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A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 1 2 8 30 4,788
A Model of Child Labor 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1,447
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 180 0 1 7 677
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 99 0 0 1 245
A Political Economy Theory of the Soft Budget Constraint 0 0 0 120 0 2 3 716
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 0 26 2 3 15 2,558
A Theory of Political Transitions 0 0 2 571 2 3 16 1,606
Africa's Latent Assets 0 0 0 34 0 0 2 54
African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism 0 0 3 74 0 0 10 100
An African Success Story: Botswana 1 3 36 2,852 8 13 108 10,521
Anti-social norms 0 1 13 31 11 12 47 70
Are Endowments Fate? 1 1 3 299 1 1 5 680
Bargaining Unit, Union, Industry, and Locational Correlates of Union Support in Certification and Decertification 0 0 0 63 0 0 0 649
Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success 0 0 1 160 0 0 6 393
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 1 1 5 370 14 16 44 1,538
Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World 0 1 2 101 10 12 20 299
Chiefs: Elite Control of Civil Society and Economic Development in Sierra Leone 0 0 0 215 1 1 8 296
Colombia: ¿Otros cien anos de Soledad? 1 1 8 53 2 3 26 109
Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa 1 5 47 2,472 9 26 202 10,165
Colonialism and development in Africa 0 0 0 0 0 3 19 517
Constitutions and Order: A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States 0 2 6 13 1 4 29 44
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework 0 2 12 101 1 6 50 283
Democracy Does Cause Growth 0 0 3 1,175 3 7 30 3,656
Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality 1 2 14 637 3 11 59 1,726
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 117 0 0 5 540
Democratization or Repression? 0 0 0 18 0 0 6 664
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 0 177 0 0 4 807
Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective 0 0 0 460 0 0 7 2,093
Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia 0 1 3 279 0 3 20 1,293
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 0 274 2 3 10 824
Endogenous Presidentialism 0 0 1 60 0 1 2 184
Fear and Dreams: Understanding the Non-Institutional sources of Leader Strategy 0 0 4 4 8 11 41 41
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia 0 0 2 280 1 3 13 496
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 2 537 0 2 19 1,483
Governance and Development 0 0 1 158 1 1 11 449
He Who Counts Elects: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election 0 0 1 80 0 4 8 230
Hither Thou Shalt Come, But No Further: Reply to "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Comment" 0 0 9 191 2 9 100 632
How Institutions Change Over Time 0 0 2 281 0 1 13 1,867
INSTITUTIONS AS THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF LONG-RUN GROWTH 2 17 128 1,116 14 67 494 3,032
Income and Democracy 0 0 2 382 0 3 15 1,370
Income and Democracy 0 0 6 679 0 2 27 1,720
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 0 1 88 1 1 4 232
Inefficient Redistribution 0 0 0 356 0 1 6 1,097
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 1 637 0 0 8 2,155
Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms: Volatility, Crises and Growth 0 0 3 330 0 1 13 1,306
Institutional Comparative Statics 0 0 1 109 0 0 2 177
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 0 4 23 799 1 9 83 2,067
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 1 5 34 2,220 4 20 176 6,193
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 1 3 8 696 4 8 49 1,414
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 2 558 0 1 15 770
Institutions, Human Capital and Development 0 0 3 59 0 1 13 200
Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 0 45 0 2 6 76
Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 0 0 1 72 0 0 1 128
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 5 360 2 2 17 1,142
Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 2 279 0 2 27 1,702
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 0 33 0 0 1 170
Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 1 241 0 0 5 938
Land and Power 0 0 0 210 1 1 4 1,034
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 2 204 0 0 8 820
Long-Term Consequences of Population Growth: Technological Change, Natural Resources, and the Environment 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 3,234
Missing Discussions: Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition 0 0 3 14 1 3 6 31
Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 0 40 0 0 1 224
Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions 0 0 2 83 0 1 9 112
Online Appendix: Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 1 2 49 0 1 4 136
Paths to the Periphery 2 4 72 72 6 11 37 37
Paths towards the Periphery 2 5 105 105 3 10 89 89
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 0 0 204 1 3 13 730
Persistence of Power, Elites and Institutions 0 0 3 601 2 3 32 1,539
Politcal Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 4 440 0 0 7 891
Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa 0 0 1 127 1 1 5 185
Political Conflict and Power-Sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 80 0 0 1 286
Political Conflict and Power-sharing in the Origins of Modern Colombia 0 0 0 81 0 0 2 286
Political Foundations of the Resource Curse 0 0 5 682 0 1 16 1,698
