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Quantitative Economic History

11 items

The Deeper Roots of Human Capital Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia, 1900 – 2000

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers de Pleijt, Alexandra, Frankema, Ewout · 2025-03

Micro-data on historical educational attainment and migration trace the 20th-century schooling revolution as one of the deeper roots of Southeast Asia's postwar development leap.

Fighting for Resources: A Unified Growth Model of the Great Divergence

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Le Fur, Tanguy, Wasmer, Etienne · 2025-02

A tractable unified-growth model interprets the Great Divergence as small technological and demographic asymmetries amplified by conflict over resources.

Cultural Capital and the Productivity of Ideas: Evidence from Historical Texts

NEP-GRO Economics Discussion Papers Radoslaw Stefanski · 2026-07-23

LLMs read 23,000 books from the Western canon to score six cultural dimensions, testing how the cultural environment shaped the long-run productivity of ideas.

Colonial Persistence

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Fenske, James, Gupta, Bishnupriya, Mukhopadhyay, Anwesh · 2025-04

Reviews how colonial rule persists into the present through institutions, culture and path dependence, and surveys the applied-econometrics toolkit used to identify it.

Industry and Identity: The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Fouka, Vasiliki, Serlin, Theo · 2025-05

England and Wales during the Second Industrial Revolution show economic modernization reshaping group identity through migration rather than only eroding local culture.

Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Becker, Sascha O., Panin, Amma, Pfaff, Steven, Rubin, Jared · 2025-03

A survey chapter tracing religion's long-run role in economic development from historical origins to today's cross-country variation in religiosity.

Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson: The Identification of Historically Contingent Causal Effects

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam · 2025-05

Cantoni and Yuchtman review the historical identification strategies behind Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson's Nobel-winning work on institutions and development.

The Structural Transformation of Innovation

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Comin, Diego, Lashkari, Danial, Mestieri, Marti · 2025-05

Historical patent data back to the 1850s, combined with R&D and TFP series, trace innovation's structural shift from agriculture to manufacturing to services.

American Life Histories

NEP-DEM CEPR Discussion Papers Lagakos, David, Michalopoulos, Stelios, Voth, Hans-Joachim · 2025-01

Lagakos, Michalopoulos and Voth pair close reading with LLMs on 1,400 WPA-collected 1930s life narratives to extract systematic data on critical junctures in ordinary American lives.

The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students’ Lifetime Well-Being

NEP-DEM Working Papers David Card, Ciprian Domnisoru, Seth Sanders, Lowell Taylor, Victoria Udalova · 2026-06

Card and coauthors link 1940s rural-America census records to IRS and death records to trace female teachers' influence on their students' lifetime outcomes.

Discrimination After Hiring: Within-Firm Sorting, Slow Employer Learning, and the Cost to the Sorted Worker

NEP-LAB CEH Discussion Papers Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood, Martine Mariotti · 2026-08

From ANU's Centre for Economic History: linked personnel data separate hiring-stage discrimination from slower post-hire sorting and employer learning.

Causal Inference & Applied Microeconometrics

2 items

Taxes Today, Benefits Tomorrow

NEP-PBE CEPR Discussion Papers Le Barbanchon, Thomas · 2025-01

Extends Saez's bunching estimator to a dynamic setting that prices in the value of future benefits tied to today's earnings, testing it on unemployment insurance withdrawal.

Export Entry and the Gender Wage Gap: When Large Firms Drive Worker-Level Estimates

NEP-LAB Graz Economics Papers Riccarda Rosenball · 2026-07

Shows standard worker-level empirical designs for firm-level treatment effects are distorted once large firms dominate the estimates, using export entry and the gender wage gap as the case.

Institutional & Political Economy

4 items

Anti-Social Norms

NEP-EVO CEPR Discussion Papers Fergusson, Leopoldo, Guerra, José-Alberto, Robinson, James A. · 2024-09

Fergusson, Guerra and Robinson show a social norm against opportunism can both underpin and undermine the third-party sanctioning that sustains fair outcomes.

Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution

NEP-GRO CEPR Discussion Papers Besley, Tim, Bogart, Dan, Chapman, Jonathan, Palma, Nuno · 2025-05

Britain's Justices of the Peace system is used to show local legal capacity for enforcing property rights contributed to Industrial Revolution-era development.

Perceptions of Corruption and Preferences for Redistributive Policies: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Latin America

NEP-PBE IDB Publications (Working Papers) Busso, Matías, Messina, Julián, Quigua, Juliana · 2026-07

A survey experiment across eight Latin American countries finds corruption information reshapes perceived inequality and support for redistribution.

A Democratic Dividend in Trade? Evidence from a Flexible Empirical Implementation

NEP-INT CEPR Discussion Papers Desbordes, Rodolphe, Eberhardt, Markus, Larch, Mario · 2025-03

A country-pair difference-in-differences design finds democratic regime change raises bilateral trade flows, extending gravity estimation to a more flexible, heterogeneous form.

Sports Economics

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