Research Papers

RESEARCH PAPERS

I. WORKING PAPERS

The Diffusion of Development
(with Enrico Spolaore) – March 2008

- View the coverage in SmartMoney Russia (05-02-2006, in Russian).

- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Working Paper #12153 / CEPR Working Paper #5630

A Monte Carlo Study of Growth Regressions
(with William R. Hauk, Jr.) – November 2006
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Technical Working Paper #T0296

Structural Convergence
May 2001
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / Additional empirical results

Human Capital and Democracy
January 2001
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract

II. JOURNAL ARTICLES

Trade Liberalization and Growth: New Evidence
(with Karen Horn Welch) – forthcoming, World Bank Economic Review, 2008
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / Liberalization Data / NBER Working Paper #10152

Death and Development
(with Peter Lorentzen and John McMillan) – Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 13, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 81-124.

- View the coverage in La Vanguardia (10-27-2005, in Spanish).
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Working Paper #11620 / CEPR Working Paper #5246

Small States, Big Pork
(with William R. Hauk, Jr.) - Quarterly Journal of Political Science, vol. 2, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 95-106.

- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract (posted with permission from Now Publishers)

Borders and Growth
(with Enrico Spolaore) - Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 10, no. 4, December 2005, pp. 331-386.
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Working Paper #9223 / CEPR Working Paper #5202

Do Democratic Transitions Produce Bad Economic Outcomes?

(with Dani Rodrik) - American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2005, pp. 50-55.

- View the coverage in the International Herald Tribune (1-7-2005).

- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract (posted with permission from the American Economic Association)

Trade Liberalization and Intersectoral Labor Movements
(with Jessica Wallack) - Journal of International Economics, vol. 64, no. 2, December 2004, pp. 411-439.
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / Companion Paper / October 2001 Version (posted with permission from Elsevier Science)

Fractionalization
(with Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly and Sergio Kurlat) - Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 8, no. 2, June 2003, pp. 155-194. (lead article)
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / Fractionalization Data / NBER Working Paper #9411M(posted with permission from Kluwer)

Stages of Diversification
(with Jean Imbs) - American Economic Review, vol. 93, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 63-86.
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / Additional empirical results / September 2000 versionM(posted with permission from the American Economic Association)

Measuring the Dynamic Gains From Trade
World Bank Economic Review, vol. 15. no. 3, October 2001, pp. 393-429.
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract

How Democracy Affects Growth
(with José Tavares) - European Economic Review, vol. 45, no. 8, August 2001, pp. 1341-1379. (lead article)
- View the coverage in the New York Times (4-13-2000).
- Paper (.pdf) / AbstractM(posted with permission from Elsevier Science)

Economic Integration and Political Disintegration
(with Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore) - American Economic Review, vol. 90, no. 5. December 2000, pp. 1276-1296.
- Reprinted in Pomfret, Richard (ed.), The Economics of Regional Trading Arrangements, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, vol. 161, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003 (Chapter 23, pp. 471-491).
- View the coverage in the Financial Times (7-1-1997), the Financial Times (12-22-1997), The Economist, (3-1-1998), Le Monde (12-8-1998), and Business Week (03-19-2001).
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Working Paper #6163M(posted with permission from the American Economic Association)

Is Europe Going Too Far?
(with Alberto Alesina) - Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy (supplement to the Journal of Monetary Economics), vol. 51, no. 1, December 1999, pp.1-42. (lead article)
- View the coverage on CNN-fn (12-8-1998).
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Working Paper #6883M(posted with permission from Elsevier Science)

Openness, Country Size and Government
(with Alberto Alesina) - Journal of Public Economics, vol. 69, no. 3, September 1998, pp.305-321. (lead article)
- View the coverage in The Economist (1-3-1998).
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract / NBER Working Paper #6024M(posted with permission from Elsevier Science)

III. BOOK CHAPTERS AND BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Acemoglu and Robinson's "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy"

Science, vol. 313, no. 5793, pp. 1576-1577 (15 September 2006).

- Paper

Trade, Growth and the Size of Countries
(with Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore) - in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 1, Part 2, Chapter 23, pp. 1499-1542, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2005.
- Paper (.pdf) / Abstract

Review of Easterly's “The Elusive Quest for Growth”
Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 40, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 907-918.
- Paper (.pdf) / Paper in Spanish/ M(posted with permission from the American Economic Association)

The Economics of Civic Trust
(with Alberto Alesina) - Chapter 7 in Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam (eds), Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?, Princeton University Press, June 2000.

- Paper (.pdf)

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IV. COAUTHOR WEBPAGES