Sara Lowes

774 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 282 citations indexed

About

Sara Lowes is a scholar working on Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Lowes has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 282 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Demography, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Sara Lowes's work include Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (13 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 papers). Sara Lowes is often cited by papers focused on Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (13 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (3 papers). Sara Lowes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Sara Lowes's co-authors include Nathan Nunn, Jonathan Weigel, James A. Robinson, Eduardo Montero, Johannes Haushofer, David M. Ndetei, Abednego Musau, Nancy Qian, Thomas R. Barnum and Lucy van Dorp and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

Sara Lowes

19 papers receiving 270 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence From the Kuba Kingdom

2017 149 citations Sara Lowes, Nathan Nunn et al. Econometrica profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Lowes United States	7	170	142	72	51	47	20	282
Vasiliki Fouka United States	11	139 0.8×	403 2.8×	27 0.4×	45 0.9×	25 0.5×	23	495
Jean‐Paul Carvalho United States	9	165 1.0×	223 1.6×	56 0.8×	54 1.1×	25 0.5×	24	302
Abhijit Ramalingam United States	10	80 0.5×	180 1.3×	218 3.0×	67 1.3×	16 0.3×	31	335
Colin Brock United Kingdom	11	62 0.4×	83 0.6×	70 1.0×	15 0.3×	17 0.4×	36	276
Joe Vecci Sweden	8	45 0.3×	92 0.6×	78 1.1×	43 0.8×	75 1.6×	27	243
Jill Sperandio United States	10	38 0.2×	56 0.4×	43 0.6×	15 0.3×	41 0.9×	23	238
Volha Charnysh United States	9	76 0.4×	261 1.8×	11 0.2×	21 0.4×	31 0.7×	13	348
Suzanne Bergeron United States	7	29 0.2×	141 1.0×	22 0.3×	33 0.6×	121 2.6×	24	295
Lynette Parker Australia	6	24 0.1×	187 1.3×	33 0.5×	10 0.2×	25 0.5×	9	340
Ruchira Ganguly‐Scrase Australia	8	35 0.2×	142 1.0×	11 0.2×	35 0.7×	43 0.9×	25	269

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Lowes

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Lowes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Lowes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Lowes 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 Sara Lowes. Sara Lowes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lowes, Sara, et al.. (2024). Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Lange, Christian E., Thomas R. Barnum, David J. McIver, et al.. (2024). Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change. Ecological Monographs. 95(1). e1641–e1641. 1 indexed citations

Lowes, Sara & Nathan Nunn. (2024). The slave trade and the origins of matrilineal kinship. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1897). 20230032–20230032. 3 indexed citations

Haushofer, Johannes, et al.. (2023). Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Lowes, Sara. (2023). Kinship Structure and the Family: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

Haushofer, Johannes, Sara Lowes, Abednego Musau, et al.. (2022). Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1(2). 225–269. 6 indexed citations

Haushofer, Johannes, Sara Lowes, Abednego Musau, et al.. (2022). Stress, Ethnicity, and Prosocial Behavior. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Lowes, Sara, et al.. (2022). Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism: Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

Lowes, Sara, et al.. (2022). Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara. (2021). Kinship structure, stress, and the gender gap in competition. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 192. 36–57. 11 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara & Eduardo Montero. (2021). Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 136(4). 2047–2091. 22 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara. (2020). Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics. SSRN Electronic Journal.

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Lowes, Sara & Eduardo Montero. (2020). Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara & Eduardo Montero. (2019). Traditional Medicine in Central Africa. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 109. 516–520. 2 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara. (2019). Kinship Structure & Women: Evidence from Economics. Daedalus. 149(1). 119–133. 12 indexed citations

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Dorp, Lucy van, Sara Lowes, Jonathan Weigel, et al.. (2018). Genetic legacy of state centralization in the Kuba Kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(2). 593–598. 5 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson, & Jonathan Weigel. (2017). The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence From the Kuba Kingdom. Econometrica. 85(4). 1065–1091. 149 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lowes, Sara & Nathan Nunn. (2017). Bride price and the well-being of women. Working Paper Series. 12 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson, & Jonathan Weigel. (2015). The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom. National Bureau of Economic Research. 1 indexed citations

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Lowes, Sara, Nathan Nunn, James A. Robinson, & Jonathan Weigel. (2015). Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT). American Economic Review. 105(5). 340–345. 37 indexed citations

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