Standout Papers
Citation Impact
Citing Papers
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
2013 StandoutScience
US Food Aid and Civil Conflict
2014 Standout
Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Influence
2011
Revitalize the world’s countryside
2017 StandoutNature
Beliefs, Doubts and Learning: Valuing Macroeconomic Risk
2007 StandoutNobel
The Effects of the International Security Environment on National Military Expenditures: A Multicountry Study
2012 StandoutNobel
Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets
2007 StandoutNobel
The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth
2005 StandoutNobel
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES? CIVILIAN CONTROL OVER THE MILITARY
2010 StandoutNobel
Determinants of constitutional change: Why do countries change their form of government?
2010
Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence
2016 Standout
Weak, Despotic, or Inclusive? How State Type Emerges from State versus Civil Society Competition
2022 StandoutNobel
How much income redistribution? An explanation based on vote-buying and corruption
2010
Institutions and growth in limited access societies
2010
Bureaucrats or Politicians? Part I: A Single Policy Task
2007
Heterogeneity in Intra-Monthly Consumption Patterns, Self-Control, and Savings at Retirement
2009
Segmentary Lineage Organization and Conflict in Sub‐Saharan Africa
2020 StandoutNobel
Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
2009 StandoutNobel
Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances?
2013 StandoutNobel
Education and Military Rivalry
2018 StandoutNobel
The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt’s Arab Spring
2017 StandoutNobel
THE MONOPOLY OF VIOLENCE: EVIDENCE FROM COLOMBIA
2013 StandoutNobel
Political entry, public policies, and the economy
2015
Legislative malapportionment and institutional persistence
2010
Political Economy in a Changing World
2015 StandoutNobel
The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution
2011 StandoutNobel
Workers of the world, unite! Franchise extensions and the threat of revolution in Europe, 1820–1938
2014
Elected versus Appointed Policy Makers: Evidence from City Treasurers
2013
Two Tier Reforms of Employment Protection: A Honeymoon Effect?
2007
State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach
2015 StandoutNobel
Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
2014
On the Origins of the State: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo
2019
Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile
2008 StandoutNobel
State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century
2016 StandoutNobel
The political agenda effect and state centralization
2020 StandoutNobel
The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
2015 StandoutNobel
Modelling stochastic mortality for dependent lives
2008
Investment, Idiosyncratic Risk, and Ownership
2012
State Capacity and Long‐Run Economic Performance
2014
Economics versus Politics: Pitfalls of Policy Advice
2013 StandoutNobel
Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*
2016 Standout
A Theory of Equality Before the Law
2020 StandoutNobel
The Need for Enemies
2014 StandoutNobel
Intellectuals and the rise of the modern economy
2015 StandoutScienceNobel
Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville*
2017 StandoutNobel
Warfare, Taxation, and Political Change: Evidence from the Italian Risorgimento
2011
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
2008 StandoutNobel
State Capacity Redux: Integrating Classical and Experimental Contributions to an Enduring Debate
2018
Coups d’état and defense spending: a counterfactual analysis
2014
War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust, and Conflict
2013
Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion, and Political Power
2013
Democracy Does Cause Growth
2018 StandoutNobel
Endogenous constitutions: Politics and politicians matter, economic outcomes don’t
2011
Oligarchic Versus Democratic Societies
2008 StandoutNobel
Is Africa Different? Historical Conflict and State Development
2019
De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence
2006 StandoutNobel
Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model
2014 StandoutNobel
Uncertainty averse preferences
2011
Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors
2008 Standout
(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support
2024 StandoutNobel
ENDOGENOUS PRESIDENTIALISM
2016 StandoutNobel
Political Economy of Public Policies: Insights from Distortions to Agricultural and Food Markets
2013
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule
2012 Standout
The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
2014
Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria: A Framework
2021 StandoutNobel
Legislative Malapportionment and Institutional Persistence
2010
Investment without democracy: Ruling-party institutionalization and credible commitment in autocracies
2011
Employment, Corporate Investment and Cash Flow Uncertainty
2011
Markets versus governments
2007 StandoutNobel
The Effects of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
2009 StandoutNobel
A Political Theory of Populism*
2012 StandoutNobel
Institutions, Factor Prices, and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States?
2010 StandoutNobel
Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments
2010 StandoutNobel
Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
2012 StandoutNobel
State Capacity and Military Conflict
2015
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
2006 StandoutNobel
Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule?
2009 StandoutNobel
On the Efficiency Costs of De-Tracking Secondary Schools
2006
The Politics of Urban Bias: Rural Threats and the Dual Dilemma of Political Survival
2015
Social Origins of Dictatorships: Elite Networks and Political Transitions in Haiti
2021 StandoutNobel
The Political Value of Land: Political Reform and Land Prices in Chile
2012 StandoutNobel
Good, Bad, and Ugly Colonial Activities: Do They Matter for Economic Development?
2011
Presidential AddressInstitutions and Culture
2008
Works of Davide Ticchi being referenced
On Wars and Political Development. The Role of International Conflicts in the Democratization of the West
2006
Persistence of Civil Wars
2010 StandoutNobel
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
2013
Risk-aversion and the investment-uncertainty relationship: a comment
2004
War and Endogenous Democracy
2008
Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
2011 StandoutNobel
A Theory of Military Dictatorships
2008 Nobel
A Theory of Military Dictatorships
2008 StandoutNobel
Endogenous Constitutions
2009
A Theory of Military Dictatorships
2009 StandoutNobel
Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth
2021
Risk aversion, intertemporal substitution, and the aggregate investment–uncertainty relationship
2006
Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
2006 StandoutNobel