Political incentives of the resource booms 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 53
Property Rights and the Political Organization of Agriculture 0 0 2 512 0 2 11 2,028
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 1 2 171 1 2 10 483
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis 0 0 0 292 0 0 4 740
Reinventing the Wheel: The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa 0 0 1 58 0 3 9 110
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 2 3 44 2,055 6 12 196 7,010
Rotten Parents 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 899
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 4 138 0 2 13 634
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century 0 0 0 249 0 0 9 404
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 2 39 0 1 16 202
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 0 315 1 1 9 659
Tax Aversion and the Social Contract in Africa 0 0 0 35 0 1 2 29
The Breakdown of the English Society of Orders: The Role of the Industrial Revolution 35 37 37 37 9 17 17 17
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 2 3 24 1,949 6 10 94 6,471
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 2 134 1 3 13 1,195
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 2 2 2 401 5 8 27 2,481
The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures 0 1 1 41 1 3 5 40
The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States 0 0 9 196 0 4 24 380
The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom 0 0 0 142 0 1 8 231
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 1 1 1 53 1 1 4 97
The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy 0 0 0 80 0 0 1 149
The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries 0 0 1 132 0 1 5 203
The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia 0 0 1 172 2 2 19 511
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 73 1 1 5 253
The Need for Enemies 2 3 16 496 6 16 110 1,669
The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives 0 0 6 202 2 7 19 511
The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa 0 2 25 25 1 5 14 14
The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization 0 0 0 124 0 3 8 305
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 0 3 1,095 1 3 18 4,402
The Political Economy of Inequality 0 0 7 467 0 1 18 1,932
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 53 0 0 2 63
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 1 46 0 0 3 91
The Political Economy of Public Income Volatility: With an Application to the Resource Curse 0 0 0 74 0 1 2 150
The Political Value of Land: Democratization and Land Prices in Chile 0 0 3 85 0 1 6 236
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 54 0 0 3 258
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 2 357 0 1 18 572
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutioanl Change and Economic Growth 0 0 1 357 1 3 10 1,276
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 1 5 425 0 1 21 2,114
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth 0 2 14 1,075 7 19 95 5,352
The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in Britain 0 0 0 11 4 4 6 34
The Weak State Trap 0 3 9 202 1 6 22 520
The consequences of radical reform: The French revolution 0 0 0 0 1 2 20 330
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan 0 1 2 91 1 6 17 262
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 1 1 1 36 1 3 5 144
What Model for the South African Labour Market? Lessons from the OECD and LDC's 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,239
What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution? 1 2 5 160 2 6 24 731
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 1 502 0 4 13 1,488
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 182
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's "La Violencia" 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 337
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia's La Violencia 0 0 0 90 0 1 2 266
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia�s La Violencia 0 0 0 56 0 2 6 314
When is a State Predatory? 0 1 3 150 2 3 15 2,598
Where Does Inequality Come From?: Ideas and Implications for Latin America 1 1 2 145 1 2 7 1,135
White Elephants 0 0 3 303 0 0 7 1,084
Why Did West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Ineqiality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 518
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 62 0 0 6 178
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 38 0 0 1 180
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 44 0 1 3 158
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 0 115 0 0 3 435
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 0 1 78 0 1 5 167
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Extensions and Robustness 0 0 0 85 0 0 4 199
Why did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 424 2 3 21 1,559
Total Working Papers 61 124 843 39,541 195 510 3,250 150,243
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A Theory of Political Transitions 0 3 7 1,717 2 5 35 6,597
A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint 0 0 1 69 0 1 7 908
Alfred Marshall Lecture: Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule 0 0 0 65 2 2 9 358
Are factor endowments fate?* 0 0 6 46 0 4 16 149
Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone 1 3 6 139 2 7 25 669
