Structural reform - or more accurately talk of strucÂtural reform - is everywhere nowadays. Every counÂtry struggling for economic growth,…
We analyze a novel lobbying channel: firms shifting spending toward a politician's business in the hope of securing favorable regulation.…
We often observe that more successful efforts to establish complex state capabilities are problem driven; focused relentlessly on solving a…
We collect a new dataset on capital punishment in the US and we propose a test of racial bias based upon patterns of sentence reversals. We…
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "…
We estimate the effect of television on fertility in Brazil, where soap operas portray small families. We exploit differences in the timing…
This paper studies the relationship between civil war and the value of firms in a poor, resource-abundant country using microeconomic data…
This paper explores how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income prospects. In addition to estimating the impact…
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically…