William Easterly

43.6k citations
176 papers · 23.8k indexed · 14 hit papers · h-index 59

William Easterly

166 papers receiving 20.3k citations

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William Easterly
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  • Development 4.6k
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4.9k
  • Economics and Econometrics 12.2k
  • Demography 4.4k
  • Safety Research 2.6k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside William Easterly, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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DESIGN AND REFORM OF INSTITUTIONS IN LDCS AND TRANSITION ECONOMIES1 Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?
20168
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Walking up the Down Escalator
20129
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The Big Push Déjà Vu
20124
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The poor man's burden
20093
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The World Bank research observer 23 (1)
200810
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The ideology of development
200717
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How, and how not, to stop AIDS in Africa.
20074
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The Cartel of Good Intentions: The Problem Bureaucracy in Foreign Aid
200621
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The Lost Decades: Explaining Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998
200646
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Do Crises Induce Reform? Simple Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom
200617
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Globalization, inequality and development : the big picture
20047
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The Limits of Stabilization: Infrastructure, Public Deficits and Growth in Latin America
200392
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Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth
200324
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Life During Growth
199719
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Africa's Growth Tragedy : Policies and Ethnic Divisions
1996348
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HOW MUCH DOES POLICY AFFECT GROWTH
19920
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Economic policy and economic growth
199111
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Troubles with the Neighbours: Africas Problem, Africas Opportunity
19704

About William Easterly

William Easterly is a scholar working on Development, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Economics and Econometrics, having authored 176 papers that have together received 23.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include International Development and Aid (49 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (46 papers), Economic Growth and Productivity (38 papers), Economic Growth and Development (27 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (21 papers), Economic Theory and Policy (20 papers), Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (19 papers) and Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Development (4.6k citations), General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4.9k citations) and Economics and Econometrics (12.2k citations). William Easterly has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Ross Levine, Alberto Alesina, Sérgio Rebelo, Reza Baqir, Sergio Kurlat, Romain Wacziarg, Devashish Mitra, Michael Bruno, David Roodman and Aart Kraay. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Foreign Policy and World Development.

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