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence 1 1 4 175 1 3 16 839
Democratization or repression? 0 0 3 178 0 3 17 514
Disease and Development in Historical Perspective 1 1 2 148 1 2 9 503
Dynamic Contractual Enforcement: A Model of Strikes 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 116
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM 0 0 0 4 1 2 6 58
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice 0 0 0 294 2 4 13 987
Equity, Institutions and the Development Process 0 0 1 79 1 3 6 219
Finding Eldorado: Slavery and long-run development in Colombia 0 2 10 140 3 8 48 639
From Education to Democracy? 0 0 3 345 1 3 23 1,092
He Who Counts Elects: Economic Elites, Political Elites, and Electoral Fraud 0 1 5 99 1 5 29 289
Income and Democracy 0 0 9 756 0 4 37 2,402
Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth 1 2 21 759 15 27 164 2,944
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development * 0 2 11 232 1 8 42 853
Interlinking and Collusion 0 0 0 5 0 4 7 55
Is Child Labor Inefficient? 0 1 4 878 2 7 29 3,480
Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics 0 0 0 55 0 1 5 285
La miseria en Colombia 1 1 25 181 2 4 94 1,517
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile 0 0 1 349 0 2 12 1,143
Los orígenes coloniales del desarrollo comparativo: una investigación empírica 0 1 2 170 0 2 18 884
Measuring institutions in the Trobriand Islands: a comment on Voigt's paper 0 0 3 31 0 0 4 67
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions 1 1 6 465 4 10 30 1,775
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development 0 0 7 490 2 4 34 1,487
Political centralization in pre-colonial Africa 0 0 4 17 2 6 27 149
Political foundations of the resource curse 0 0 9 452 3 10 41 1,343
Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment 0 0 1 53 0 0 3 347
Politician-Proof Policy? 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 135
Politique industrielle et développement: analyse en termes d'économie politique 0 0 0 34 0 3 4 103
Property rights and the political organization of agriculture 0 0 2 112 1 1 7 375
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Civilian Control Over the Military 0 0 2 36 0 0 5 214
Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis 0 0 3 158 0 1 20 783
Rent appropriation and sustained growth 0 0 0 38 2 2 2 231
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution 4 5 33 2,082 9 19 157 6,619
Rotten parents 0 0 0 77 0 0 1 257
SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS 0 1 1 31 0 1 3 146
Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia 0 0 9 110 1 5 40 717
Social identity, inequality and conflict 0 0 0 238 1 1 8 2,155
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century 0 0 2 101 1 3 15 406
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach 0 0 5 206 2 7 35 796
State Formation and Governance in Botswana 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 337
States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey I. Herbst: A Review Essay 0 0 2 38 0 1 8 1,598
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA 2 2 7 103 4 5 46 582
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 21 25 118 5,040 63 105 801 18,732
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply 0 1 15 278 2 5 41 1,230
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution 0 0 3 260 2 4 27 1,597
The Need for Enemies 0 0 7 56 1 3 55 236
The Political Economy of Clientelism 0 0 4 45 2 7 30 241
The Political Economy of the Kuznets Curve 0 3 15 284 1 6 64 948
The Real Swing Voter's Curse 0 0 0 48 0 1 5 340
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism 0 0 5 412 3 7 31 1,526
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth 0 0 24 1,564 3 21 106 6,014
The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development 0 0 105 593 6 12 452 2,297
The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse 0 0 2 34 0 3 9 189
Theories of “bad policy” 0 0 3 45 0 1 8 130
Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) 0 0 1 30 0 2 15 250
When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence 0 0 6 124 8 14 48 727
When is Democracy an Equilibrium? Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 100
White elephants 2 6 13 330 6 14 39 1,033
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective 0 1 9 560 2 6 36 2,042
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? 0 1 2 57 1 4 13 328
Total Journal Articles 35 64 549 21,561 169 406 2,946 86,082


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Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 1 3 54 624
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 0 9 35 128 1,014
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 38 182 1,638


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Comment on "Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth" 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 47
Governance and Development 3 3 13 143 11 21 70 555
Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective 0 2 8 100 2 14 113 2,070
Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth 6 22 199 2,147 45 119 840 7,906
Institutions, Volatility, and Crises 0 0 2 83 0 1 8 212
Long-term consequences of population growth: Technological change, natural resources, and the environment 0 0 0 289 0 0 7 1,416
The Myth of the Frontier 0 0 0 19 1 2 8 105
Total Chapters 9 27 222 2,791 59 158 1,047 12,311


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