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ECONOMICS 495A: honors seminarfall 2018Tuesday 2:30-5:00pPsychology Building 235Professor Stephen O’ConnellOffice: Rich Building 306Office hours: Tuesday 10-12 PMEmail: soconnell@emory.eduCourse DescriptionThe Economics Honors Program consists of two parts. In the fall semester, students take this to learn research skills, develop a research project, and obtain the support of a faculty advisor. In the spring semester, students complete their research project under the direction of their main advisor and two other faculty members, which together constitute their Honors Committee. Students enroll in the second course of the 495 series in the Spring Semester and earn four credit hours. The program culminates in April with a presentation of their work before their Honors Committee. At that time, the Honors Committee will decide whether the thesis merits Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors. Regarding the composition of the Honors Committee, economics majors must have two faculty from economics and one from outside the department, while joint economics and mathematics majors must have one faculty member from economics, one from mathematics, and one from a third department.Course and Learning ObjectivesThe objective of the course is to expose students to the practices of professional research in economics. Students will:Develop research skills, including identifying questions, data, and methods,Learn research communication skills (in particular, presentation skills),Contribute to an intellectual environment by enhancing the ideas and efforts of colleagues in the Honors Seminar,Present others’ research and own research ideas to the class,Identify and coordinate with a faculty advisor,Write a research proposal that presents an interesting question that can be feasibly executed in the Spring semester.Course DesignWhen planning this course, I have tried to take into account what material will be of greatest use to you in writing your thesis. There is nothing that must be taught in this course. Most of you will benefit the most from writing an empirical thesis, so the course is structured around teaching you the things you need to do this effectively. The textbook offers a mostly non-mathematical explanation of important regression tools illustrates these techniques with a large number of well-explained examples. In the first several weeks of the semester, we will be reading this book and some companion papers as examples, and then also replicating pieces of the empirical research work for some example articles. I will also give methods lectures, and some discussion of dimensions of professional practice.Then, the remainder of the class will be devoted to practicing the presentation of published and unpublished papers, as well as you own research ideas. The presentation of published and new papers will give you an idea of how professional economists write journal articles, and will allow you to hone your presentation skills in an environment of collegiality and support. When you are not scheduled to present in a given week, you will be expected to give thoughtful critique to your presenting colleagues.The textbook and the articles are listed below and are available in pdf files in a directory I will make available to you. It will be the responsibility of each group to announce to the class ahead of time which articles will be read for their half of the class. Grading RubricCourse grades are based on class participation, project presentation, and project proposal. To retain eligibility for an “A” in the course, all of the following must be fulfilled:PARTICIPATIONAttend 12 or more class sessions.Attend 2 economics department seminars and submit/present plete the assignments on time/as scheduled.Make thoughtful comments/questions during class sessions; provide constructive critical feedback to your peers.Participate fully in your group presentations (see below for more on these groups).Meet with Dr. O’Connell twice during the semester (a) to discuss thesis topics and (b) to discuss your proposal.Submit preliminary, draft, and final proposals on time along with class presentations.THESIS PROPOSAL PRESENTATIONGive presentation following guidelines and instructions.Provide helpful comments to other presenters.FINAL PROPOSALSubmit by the deadline—the last day of the semester, December 12, 2018.List your confirmed advisors. Note: I cannot be faculty advisor to honors students in the spring.Research questions/hypotheses must be well-crafted, clear, and specific.Literature review should be comprehensive and relevant.Clearly articulate the contribution your research will make.Explain in detail and with clarity what data and methods will be used.LOGISTICSHave your dataset(s) in hand.Determine whether IRB is required for your research, and if so, submit for IRB review. Note: I highly