Alwyn Young

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alwyn Young is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Alwyn Young has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 3 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Recurrent topics in Alwyn Young's work include Economic Growth and Productivity (6 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 papers). Alwyn Young is often cited by papers focused on Economic Growth and Productivity (6 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 papers). Alwyn Young collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Alwyn Young's co-authors include Ronny Razin and Gilat Levy and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Journal of Political Economy.

In The Last Decade

Alwyn Young

18 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results*

2018 311 citations Alwyn Young The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
Inequality, the Urban-Rural Gap, and Migration*

2013 287 citations Alwyn Young The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

Peers

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Claudio E. Montenegro United States

Kalpana Kochhar United States

Måns Söderbom Sweden

Bernard Gauthier Canada

Martín Rama United States

David Lagakos United States

Tony Addison United States

Christian Morrisson France

C. Simon Fan Hong Kong

Machiko Nissanke United Kingdom

Claudio E. Montenegro United States

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690 ×1.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Alwyn Young

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alwyn Young

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alwyn Young

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alwyn Young. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alwyn Young based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alwyn Young. Alwyn Young is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Young, Alwyn. (2023). Asymptotically robust permutation-based randomization confidence intervals for parametric OLS regression. European Economic Review. 163. 104644–104644. 1 indexed citations

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Levy, Gilat, Ronny Razin, & Alwyn Young. (2022). Misspecified Politics and the Recurrence of Populism. American Economic Review. 112(3). 928–962. 34 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (2022). Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application. European Economic Review. 147. 104112–104112. 65 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (2020). RANDCMD: Stata module to compute randomization inference p-values. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 5 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (2018). Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 134(2). 557–598. 311 indexed citations breakdown →

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Young, Alwyn. (2013). Inequality, the Urban-Rural Gap, and Migration*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 128(4). 1727–1785. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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Young, Alwyn. (2012). The African Growth Miracle. Journal of Political Economy. 120(4). 696–739. 160 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (2011). The Gini coefficient for a mixture of Ln-Normal populations. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 2 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (2007). In sorrow to bring forth children: fertility amidst the plague of HIV. Journal of Economic Growth. 12(4). 283–327. 46 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (2005). The Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 120(2). 423–466. 46 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1999). Transport, processing and information: value added and the circuitous movement of goods. London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science). 13 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1998). Growth without Scale Effects. Journal of Political Economy. 106(1). 41–63. 334 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1997). The Razor's Edge: Distortions, Incremental Reform and the Theory of the Second Best in the People's Republic of China. Scholarship@Western (Western University). 81. 5 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1994). Accumulation, exports, and growth in the high performing Asian economies. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy. 40. 237–250. 30 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1993). Invention and Bounded Learning by Doing. Journal of Political Economy. 101(3). 443–472. 147 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1992). A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore. NBER Macroeconomics Annual. 7. 13–13. 50 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1992). A Tale of Two Cities: Factor Accumulation and Technical Change in Hong Kong and Singapore. NBER Macroeconomics Annual. 7. 13–54. 374 indexed citations

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Young, Alwyn. (1989). Hong Kong and the art of landing on one's feet : a case study of a structurally flexible economy. UMI Dissertation Information Service eBooks. 4 indexed citations

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