Standout Papers
Citation Impact
Citing Papers
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
2013 StandoutScience
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities
2007 Standout
Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
2012 Standout
Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?
2010
Revitalize the world’s countryside
2017 StandoutNature
Sustainable polymers from renewable resources
2016 StandoutNature
Watersheds in Child Mortality: The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880–1920
2018 StandoutNobel
The burden and costs of chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries
2007 Standout
Measuring Space: A Minimum-Distance Database and Applications to International Studies
2001
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply
2012 StandoutNobel
Unbundling Institutions
2005 StandoutNobel
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
2005 StandoutNobel
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
2005 StandoutNobel
The causes of corruption: a cross-national study
2000 Standout
Climatic Change and Rural-Urban Migration: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
2014
The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States
2016 StandoutNobel
Are women really the “fairer” sex? Corruption and women in government
2001
The Wealth of Cities: Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States
2009
Urban Concentration: The Role of Increasing Returns and Transport Costs
1994 StandoutNobel
The Regulation of Labor
2004 Standout
The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt’s Arab Spring
2017 StandoutNobel
Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India*
2013 StandoutNobel
Toward a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont's Lead
2009
Natural resources, rent seeking and welfare
2002
Climate and Scale in Economic Growth
2001
Political Economy in a Changing World
2015 StandoutNobel
Corruption in Economic Development: Beneficial Grease, Minor Annoyance, or Major Obstacle?
1999
Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market
2005 Standout
The Role of Wages and Auditing during a Crackdown on Corruption in the City of Buenos Aires
2003
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution
2011 StandoutNobel
Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a Cross Section of Firms
2003
Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
2018 Standout
International Trade and Institutional Change
2012
On the Number and Size of Nations
1997 Standout
The Value of Regulatory Discretion: Estimates From Environmental Inspections in India
2018 StandoutNobel
A WORLD OF CITIES: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF URBANIZATION IN POORER COUNTRIES
2014
Corruption Dynamics: The Golden Goose Effect
2013
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
2008 StandoutNobel
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
2002 StandoutNobel
What's new about the new economic geography?
1998 StandoutNobel
Power and Persistence: The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy
2017 StandoutNobel
The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment
2010
Space: The Final Frontier
1998 StandoutNobel
Endogenous Political Institutions
2004 StandoutNobel
Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands
2016 Standout
Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation
1999
The New Growth Evidence
1999
Politically Connected Firms
2006 Standout
The Economics of Labor Coercion
2011 StandoutNobel
Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville*
2017 StandoutNobel
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India
2004 StandoutNobel
Review of Easterly’s The Elusive Quest for Growth
2002
What have we learned from a decade of empirical research on growth? It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models
2001
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
2008 StandoutNobel
Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective
2000 StandoutNobel
Democracy Does Cause Growth
2018 StandoutNobel
Political Limits to Globalization
2010 StandoutNobel
Power, growth, and the voracity effect
1996
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence
2006 StandoutNobel
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
2001 StandoutNobel
Democracy and growth
1996
Does oil corrupt? Evidence from a natural experiment in West Africa
2009
Local Corruption and Global Capital Flows
2000
Institutions and the Resource Curse
2006 Standout
History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India
2005 StandoutNobel
WORKERS, WARRIORS, AND CRIMINALS: SOCIAL CONFLICT IN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM
2011
ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRUPTION: POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS MATTER
2005
Education, corruption, and the distribution of income
2009
Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
2010 StandoutNobel
Political Competition Between Countries and Economic Growth
2006
A Theory of Civil Conflict and Democracy in Rentier States*
2006
Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?
2011 Standout
The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities
2008 StandoutScience
From Education to Democracy?
2005 StandoutNobel
Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth
2007 StandoutNobel
The Politics of Urban Bias: Rural Threats and the Dual Dilemma of Political Survival
2015
Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development
2000 StandoutNobel
Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program
2010 Standout
Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs
2012 StandoutNobel
The Origins of Scaling in Cities
2013 StandoutScience
Tangible Information and Citizen Empowerment: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
2017 StandoutNobel
Natural resources, democracy and corruption
2009
Works of Alberto Ades being referenced
The Causes and Consequences of Corruption: A Review of Recent Empirical Contributions
1996
National Champions and Corruption: Some Unpleasant Interventionist Arithmetic
1997
National Champions and Corruption: Some Unpleasant Interventionist Arithmetic
1997
Trade and Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants
1995 Standout
Rents, Competition, and Corruption
1999 Standout
Thy Neighbor's Curse: Regional Instability and Economic Growth
1997
Evidence on Growth, Increasing Returns, and the Extent of the Market
1999
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITH ENDOGENOUS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
1995