advise against research projects that will require IRB review.Honors Program DatesMandatory Honors Meetings for Students TBD(students must register for and attend one of three meetings)Committee roster deadline for Spring 2019 graduatesJanuary 25, 2019ETD Deadline for Spring 2019 gradsApril 9, 2019, noonPaper Form Deadline for Spring 2019 gradsApril 11, 2019, noon Honors ceremonyMay 12, 2019Link to past honors theses: InformationOther course materials will be posted on Canvas. The readings are listed below. Also, the textbook is available at as a paperback or kindle.We will split the class into six groups of 3-4 students each. In some classes, students or groups will be responsible for leading the discussions. We will take an occasional break during our class meetings.Standard of CommunicationE-mails must follow standards for formal business communication. Additionally, e-mail subject lines should always have “EC495:” followed by your e-mail’s subject. I typically try to reply within 24 hours to weekday e-mails that follow these guidelines. Any form of recording of lectures or class discussion is prohibited.Course ScheduleTextbookAngrist, Joshua D. and J?rn-Steffen Pischke, 2015. Mastering ‘Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect. Princeton University Press.Supplementary textbooks and readingsMostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion, by Joshua D. Angrist and Jorn-Steffen Pischke. (This book covers much of the same material as ‘Metrics, but more formally/mathematically.)Causal Inference: The Mixtape (V.1.4 or most current), Scott Cunningham (2018). Free to download.Methods: Modern Empirical Economic Analysis & Causal Inference*AP Chapters 1*Leamer, Edward. 1983. “Let’s Take the Con Out of Econometrics.” The American Economic Review, 73 (1): 31-43. *Imbens, Guido, and Jeffrey Wooldridge (2009). “Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation.” Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 47, No. 1, pages 5-86. (first four sections are the most important) *Angrist, J. and J-S Pischke. 2010. “The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics: How Better Research Design is Taking the Con out of Econometrics.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 24(2): 3-30.Heckman, James J. 2000. “Causal Parameters and Policy Analysis in Economics: A Twentieth Century-Retrospective.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 115 (1):45-9*Keane, M. 2010. “Structural vs. atheoretic approaches to econometrics.” Journal of Econometrics 156:3-20.Sekhon, Jasjeet S. and Rocío Titiunik “When Natural Experiments are Neither Natural nor Experiments” American Political Science Review pp. 1 of 23, February 2012Taking the Dogma Out of Econometrics: Structural Modeling and Credible Inference By Aviv Nevo Northwestern University And Michael WhinstonLewbel, Arthur (forthcoming) “The Identification Zoo - Meanings of Identification in Econometrics”Low, Hamish and Costas Meghir, 2017. “The Use of Structural Models in Econometrics,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31(2): 33–58. Read pages 33-49.Methods: Regression Analysis and Instrumental Variables*AP Chapters 2-3*Angrist, J., and A. Krueger (1991) “Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106:979-1015.*Ashenfelter, Orley and Alan B. Krueger, (1994). “Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins,” American Economic Review 84 (5): 1157-1173.Training: Presentation skills and advice(6 handouts on Canvas)Methods: Difference-in-differences*AP Ch. 5*Card, David. 1990. “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (2): 245–57.*Card, David, and Alan B. Krueger. 1994. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” The American Economic Review 84 (4): 772–93.*Duflo, Esther (2001). “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment.” American Economic Review.Methods: Regression discontinuity designs (RDD)*AP Ch. 4*Angrist, Joshua A. and V. Lavy (1999) “Using Maimonides’ Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement," Quarterly Journal of Economics 1994:533-575.*Lee, David S. (2008). Randomized Experiments from Non-random Selection in U.S. House Elections, in Journal of Econometrics, 142(2) 675-697.Lee, D. S. and T. Lemieux. 2010. “Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics.” Journal of Economic Literature 448(2):281-355.Davis, Lucas (2008). “The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City.” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 116, No. 1, (February).*Carpenter, Christopher and Carlos Dobkin, 2009. “The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age,” American Economic Journal—Applied Economics 1(1): 164-182.Methods: ThoughtpieceDeaton, A. 2010. “Instruments, Randomization and Learning about Development.” Journal of Economic Literature 48(2):423-455.Further readings by topicTopic: Labor MarketsCard, David. 