w23589 Gustavo J. Bobonis
Paul Gertler
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro
Simeon Nichter

Vulnerability and Clientelism
w23540 Gharad Bryan
Melanie Morten

The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
w23500 Chuantian He
Chunding Li
John Whalley

General Equilibrium Trade Modelling with Canada-US Transportation Costs
w23441 Gerard Roland
David Y. Yang

China's Lost Generation: Changes in Beliefs and their Intergenerational Transmission
w23422 Diego Restuccia
Richard Rogerson

The Causes and Costs of Misallocation
w23416 Laura Panza
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871
w23368 Thomas Piketty
Li Yang
Gabriel Zucman

Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015
w23214 Julio J. Elias
Nicola Lacetera
Mario Macis
Paola Salardi

Economic Development and the Regulation of Morally Contentious Activities
w23128 Chaoran Chen
Diego Restuccia
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

Land Misallocation and Productivity
w23101 Benjamin Faber
Thibault Fally

Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets: Evidence from Home and Store Scanner Data
w23077 Daron Acemoglu
Pascual Restrepo

Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation
w23050 Juan Saavedra
Emma Näslund-Hadley
Mariana Alfonso

Targeted Remedial Education: Experimental Evidence from Peru
w23021 Xinshen Diao
Kenneth Harttgen
Margaret McMillan

The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies
2016
w22953 Daniel Garcia-Macia
Chang-Tai Hsieh
Peter J. Klenow

How Destructive is Innovation?
w22906 Haizheng Li
Junzi He
Qinyi Liu
Barbara M. Fraumeni
Xiang Zheng

Regional Distribution and Dynamics of Human Capital in China 1985-2014: Education, Urbanization, and Aging of the Population
w22889 Xinshen Diao
Josaphat Kweka
Margaret McMillan

Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: Evidence from Tanzania
w22865 Randall Morck
Masao Nakamura

Japan's Ultimately Unaccursed Natural Resources-Financed Industrialization
w22854 Shang-Jin Wei
Zhuan Xie
Xiaobo Zhang

From "Made in China" to "Innovated in China": Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges
w22555 Canyon Bosler
Mary C. Daly
John G. Fernald
Bart Hobijn

The Outlook for U.S. Labor-Quality Growth
w22450 John F. Helliwell
Haifang Huang
Shun Wang

New Evidence on Trust and Well-being
w22443 Eric Avis
Claudio Ferraz
Frederico Finan

Do Government Audits Reduce Corruption? Estimating the Impacts of Exposing Corrupt Politicians
w22417 Nava Ashraf
Natalie Bau
Nathan Nunn
Alessandra Voena

Bride Price and Female Education
w22190 Efraim Benmelech
Esteban F. Klor

What Explains the Flow of Foreign Fighters to ISIS?
w22158 Melanie Morten
Jaqueline Oliveira

Paving the Way to Development: Costly Migration and Labor Market Integration
w22095 Jorge Guzman
Scott Stern

The State of American Entrepreneurship: New Estimates of the Quality and Quantity of Entrepreneurship for 32 US States, 1988-2014
w22049 Taryn Dinkelman
Martine Mariotti

The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin
w22046 Gino Gancia
Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
Jaume Ventura

Globalization and Political Structure
w22027 Maxim Boycko
Robert J. Shiller

Popular Attitudes towards Markets and Democracy: Russia and United States Compared 25 Years Later
w21963 Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
Xiao Yu Wang
Shuang Zhang

The Limits of Meritocracy: Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
w21849 Eli Berman
Mitch Downey
Joseph Felter

Expanding Governance as Development: Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines
2015
w21734 Charles Yuji Horioka
Akiko Terada-Hagiwara
Takaaki Nomoto

Explaining Foreign Holdings of Asia's Debt Securities: The Feldstein-Horioka Paradox Revisited
w21697 Shari Eli
Nicholas Li

Caloric Requirements and Food Consumption Patterns of the Poor
w21657 Keting Shen
Jing Wang
John Whalley

Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
w21608 Daron Acemoglu
Murat Ucer

