Stelios Michalopoulos

5.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
40 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Stelios Michalopoulos is a scholar working on Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Stelios Michalopoulos has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Demography, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Stelios Michalopoulos's work include Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (27 papers), Economic Growth and Development (9 papers) and Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (7 papers). Stelios Michalopoulos is often cited by papers focused on Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (27 papers), Economic Growth and Development (9 papers) and Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (7 papers). Stelios Michalopoulos collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Stelios Michalopoulos's co-authors include Elias Papaioannou, Ross Levine, Luc Laeven, Alberto Alesina, Oded Galor, Giovanni Prarolo, Alireza Naghavi, Quamrul H. Ashraf, Louis Putterman and Sandra Sequeira and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

Stelios Michalopoulos

39 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2013 2013 2012 2014 2016 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
    2013 587 citations Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou Econometrica profile →
  2. National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa *
    2013 323 citations Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →
  3. The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity
    2012 316 citations Stelios Michalopoulos profile →
  4. Financial innovation and endogenous growth
    2014 310 citations Luc Laeven, Ross Levine et al. profile →
  5. Ethnic Inequality
    2016 266 citations Alberto Alesina, Stelios Michalopoulos et al. Journal of Political Economy profile →
  6. The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
    2016 203 citations Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stelios Michalopoulos United States 18 1.2k 1.1k 1.0k 427 274 40 2.7k
Elias Papaioannou United Kingdom 24 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.2× 1.6k 1.5× 412 1.0× 497 1.8× 53 3.9k
Claudia R. Williamson United States 21 493 0.4× 800 0.7× 521 0.5× 271 0.6× 183 0.7× 74 1.8k
Léonard Wantchekon United States 20 1.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.9× 910 0.9× 320 0.7× 150 0.5× 57 3.6k
Suresh Naidu United States 23 294 0.2× 1.0k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 165 0.4× 175 0.6× 65 2.5k
Ralph Chami United States 28 334 0.3× 2.2k 2.0× 1.9k 1.9× 573 1.3× 475 1.7× 119 3.7k
Sergio Kurlat United States 6 875 0.7× 1.5k 1.4× 866 0.9× 370 0.9× 246 0.9× 9 2.6k
Peter J. Boettke United States 31 385 0.3× 1.5k 1.4× 2.1k 2.1× 146 0.3× 164 0.6× 309 3.7k
Toke Aidt United Kingdom 28 390 0.3× 1.5k 1.4× 2.0k 2.0× 519 1.2× 292 1.1× 103 3.6k
Kenneth L. Sokoloff United States 24 738 0.6× 876 0.8× 1.6k 1.6× 162 0.4× 153 0.6× 48 2.6k
Marta Reynal‐Querol Spain 23 1.1k 0.9× 2.3k 2.1× 974 1.0× 447 1.0× 103 0.4× 39 3.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Alesina, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Religion and educational mobility in Africa. Nature. 618(7963). 134–143. 15 indexed citations
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Alesina, Alberto, et al.. (2021). Intergenerational Mobility in Africa. Econometrica. 89(1). 1–35. 89 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, et al.. (2021). Forced Displacement and Human Capital: Evidence from Separated Siblings. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Alesina, Alberto, et al.. (2020). Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2020). Historical Legacies and African Development. Journal of Economic Literature. 58(1). 53–128. 80 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2017). The Long Economic and Political Shadow of History Volume I. A Global View. 5 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, & Giovanni Prarolo. (2017). Trade and Geography in the Spread of Islam. The Economic Journal. 128(616). 3210–3241. 45 indexed citations
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Alesina, Alberto, Stelios Michalopoulos, & Elias Papaioannou. (2016). Ethnic Inequality. Journal of Political Economy. 124(2). 428–488. 266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, & Giovanni Prarolo. (2016). Islam, inequality and pre-industrial comparative development. Journal of Development Economics. 120. 86–98. 34 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2014). On the Ethnic Origins of African Development Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization. National Bureau of Economic Research. 1 indexed citations
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Ashraf, Quamrul H. & Stelios Michalopoulos. (2014). Climatic Fluctuations and the Diffusion of Agriculture. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 97(3). 589–609. 30 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2014). On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Chiefs and Precolonial Political Centralization. Academy of Management Perspectives. 29(1). 32–71. 76 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2013). National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa *. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 129(1). 151–213. 323 indexed citations breakdown →
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2013). Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development. Econometrica. 81(1). 113–152. 587 indexed citations breakdown →
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Michalopoulos, Stelios & Elias Papaioannou. (2012). National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Galor, Oded & Stelios Michalopoulos. (2012). Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Galor, Oded & Stelios Michalopoulos. (2011). Evolution and the Growth Process: Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Galor, Oded & Stelios Michalopoulos. (2011). Evolution and the growth process: Natural selection of entrepreneurial traits. Journal of Economic Theory. 147(2). 759–780. 82 indexed citations
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Michalopoulos, Stelios, Ross Levine, & Luc Laeven. (2009). Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth. SSRN Electronic Journal. 41 indexed citations
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Galor, Oded & Stelios Michalopoulos. (2006). The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations

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