1990. “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43 (2): 245–57. Angrist, J., and A. Krueger (1991) “Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 106:979-1015.See Also:Bound, J., Jaeger, D.A., and Baker, R.M. 1995. "Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Variable is Weak," Journal of the American Statistical Association 90:443-450. (J)Bound, J. and Jaeger, D.A. 2000. “Do Compulsory School Attendance Laws Alone Explain the Association between Earnings and Quarter of Birth?” Research in Labor Economics 19:83-108. Buckles, C., and Hungerman, D. 2008. "Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers," NBER Working Paper 14573, December.Angrist, Joshua D., 1998. “Estimating the Labor Market Impact of Voluntary Military Service Using Social Security Data on Military Applicants,” Econometrica 66(2): 249–288.Ashenfelter, Orley and Alan B. Krueger, (1994). “Estimates of the Economic Returns to Schooling from a New Sample of Twins,” American Economic Review 84 (5): 1157-1173.Card, David, and Alan B. Krueger. 1994. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.” The American Economic Review 84 (4): 772–93.See also: Neumark, David, and William Wascher. 2000. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Comment.” The American Economic Review 90 (5): 1362–96.Card, David, and Alan B. Krueger. 2000. “Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania: Reply.” The American Economic Review 90 (5): 1397–1420.Camerer, Colin, Linda Babcock, George Loewenstein, and Richard Thaler, 1997. “Labor Supply Of New York City Cabdrivers: One Day at a Time,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(2): 407-441.Ashenfelter, O., and C. Rouse (1998) “Income, Schooling and Ability: Evidence from a New Sample of Identical Twins,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 113:253-284.Bound, J. and G. Solon (1999) “Double Trouble: On the Value of Twins-Based Estimation of the Return to Schooling,” Economics of Education Review 18:169-82.Duflo, Esther (2001). “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment.” American Economic Review.Oreopoulos, Philip. 2006. “Estimating Average and Local Average Treatment Effects of Education When Compulsory Schooling Laws Really Matter.” The American Economic Review 96(1): 152–75.Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester, and Michael Reich. 2010. “Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties.” Review of Economics & Statistics 92 (4): 945–64.Giuliano, Laura. 2013. “Minimum Wage Effects on Employment, Substitution, and the Teenage Labor Supply: Evidence from Personnel Data.” Journal of Labor Economics 31 (1): 155–94.Beaudry, Paul, David A. Green and Benjamin M. Sand, 2014. “The Declining Fortunes of the Young Since 2000,” American Economic Review 104(5): 381-386.Pallais A. Inefficient Hiring in Entry-Level Labor Markets. American Economic Review. 2014;104 (11):3565-3599.Subtopic: Wage Gaps and DiscriminationGoldin, Claudia D. 1990. Understanding the Gender Gap?: An Economic History of American Women. NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. New York: Oxford University Press.Card, David, and Alan B. Krueger. 1992. “School Quality and Black-White Relative Earnings: A Direct Assessment.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 107(1): 151–200.Goldin, Claudia, and Cecilia Rouse. 2000. “Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of ‘Blind’ Auditions on Female Musicians.” The American Economic Review 90 (4): 715–41.Bertrand, M. and S. Mullainathan (2004) "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination," American Economic Review 94:991-1013Carrell, Scott E., Marianne E. Page, and James E. West. 2010. “Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 125 (3): 1101–44.Nardinelli, Clark, and Curtis Simon. 1990. “Customer Racial Discrimination in the Market for Memorabilia: The Case of Baseball.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (3): 575–95.Fryer, Roland G. Jr. 2011. “Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination.” In Handbook of Labor Economics, edited by David Card and Orley Ashenfelter, 4, Part B:855–971. Elsevier.Bursztyn L, Fujiwara T, Pallais A. ‘Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments. American Economic Review. 2017;107 (11) :3288-3319.Mas A, Pallais A. Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements. American Economic Review. 2017;107 (12) :3722-3759.Glover D, Pallais A, Pariente W. Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery Stores. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2017;132 (3) :1219-1260.Subtopic: ImmigrationBorjas, G. J. (1987) “Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants,” American Economic Review, 77:531-53.Chiswick, B. (1978) "The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men," Journal of Political Economy 86:897-921.