Citation “Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries,” (2015) (with Leander Heldring, Bonn, and Sebastian Vollmer, Göttingen), NBER Working paper #21450. Download (PDF) Monks, Gents and Industrialists: The...

Citation “Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality,’’ (2015) (joint with Daron Acemoglu, MIT, Suresh Naidu, Columbia, and Pascual Restrepo, MIT), in Anthony B. Atkinson and François Bourguignon eds. Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2B, Amsterdam: North-Holland....

Citation “Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa,” (2015) (joint with Leander Heldring, University of Oxford) forthcoming in Carol Lancaster and Nicolas Van de Walle eds. Handbook on the Politics of Development, to be published by Oxford University Press....

Citation “Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test,” (2015) (with Sara Lowes, Nathan Nunn and Jonathan Weigel, Harvard), American Economic Review, 105(5), 340-345. Download (PDF) Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa:...

Citation “He Who Counts Wins: Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Elections,” (2015) (with Isaías Chaves, Stanford University, and Leopoldo Fergusson, University of the Andes), Economics and Politics, 27(1), 124-159. Download (PDF) He Who Counts...

Citation “Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success,” (2013) in Augustin K. Fosu ed. Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World, New York: Oxford University Press. Access Article Botswana as a Role Model for Country Success...

Citation “Property Rights and African Poverty,” (2010) Defining Ideas, 2010:1, 143-151. Article Property Rights and African Poverty      

Citation “All the World's a Lab” (2010) (with Jared Diamond, UCLA) New Scientist, 3/27/2010, Vol. 205 Issue 2753, 28-31. Article All the World's a Lab  

Citation “Comparative Democratization: Advances in Quantitative Research,” (2010) American Political Science Association, Comparative Democratization, 8:3, 1 and 8-11. Download (PDF) Comparative Democratization: Advances in Quantitative Research

Citation “The Missing Middle Class: Economic and Political Consequences of the Holocaust in Russia,” (2011) (joint with Daron Acemoglu, MIT and Tarek Hassan, University of Chicago), Quaterly Journal of Economics, 126, 895–946. Download (PDF) The Missing Middle Class:...