Recent Journal Publications
Explore the most recent peer-reviewed articles by EGC affiliates on this page. To access article from previous years, click the links to the right.
2022 Publications
La “Doña” è Mobile: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in a Pre-Modern Economy
José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, Salvador Gil-Guirado, and Chris Vickers. 2022. The Journal of Economic History 82(1): 1–41. doi:10.1017/S0022050722000018.
Taxes and Turnout: When the Decisive Voter Stays at Home
Felix Bierbrauer, Aleh Tsyvinski, and Nicolas Werquin. 2022. American Economic Review, 112 (2): 689-719. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20171927
Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities, and Optimal Farm Size
Andrew D. Foster and Mark Rosenzweig. 2022. Journal of Political Economy (130)3.
Rationing the Commons
Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan. 2022. Journal of Political Economy 130 (1): 210–257.
2021 Publications
“The Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh”
Jason Abaluck, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, et al. 2021. Science 375(6577). DOI: 10.1126/science.abi9069
Subsidies for technology adoption: Experimental evidence from rural Cameroon
Niccolò F. Meriggi, Erwin Bulte, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. 2021. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 153, 2021, 102710, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102710
Identifying the Costs of a Public Health Success: Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh
Mark M Pitt, Mark R Rosenzweig, M Nazmul Hassan. 2021. The Review of Economic Studies, 88(5): 2479–2526.
Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Litigation in Public Regulation, from the 1880s to the 1930s
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer. 2021. Law and History Review, 39(3), 569-600. doi:10.1017/S0738248021000304.
Discussion of “The ‘Matthew effect’ and market concentration: Search complementarities and monopsony power” by Fernández-Villaverde, Mandelman, Yu and Zanetti
Michael Peters. 2021. Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 121, 2021, Pages 91-94,ISSN 0304-3932, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2021.03.006.
On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Impacts Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Erica M. Field, Rohini Pande, Natalia Rigol, Simone G. Schaner, and Charity Troyer Moore. 2021. American Economic Review, 111(7): 2342-75.
Doing Business In China: Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Business
Ruixue Jia, Xiaohuan Lan, Gerard Padró i Miquel. 2021. Journal of Development Economics, Volume 151, 102670, ISSN 0304-3878, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102670.
Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?
Lori Beaman, Ariel BenYishay, Jeremy Magruder, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. 2021. American Economic Review, 111 (6): 1918-43. DOI: 10.1257/aer.20200295.
Why Is Growth in Developing Countries So Hard to Measure?
Noam Angrist, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, and Dean Jolliffe. 2021. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 35(3): 215-42.
The Competitive Effects of Transmission Infrastructure in the Indian Electricity Market
Nicholas Ryan. 2021. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(2): 202-42. DOI: 10.1257/mic.20180191.
Water Theft as Social Insurance: South‐Eastern Spain, 1851–1948
Javier D. Donna and José-Antonio Espín‐Sánchez. 2021. The Economic History Review, 74(3): 721-753. doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13047.
Creating a New Legal Form: The GmbH
Timothy W. Guinnane. 2021. Business History Review 95(1):3–32.
Measuring Human Capital Using Global Learning Data
Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, and Harry A. Patrinos. 2021. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03323-7.
Falling Living Standards During the COVID-19 Crisis: Quantitative Evidence from Nine Developing Countries
Dennis Egger, Edward Miguel, Shana S. Warren, Ashish Shenoy, Elliott Collins, Dean Karlan, Doug Parkerson, A. Mushfiq Mobarak, Günther Fink, Christopher Udry, Michael Walker, Johannes Haushofer, Magdalena Larreboure, Susan Athey, Paula Lopez-Pena, Salim Benhachmi, Macartan Humphreys, Layna Lowe, Niccoló F. Meriggi, Andrew Wabwire, C. Austin Davis, Utz Johann Pape, Tilman Graff, Maarten Voors, Carolyn Nekesa, and Corey Vernot. 2021. Science Advances.
The benefits and costs of social distancing in high- and low-income countries
Zachary Barnett-Howell, Oliver John Watson, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. 2021 Jan. DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/traa140.
Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries
Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, and Michael Peters. 2021. American Economic Review, Vol. 111, No. 1, pp. 231-75)
Wages, Experience, and Training of Women over the Life Cycle
Richard Blundell, Monica Costa-Dias, David Goll, and Costas Meghir. 2021. Journal of Labor Economics, Volume 39, Number S1, Published for the Society of Labor Economists, Economics Research Center/ NORC. Article DOI https://doi.org/10.1086/711400.