(*) Borjas, G. J. (1985) "Assimilation, Changes in Cohort Quality, and the Earnings of Immigrants," Journal of Labor Economics 3:463-489Borjas, G. J. (1995) “Assimilation and Changes in Cohort Quality Revisited: What Happened to Immigrant Earnings in the 1980s?” Journal of Labor Economics 13:201-245.Dustmann, Christian, Uta Sch?nberg, and Jan Stuhler, 2016. “The Impact of Immigration: Why Do Studies Reach Such Different Results?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(4): 31–56.Peri, Giovanni, 2016. “Immigrants, Productivity, and Labor Markets,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(4): 3–ic: EducationCard, David (1995) “Using Geographic Variation in College Proximity to Estimate the Returns to Schooling," in Aspects of Labour Market Behavior: Essays in Honour of John Vanderkamp, ed. L. H. Christophides, E. K. Grand, and R. Swidinsky. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 201-222.Betts, Julian R. 1995. “Does School Quality Matter? Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 77 (2): 231–50.Jaeger, David A., and Marianne E. Page. 1996. “Degrees Matter: New Evidence on Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 78(4): 733–40.Angrist, Joshua A. and V. Lavy (1999) “Using Maimonides’ Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement," Quarterly Journal of Economics 1994:533-575.Jacob, B. and Lefgren, L. 2004. “Remedial Education and Student Achievement: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis.” Review of Economics and Statistics 86(1):226-244. 2004.. (J)Altonji, Joseph G., Lisa B. Kahn and Jamin D. Speer, 2014. “Trends in Earnings Differentials across College Majors and the Changing Task Composition of Jobs,” American Economic Review 104(5): 387-393.Chabrier, Julia, Sarah Cohodes, and Philip Oreopoulos, (2016). “What Can We Learn from Charter School Lotteries?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(3): 57–84.Deming, David J., 2014. “Using School Choice Lotteries to Test Measures of School Effectiveness,” American Economic Review 104(5): 406-411.Diette, Timothy M. and Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, 2014. “Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance,” American Economic Review 104(5): 412-417.Clark, D. and Martorell, P. (2014) “The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma,” Journal of Political Economy 122(2): 282-318.Jacob, Brian and Jesse Rothstein, 2016. “The Measurement of Student Ability in Modern Assessment Systems,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(3): 85–ic: Health and Health PolicyGoldin, Claudia, and Lawrence F. Katz. 2002. “The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women’s Career and Marriage Decisions.” Journal of Political Economy 110 (4): 730–70. Almond, Douglas, 2006. “Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-Term Effects of In Utero Influeza Exposure in the Post‐1940 U.S. Population,” Journal of Political Economy 114(4): 672-712.See related: Brown, R. & Thomas, D. (2018) Brown R, Thomas D. On the long term effects of the 1918 US influenza pandemic. Working Paper. See related: Beach, Brian, Joseph P. Ferrie, Martin H. Saavedra (2018). “Fetal Shock or Selection? The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Human Capital Development,” NBER working paper #24725.Thornton, Rebecca L., “The Demand for, and Impact of, Learning HIV Status,” American Economic Review 2008, 98:5, 1829–1863.Carpenter, Christopher and Carlos Dobkin, 2009. “The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Mortality: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from the Minimum Drinking Age,” American Economic Journal—Applied Economics 1(1): 164-182.Almond, D. et al. 2010. “Estimating the Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns.” Quarterly Journal of Economics May, 591-634.Carpenter, Christopher and Carlos Dobkin, 2011. “The Minimum Legal Drinking Age and Public Health,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(2): 133-156.Joyce, Ted, Tan, Rou-Ding, Zhang, Yuxiu. 2013. “Abortion Before and After Roe.” Journal of Health Economics 32(3): 804-815.Currie, Janet and Hannes Schwandt, 2016. “Mortality Inequality: The Good News from a County-Level Approach,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(2): 29-52.Lundberg, Shelly, Robert A. Pollak, and Jenna Sterns, 2016. “Family Inequality: Diverging Patterns in Marriage, Cohabitation, and Childbearing,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 30(2): 79-ics: Development, Agriculture, EnvironmentDavis, Lucas (2008). “The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City.” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 116, No. 1, (February).Almond, Douglas, Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone, and Li Hongbin (2009). “Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy.”Allcott, Hunt (2011). "Social Norms and Energy Conservation." Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 95, No 9-10 (October), pages 1082-1095.Dell, Melissa, Benjamin Jones, and Benjamin Olken (2011). “Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century.”Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin (2006). “Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines.” Quarterly Journal of Economics.Duflo, E., Kremer, M. and J. Robinson. 2011.“Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya.” American Economic Review 101:2350-2390.Banerjee, Abhijit, Paul Gertler and Maitreesh Ghatak, 2002. “Empowerment and Efficiency: Tenancy Reform in West Bengal.” Journal of Political Economy.Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess (2000). “Land Reform, Poverty Reduction, And Growth: Evidence From India,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, MIT Press, 115(2), 389-430.Goldstein, Markus and Christopher Udry, “The Profits of Power: Land Rights and Agricultural Investment in Ghana,” Journal of Political Economy, 116 (2008), 981-1022.Hornbeck, Richard (2010). “Barbed Wire: Property Rights and Agricultural Development.” Quarterly Journal of Economics.Banerjee, Abhijit, and Lakshmi Iyer (2005). “History, Institutions, and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India.” American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 4 (September), pages 1190-1213.Galiani, Sebastian, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (2010). Property rights for the poor: Effects of land titling.” Journal of Public Economics.Subtopic: Public Finance and CorruptionParker, Susan, Luis Rubalcava, and Graciela Teruel (2010). “Evaluating Conditional Schooling and Health Programs.” Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 5.Schultz, T. Paul. 2004. “School subsidies for the poor: evaluating the Mexican Progresa poverty program.” Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 74, pp. 199-250.Alatas, Banerjee, Hanna, Olken, and Tobias (2010). “Targeting the Poor-Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.” Working Paper, Harvard University.Bertrand, Marianne, Simeon Djankov, Rema Hanna, and Sendhil Mullainathan (2007). “Obtaining a Driver’s License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption.” Quarterly Journal of Economics.Olken, Benjamin (2007). “Monitoring Corruption-Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia.” Journal of Political Economy.Olken, Benjamin (2005). “Corruption and the Costs of Redistribution: Micro Evidence from Indonesia.” Journal of Public Economics.”Fisman, Ray, 2001. “Estimating the Value of Political Connections.” American Economic Review.Duflo, Esther, and Rohini Pande (2007). “Dams.” Quarterly Journal of Economics (May).Donaldson, Dave (2010). “Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure.” Forthcoming, American Economic Review.Dinkelman, Taryn (2010). “The Effects of Rural Electrification on Employment: New Evidence from South Africa.” Forthcoming, American Economic Review.Subtopic: MicrofinanceKarlan, Dean, and Jonathan Zinman (2009). “Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment.” Econometrica.Burgess, Robin, and Rohini Pande (2005). Do Rural Banks Matter-Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment.” American Economic Review, 95(3), 780-795.Morduch, Jonathan (1999). “The Microfinance Promise.” Journal of Economic Literature.de Mel, Suresh, David McKenzie, and Christopher Woodruff (2008). "Returns to capital in microenterprises : evidence from a field experiment.” Quarterly Journal of EconomicsMcKenzie, David, and Christopher Woodruff (2006). “Do Entry Costs Provide an Empirical Basis for Poverty Traps? Evidence from Mexican Microenterprises.” Economic Development and Cultural Change.Besley, T., Coate, S., and Loury, G. (1993). “The Economics of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations,” American Economic Review, 83(4), 792–810.Karlan, Dean and Jonathan Zinman (2008). “Credit Elasticities in Less-Developed Economies-Implications for Microfinance. American Economic Review.” American Economic Review.Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, and Cynthia Kinnan (2010). “The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation.” Working Paper, MIT.Dupas, Pascaline, and Jonathan Robinson (2011). “Why Don’t the Poor Save More? Evidence from Health Savings Experiments.” Working Paper, Stanford University (July).Subtopic: Firms around the worldBanerjee, Abhijit, and Esther Duflo. "Reputation Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry." Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, no. 3 (2000): 989-1017.McMillan, John, and Christopher Woodruff. "Interfirm Relationships and Informal Credit in Vietnam." Quarterly Journal of Economics 114, no. 4 (1999): 1285-1320.Banerjee, Abhijit and Kaivan Munshi (2004). “How Efficiently is Capital Allocated? Evidence from the Knitted Garment Industry in Tirupur,” Review of Economic Studies, 71(1), 19-42.Khwaja, Asim Ijaz, and Atif Mian (2005). “Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent Provision in an Emerging Financial Market.” Quarterly Journal of Economics.Goldberg, Pinelopi, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova (2011). “Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth-Evidence from India.” Quarterly Journal of Economics.Goldberg, Pinelopi, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik, and Petia Topalova (2011). “Multiproduct Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World-Evidence from India.” Review of Economics and Statistics.Pavcnik, Nina (2002). “Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants.” Review of Economic Studies.Chaudhuri, Shubham, Pinelopi Goldberg, and (2006). “Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals-A Case Study of Quinolones in India.” American Economic Review.Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska (2004). “Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages.” American Economic Review.Hsieh, Chang Tai, and Peter Klenow (2014). “The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico.” Quarterly Journal of ic: Economic HistoryDouglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast, “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England," Journal of Economic History, Vol. 49, No. 4 (December 1989), pp. 803-32.Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development:An empirical investigation. American Economic Review, 91(5), 1369–140.Romer, Paul. “Why, Indeed, in America? Theory, History, and the Origins of Modern Economic Growth." American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 2 (May 1996).Lennon, Conor, 2016. “Slave Escape, Prices, and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850,” Journal of Law and Economics 59(August): 669-695.Greif, Avner. "Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: The Maghribi Traders' Coalition." American Economic Review 83, no. 3 (1993): 525-548.Besley, Timothy, and Maitreesh Ghatak (2010). “Property Rights and Economic Development.” Handbook of Development Economics, Vol. 5M. Scott Taylor, 2011. “Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison,” American Economic Review Vol. 101, No. 7, December 2011Lowes, Sara and Eduardo Montero "Mistrust in Medicine: The Legacy of Colonial Medical Campaigns in Central Africa"Dave Donaldson and Richard Hornbeck. “Railroads and American economic growth: A ‘marketaccess' approach,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 131(2):799{858, 2016Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin. “Portage and path dependence,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127:587-644, 2012Richard Hornbeck and Daniel Keniston. “Creative destruction: Barriers to urban growth and thegreat Boston fire of 1872,” American Economic Review, 107(6):1365{1398, 2017Richard Hornbeck and Suresh Naidu. When the levee breaks: black migration and economicdevelopment in the American south. The American Economic Review, 104(3):963{990, 2014Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, and Katherine Eriksson. 2014. A Nation of Immigrants:Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration. Journal of Political Economy122 (June): 467-506.Melissa Dell. The persistent effects of Peru's mining mita. Econometrica, 78(6):1863{1903, 2010Lowes, Sara, N. Nunn, J.A. Robinson, and J, Weigel “The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence from the Kuba Kingdom,” Econometrica, July 2017, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 1065-1091.Marcella Alsan and Marianne Wanamaker. Tuskegee and the health of black men. Technicalreport, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016Alsan, M., (2015). The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development. American Economic Review, 105(1): 382-410.Montero, Eduardo. 2018. “Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador”. Working Paper.Subtopic: Media EconomicsGentzkow, M, and Jesse M. Shapiro (2010) “What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers,” Econometrica. 78 (1). January 2010.Gentzkow, M, and Jesse M. Shapiro and Michael Sinkinson, (2011) “The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics,” American Economic Review. 101 (7). December 2011.Gentzkow, M, and Jesse M. Shapiro (2011) “Ideological Segregation Online and Offline,” Quarterly Journal of Economics. 126 (4). November 2011. Gentzkow, M, Jesse M. Shapiro and Michael Sinkinson (2014). “Competition and Ideological Diversity: Historical Evidence from US Newspapers,” American Economic Review. 104(10). October 2014.Allcott, Hunt and Matthew Gentzkow, 2017. “Social Media and Fake News in the 2016 election,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 31(2): 211–236. ................
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