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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 1,449
A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 4 9 30 4,797
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 0 1 4 717
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 99 1 5 6 250
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 5 5 12 682
A Theory of Political Transitions 1 1 2 572 6 11 20 1,617
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 2 11 22 2,569
Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa 1 1 1 1 7 7 7 7
Africa's Latent Assets 0 0 0 34 3 5 7 59
An African Success Story: Botswana 5 14 46 2,866 27 65 137 10,586
Anti-social norms 0 0 5 31 1 12 38 82
Are Endowments Fate? 0 1 3 300 2 7 11 687
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 1 1 1 650
Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success 0 0 1 160 11 14 18 407
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 1 6 371 3 26 58 1,564
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 0 2 101 0 8 28 307
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 0 0 215 3 5 11 301
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 0 1 2 54 1 4 8 113
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 2 8 36 2,480 23 56 192 10,221
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 9 16 27 533
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 1 1 5 14 2 4 27 48
Councils and Indirect Rule in British Africa 1 4 6 78 4 10 14 110
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 0 0 8 101 3 15 46 298
Democracy Does Cause Growth 0 2 3 1,177 8 33 49 3,689
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 0 3 12 640 20 47 82 1,773
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 1 2 6 542
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 2 5 9 669
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 1 1 178 3 6 9 813
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 0 460 8 18 21 2,111
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 1 3 280 3 11 25 1,304
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 1 1 1 275 5 8 15 832
Endogenous Presidentialism 0 0 1 60 3 5 7 189
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy 0 0 1 4 1 10 41 51
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 1 280 1 4 10 500
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 0 537 7 16 30 1,499
Governance and Development 0 0 0 158 8 16 23 465
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 1 80 3 5 13 235
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 1 1 2 192 8 17 52 649
How Institutions Change Over Time 0 1 2 282 7 11 17 1,878
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 10 30 95 1,146 62 155 458 3,187
Income and Democracy 1 2 6 681 14 26 38 1,746
Income and Democracy 0 0 0 382 3 9 19 1,379
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 0 88 4 7 10 239
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 4 9 12 1,106
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 2 330 1 4 10 1,310
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 0 637 4 15 20 2,170
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 0 109 3 5 5 182
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 1 3 16 802 8 39 92 2,106
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 4 10 22 2,230 34 88 168 6,281
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 6 696 10 16 46 1,430
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 3 59 3 8 17 208
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 0 558 3 12 20 782
Interview with 2024 Economics Laureate James Robinson 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 45 1 4 8 80
Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 72 2 4 5 132
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 0 279 3 10 24 1,712
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 4 360 5 10 23 1,152
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 33 0 2 3 172
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 241 2 3 7 941
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 0 2 6 1,036
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence 0 0 0 9 1 1 4 62
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 1 204 3 6 11 826
Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the Environment 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 3,235
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition 0 1 3 15 3 5 10 36
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 1 4 4 228
Nobel Prize Conversations podcast 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 2 83 0 1 7 113
Online Appendix: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 2 49 2 4 8 140
Paths to the Periphery 0 0 72 72 3 7 44 44
Paths towards the Periphery 0 3 105 108 2 15 96 104
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 0 0 204 7 10 21 740
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 2 3 603 7 14 35 1,553
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 1 3 441 1 6 11 897
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 0 127 2 4 6 189
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 2 3 4 289
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 81 1 2 2 288
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 1 2 683 3 6 17 1,704
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 55
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 512 3 6 13 2,034
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 2 171 2 6 13 489
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 1 1 1 293 2 4 6 744
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 1 58 20 25 32 135
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 2 28 2,057 32 59 150 7,069
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 901
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 2 138 5 6 15 640
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 0 0 0 249 5 6 12 410
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 2 39 4 8 20 210
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 0 315 2 6 12 665
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa 0 0 0 35 1 3 5 32
The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution 2 4 41 41 6 11 28 28
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 1 5 15 1,954 11 33 73 6,504
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 1 3 5 404 5 20 43 2,501
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 0 134 5 8 14 1,203
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 0 0 1 41 1 4 8 44
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 1 4 8 200 8 21 37 401
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 2 2 144 3 7 10 238
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 1 2 3 151
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 1 53 3 4 6 101
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 132 5 7 9 210
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 1 172 3 5 18 516
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 0 4 7 257
The Need for Enemies 0 4 15 500 4 27 104 1,696
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 0 2 6 204 2 6 21 517
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 2 3 28 28 6 12 26 26
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 1 1 125 4 7 15 312
The Political Economy of Clientelism 1 4 5 1,099 3 10 22 4,412
The Political Economy of Inequality 0 0 2 467 2 8 14 1,940
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 53 2 6 7 69
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 1 46 0 2 4 93
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 74 4 8 9 158
The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile 0 0 1 85 0 1 4 237
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 1 5 6 263
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 2 3 359 10 22 30 594
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 0 357 2 5 13 1,281
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 2 4 11 1,079 18 40 92 5,392
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 0 2 425 28 33 46 2,147
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 0 0 0 11 1 1 7 35
The Weak State Trap 0 2 7 204 4 8 21 528
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 2 5 17 335
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan 0 0 2 91 2 7 22 269
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 1 36 2 4 9 148
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1,240
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 0 2 6 162 6 17 34 748
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 1 502 4 11 20 1,499
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 49 4 7 7 189
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia" 0 0 0 75 3 3 3 340
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 90 3 5 7 271
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia�s La Violencia 0 0 0 56 1 2 7 316
When is a State Predatory? 0 1 3 151 8 10 21 2,608
Where Does Inequality Come From?: Ideas and Implications for Latin America 0 0 1 145 3 5 11 1,140
White Elephants 0 0 1 303 2 7 12 1,091
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 3 13 21 531
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 0 3 7 181
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 115 2 3 6 438
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 44 1 3 6 161
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 38 1 3 4 183
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 78 2 5 8 172
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 0 1 5 200
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 2 2 426 11 17 29 1,576
Total Working Papers 40 143 709 39,693 693 1,623 3,652 151,927
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A Theory of Political Transitions 1 3 9 1,720 5 22 44 6,619
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 1 69 6 7 14 915
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 0 65 1 12 18 370
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 1 6 47 0 2 17 151
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 2 3 8 142 5 13 31 682
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 1 1 3 176 3 9 21 848
Democratization or repression? 0 1 4 179 2 9 22 523
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 0 0 2 148 3 5 12 508
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 1 3 4 119
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 2 3 8 61
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 1 1 1 295 3 9 17 996
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 0 1 79 1 2 7 221
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 0 1 8 141 4 12 43 651
From Education to Democracy? 1 1 2 346 4 14 25 1,106
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 0 0 3 99 1 6 29 295
Income and Democracy 1 2 4 758 10 25 43 2,427
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 1 3 14 762 16 51 144 2,995
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 0 1 9 233 6 12 44 865
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 2 3 8 58
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 0 4 7 882 51 70 92 3,550
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 1 1 5 286
La miseria en Colombia 0 0 1 181 3 4 11 1,521
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 2 2 351 2 5 13 1,148
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 0 0 1 170 0 1 10 885
Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt's paper 0 0 2 31 2 5 8 72
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions 1 4 7 469 14 33 57 1,808
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 1 1 5 491 8 15 34 1,502
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 0 17 0 2 17 151
Political foundations of the resource curse 3 8 14 460 14 24 53 1,367
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 0 0 1 53 2 2 4 349
Politician-Proof Policy? 0 0 0 18 2 2 2 137
Politique industrielle et développement: analyse en termes d'économie politique 0 0 0 34 0 0 3 103
Property rights and the political organization of agriculture 0 1 3 113 1 5 12 380
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 1 3 37 1 6 11 220
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 1 1 159 7 14 24 797
Rent appropriation and sustained growth 0 0 0 38 1 2 4 233
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 0 1 23 2,083 28 66 162 6,685
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 0 0 0 257
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 1 2 32 1 3 5 149
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 3 110 5 12 35 729
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 1 3 10 2,158
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 0 0 0 101 6 13 20 419
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 1 2 5 208 9 30 55 826
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 339
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 2 2 2 40 7 13 16 1,611
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 0 0 6 103 10 22 57 604
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 5 13 75 5,053 91 235 609 18,967
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 0 6 11 284 6 16 32 1,246
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 1 260 0 4 21 1,601
The Need for Enemies 0 0 0 56 2 2 11 238
The Political Economy of Clientelism 1 2 5 47 6 16 43 257
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 2 5 20 289 10 24 83 972
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 48 4 6 8 346
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 4 412 6 12 36 1,538
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 1 3 20 1,567 32 60 140 6,074
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 4 13 52 606 16 43 292 2,340
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse 0 0 1 34 0 2 7 191
Theories of “bad policy” 0 1 4 46 1 6 13 136
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 1 30 1 5 17 255
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 3 5 127 5 19 52 746
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 101
White elephants 2 4 13 334 6 24 52 1,057
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 2 8 562 13 51 73 2,093
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 2 57 0 2 15 330
Total Journal Articles 31 98 385 21,659 451 1,102 2,781 87,184

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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 39 105 197 1,119
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 7 17 40 641
Total Books 0 0 0 0 46 122 237 1,760

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Comment on "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth" 0 0 0 10 1 3 4 50
Governance and Development 2 3 12 146 11 21 67 576
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 1 7 101 9 16 88 2,086
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 20 45 152 2,192 113 279 752 8,185
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 1 1 2 84 1 4 9 216
Long-term consequences of population growth: Technological change, natural resources, and the environment 0 0 0 289 2 3 7 1,419
The Myth of the Frontier 0 1 1 20 2 3 8 108
Total Chapters 23 51 174 2,842 139 329 935 12,640

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