The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015: Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide
w21607 Adriana Kugler
Maurice Kugler
Juan Saavedra
Luis Omar Herrera Prada

Long-Term Educational Consequences of Vocational Training in Colombia: Impacts on Young Trainees and Their Relatives
w21595 Diego A. Comin
Danial Lashkari
Martí Mestieri

Structural Change with Long-run Income and Price Effects
w21572 Qian Lu
John Joseph Wallis

Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts
w21507 Jamal I. Haidar
Takeo Hoshi

Implementing Structural Reforms in Abenomics: How to Reduce the Cost of Doing Business in Japan
w21460 Shuaizhang Feng
Yingyao Hu
Robert Moffitt

Long Run Trends in Unemployment and Labor Force Participation in China
w21242 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Ancestry, Language and Culture
w21228 Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln
Tarek Alexander Hassan

Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics
w21213 Ewout Frankema
Jeffrey Williamson
Pieter Woltjer

An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble: The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885
w21036 Seema Jayachandran
Rohini Pande

Why Are Indian Children So Short?
w21029 Brian McCaig
Margaret S. McMillan
Iñigo Verduzco-Gallo
Keith Jefferis

Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana
w21018 Xinshen Diao
Margaret McMillan

Toward an Understanding of Economic Growth in Africa: A Re-Interpretation of the Lewis Model
w20986 Thomas Joseph
Yaw Nyarko
Shing-Yi Wang

Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
w20965 Orazio Attanasio
Sarah Cattan
Emla Fitzsimons
Costas Meghir
Marta Rubio-Codina

Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital: Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia
w20957 Jennifer N. Carpenter
Fangzhou Lu
Robert F. Whitelaw

The Real Value of China's Stock Market
w20944 B. Zorina Khan
The Impact of War on Resource Allocation: 'Creative Destruction' and the American Civil War
w20917 Joshua Aizenman
Yothin Jinjarak
Donghyun Park

Financial Development and Output Growth in Developing Asia and Latin America: A Comparative Sectoral Analysis
w20885 Sara Lowes
Nathan Nunn
James A. Robinson
Jonathan Weigel

Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT)
w20821 Era Dabla-Norris
Yan Ji
Robert M. Townsend
D. Filiz Unsal

Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and the Distribution of Income
2014
w20665 Daron Acemoglu
Tarek A. Hassan
Ahmed Tahoun

The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt's Arab Spring
w20658 Peter Temin
The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"
w20621 Lorenz Kueng
Mu-Jeung Yang
Bryan Hong

Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
w20573 Lant Pritchett
Lawrence H. Summers

Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
w20493 Joseph E. Stiglitz
Leaders and Followers: Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
w20388 Suresh Naidu
Yaw Nyarko
Shing-Yi Wang

Worker Mobility in a Global Labor Market: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates
w20344 Sean Lewis-Faupel
Yusuf Neggers
Benjamin A. Olken
Rohini Pande

Can Electronic Procurement Improve Infrastructure Provision? Evidence From Public Works in India and Indonesia
w20327 Kenneth Lee
Eric Brewer
Carson Christiano
Francis Meyo
Edward Miguel
Matthew Podolsky
Javier Rosa
Catherine Wolfram

Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya
w20304 Orazio Attanasio
Britta Augsburg

Holy Cows or Cash Cows?
w20213 Oeindrila Dube
Suresh Naidu

Bases, Bullets and Ballots: the Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia
w20188 Dani Rodrik
An African Growth Miracle?
w20177 Bernard Harris
Roderick Floud
Sok Chul Hong

Food for Thought: Comparing Estimates of Food Availability in England and Wales, 1700-1914
w20050 Abhijit Banerjee
Xin Meng
Tommaso Porzio
Nancy Qian

Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
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
w19924 Alan M. Taylor
The Argentina Paradox: Microexplanations and Macropuzzles
w19861 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Colonial Incomes, 1650-1774
w19840 Anusha Chari
Peter Blair Henry

Two Tales of Adjustment: East Asian Lessons for European Growth
2013
w19688 Charles Y. Horioka
Akiko Terada-Hagiwara

Corporate Cash Holding in Asia
w19657 William R. Kerr
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
w19616 Brian McCaig
Nina Pavcnik

