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Estimating the Effect of Transitory Economic Shocks on Civil Conflict

Review of Economics and Institutions, 4 (2), 2013, 1-14

The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound (with F. Caselli)

Journal of Development Economics, 104, 2013, 199-211

Oil Price Shocks, Income, and Democracy  (with M. Brückner and A. Tesei)

Review of Economics and Statistics, 94 (2), 2012, 389-399

Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3 (4), 2011, 215-227

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Rain and the Democratic Window of Opportunity (with M. Brückner)

Econometrica, 79 (3), 2011, 923-947

Determinants of Economic Growth: Will Data Tell? (with M. Jarocinski)

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2 (4), 2010, 222-246

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International Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Outbreak of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa (with M. Brückner)

Economic Journal, 120 (544), 2010, 519-534

Human Capital, the Structure of Production, and Growth (with E. Papaioannou)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 91 (1) 2009, 66-82

Red Tape and Delayed Entry (with E. Papaioannou)
Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, 5 (2-3), 2007, 444-458

Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with Applications (with G. Peri)
Review of Economic Studies, 73 (2), 2006, 381-412

Long-run Substitutability Between More and Less Educated Workers: Evidence from US States 1950-1990 (with G. Peri)
Review of Economics and Statistics, 87 (4), 2005, 652-663

Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty: Comment
American Economic Review, 94 (3), 2004, 785-795

Trade and Productivity (with F. Alcalá)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXIX (2), 2004, 613-646

On Payoff Heterogeneity in Games with Strategic Complementarities (with J. Costain)
Oxford Economic Papers, 56 (4), 2004, 701-713

Input Chains and Industrialization
Review of Economic Studies, 69 (3), 2002, 565-587

Agglomeration Effects in Europe
European Economic Review, 46 (2), 2002, 213-227

Efficiency and Equilibrium with Dynamic Increasing Aggregate Returns due to Demand Complementarities (with K. Matsuyama)
Econometrica, 67 (3), 1999, 499-525

Start-up Costs and Pecuniary Externalities as Barriers to Economic Development (with K. Matsuyama)
Journal of Development Economics, 49 (1), 1996, 33-59

Productivity and the Density of Economic Activity (with R. Hall)
American Economic Review, 86 (1), 1996, 54-70