Moving out of Agriculture: Structural Change in Vietnam
w19596 Charles Y. Horioka
Takaaki Nomoto
Akiko Terada-Hagiwara

Why Has Japan's Massive Government Debt Not Wreaked Havoc (Yet)?
w19474 Alberto Cavallo
Eduardo Cavallo
Roberto Rigobon

Prices and Supply Disruptions during Natural Disasters
w19398 Robin Burgess
Remi Jedwab
Edward Miguel
Ameet Morjaria
Gerard Padró i Miquel

The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
w19361 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Long-Term Barriers to Economic Development
w19344 Silvia Prina
Heather Royer

The Importance of Parental Knowledge and Social Norms: Evidence from Weight Report Cards in Mexico
w19288 Ricardo Reis
The Portuguese Slump and Crash and the Euro Crisis
w19160 Xi Zhu
John Whalley
Xiliang Zhao

Intergenerational Transfer, Human Capital and Long-term Growth in China under the One Child Policy
w19090 Anirban Mitra
Debraj Ray

Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
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)
w18966 Alberto Alesina
Paola Giuliano

Family Ties
w18953 Jeremy Greenwood
Philipp Kircher
Cezar Santos
Michèle Tertilt

An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic
w18738 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
w18733 James R. Barth
Gerard Caprio
Jr.
Ross Levine

Bank Regulation and Supervision in 180 Countries from 1999 to 2011
2012
w18602 David Lagakos
Benjamin Moll
Tommaso Porzio
Nancy Qian
Todd Schoellman

Experience Matters: Human Capital and Development Accounting
w18566 Leander Heldring
James A. Robinson

Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa
w18425 Patrick Francois
Ilia Rainer
Francesco Trebbi

How Is Power Shared In Africa?
w18424 Ilia Rainer
Francesco Trebbi

New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
w18417 Felipe Kast
Stephan Meier
Dina Pomeranz

Under-Savers Anonymous: Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
w18405 Charles R. Hulten
Janet X. Hao

The Role Of Intangible Capital in the Transformation and Growth of the Chinese Economy
w18396 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Incomes 1774-1860
w18289 Janvier D. Nkurunziza
Léonce Ndikumana
Prime Nyamoya

The Financial Sector in Burundi
w18287 Takeo Hoshi
Takatoshi Ito

Defying Gravity: How Long Will Japanese Government Bond Prices Remain High?
w18249 Mercedes Delgado
Christian Ketels
Michael E. Porter
Scott Stern

The Determinants of National Competitiveness
w18177 Daron Acemoglu
Camilo García-Jimeno
James A. Robinson

Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
w18130 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?
w18117 Paola Giuliano
Prachi Mishra
Antonio Spilimbergo

Democracy and Reforms: Evidence from a New Dataset
w18080 Edward Kutsoati
Randall Morck

Family Ties, Inheritance Rights, and Successful Poverty Alleviation: Evidence from Ghana
w18013 Franklin Allen
Elena Carletti
Robert Cull
Jun Qian
Lemma Senbet
Patricio Valenzuela

Resolving the African Financial Development Gap: Cross-Country Comparisons and a Within-Country Study of Kenya
w18006 Orley C. Ashenfelter
Comparing Real Wages
w17948 Russell Cooper
Guan Gong
Ping Yan

Costly Labor Adjustment: Effects of China's Employment Regulations
w17828 Franklin Allen
Jun "QJ" Qian
Chenying Zhang
Mengxin Zhao

China's Financial System: Opportunities and Challenges
w17788 Yin-Wong Cheung
Michael P. Dooley
Vladyslav Sushko

Investment and Growth in Rich and Poor Countries
w17764 Sebastian Edwards
Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long Term Analysis
2011
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
w17544 Aaron Weisbrod
John Whalley

The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
w17432 Fabrice Murtin
Romain Wacziarg

The Democratic Transition
w17373 Amil Petrin
Jagadeesh Sivadasan

Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs
w17336 C. Fritz Foley
William R. Kerr

Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
w17271 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Long-Term Barriers to the International Diffusion of Innovations
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