Research

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Publications

  • “Early Life Determinants of Neurocognitive Development In Children: Evidence From The Pune Maternal Nutrition Study (PMNS)” with Chittaranjan Yajnik, Souvik Bandyopadhyay, Ashwini Sankar, Vidya Bhate, and Rishikesh Behere, forthcoming, Journal of Development Origins of Health and Disease, 2022.

  • “The Great Gatsby Curve” with Steven Durlauf and Andros Kourtellos, Annual Review of Economics, 14, p. 571-605, 2022. (Also, NBER Working Paper 29761.)

  • "The Role of Rural and Urban Geography and Gender in Community Stigma Around Mental Illness" with Shawnda Schroeder, Brian Urlacher, and Thomasine Heitkamp, Health Education and Behavior, 48(1), p. 63-73, 2021.

  • “Local Intergenerational Mobility” with Andros Kourtellos and Christa Marr, European Economic Review, 126, 103460, 2020.

  • “The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Temperature Extremes on Birth Outcomes: The Case of China” with Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, and Xin Zhang, Journal of Population Economics, 33, p. 1263–1302, 2020.

  • "Do the Lessons From Micro-Conflict Literature Transfer to High Crime Areas?: Examining Mexico’s War on Drugs" with Muhammad Nasir and Marc Rockmore, Journal of Development Studies, 56:1, p. 26-44, 2019. PDF

    • "The Famine in Ghana and Its Impact," with Marc Rockmore, Handbook of Famine, Starvation, and Nutrient Deprivation, ed. Victor R. Preedy & Vinood B. Patel, Springer Nature, 2019. LINK

    • “Evaluating the Instantaneous and Medium-run Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Firm Values” with Marcelo Bianconi, International Review of Economics and Finance, 59, p.71-87, 2019. PDF

  • “The Impact of Sustained Attention on Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Ghana” with Dhanushka Thamarapani, Review of Development Economics, 23(1), p. 155-171, 2019. PDF

  • "Status Traps" with Steven Durlauf and Andros Kourtellos, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 35(2), p. 265-287, 2017. PDF

  • “Structural Threshold Regression” with Andros Kourtellos and Thanasis Stengos, Econometric Theory, 32(4), p. 827-860, 2016. PDF

  • "Robust Determinants of Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Opportunity" with Andros Kourtellos and Christa Marr, European Economic Review, 81, p. 132-147, 2016. PDF

  • "Determinants of Systemic Risk and Information Dissemination" with Marcelo Bianconi and Xiaxin Hua, International Review of Economics and Finance, 38, p. 352-368, 2015. PDF

    • “Robust Multiple Regimes in Growth Volatility” with Andros Kourtellos and Ioanna Stylianou, Empirical Economics, Special Issue on Nonparametric Growth Econometrics, 48, p. 461-491, 2015. PDF Online Appendix

  • “Hits and Runs: Determinants of the Cross-Country Variation in the Severity of Impact from the 2008-9 Financial Crisis” with Shane Dwyer, Journal of Macroeconomics, 42, p. 69-90, 2014. PDF

  • “The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Malnutrition on Cognitive Development: The Case of Famine in Ghana” with Samuel K. Ampaabeng, Journal of Health Economics, 32(6), p. 1013-1027, 2013. PDF

  • “Failure to Launch? The Role of Land Inequality in Transition Delays” with Andros Kourtellos and Ioanna Stylianou, European Economic Review, 62, p. 98-113, 2013. PDF

  • “The Effect of Public Debt on Growth in Multiple Regimes” with Andros Kourtellos and Thanasis Stengos, Journal of Macroeconomics, Dynamics, Economics Growth, and International Trade (DEGIT) XVII Special Issue, 38, p. 35-43, 2013. PDF

  • “Is God in the Details?: A Reexamination of the Role of Religion in Economic Growth” with Steven N. Durlauf and Andros Kourtellos, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 27(7), p. 1059-1075, 2012. PDF Data and Program Files

  • “Do Political Institutions Yield Multiple Growth Regimes?” with David Coyne, Economics Bulletin, 32(2), p. 1442-1454, 2012. PDF

  • “No One True Path: Uncovering the Interplay Between Geography, Institutions, and Fractionalization in Economic Development,” Journal of Applied Econometrics, 25(7), p. 1100-1127, 2010. PDF

  • “Do Institutions Rule? The Role of Heterogeneity in the Institutions vs. Geography Debate” with Andros Kourtellos and Thanasis Stengos, Economics Bulletin, 30(3), p. 1710-1719, 2010. PDF

  • “Understanding Preferences for Income Redistribution” with Louise C. Keely, Journal of Public Economics, 92, p. 944-961, 2008. PDF

  • “Are Any Growth Theories Robust?” with Steven N. Durlauf and Andros Kourtellos, Economic Journal, 118, p. 329-346, 2008. PDF Data

  • “Economic Growth Nonlinearities,” New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, eds. Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008. PDF

  • “Empirics of Growth and Development” with Steven N. Durlauf and Andros Kourtellos, International Handbook of Development Economics, eds. Amitava Dutt and Jaime Ros, Volume 1, Edward Elgar, 2008. PDF

  • “Is the Relationship between Aid and Growth Nonlinear?” with Andros Kourtellos and Xiaobo Zhang, Journal of Macroeconomics, Special Issue on the Empirics of Growth Nonlinearities, 29 (3), p. 515-540, 2007. PDF

Working Papers

  • “Positive Early Life Rainfall Shocks and Adult Mental Health” with Mochamad Pasha and Marc Rockmore, 3rd R&R, 2022. PDF

  • "The Intergenerational Legacy of the 1959-61 Great Chinese Famine on Children’s Cognitive Development" with Zhibo Tan and Xiaobo Zhang, R&R, 2022.

  • “It’s All In The Stars: The Lunar Zodiac and the Effects of Parental Investments on Offspring’s Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development,” with Xiao Wang and Xiaobo Zhang, under submission, 2022. IFPRI Discussion Paper

  • “The Other Great Depression: The Long-Run Impact of Early Shocks from the Great Chinese Famine on Mental Health” with Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang, 2022.

  • “Equality of Opportunity (EOp), the Great Gatsby Curve (GGC), and Polarization” with Giovanni Bernardo, Steven Durlauf, and Andros Kourtellos, 2022.

  • “A New Approach to Measuring Genetic and Environmental Effects in Twins Studies” with Steven Durlauf and Andros Kourtellos, 2022.

  • “The Intergenerational Impact of the Great Chinese Famine on Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Recent Hospitalization Data” with Xiaobo Zhang and Xin Zhang, 2022.

  • “Understanding Changes in Attitudes Towards Redistribution and Government after the Great Recession” with Christa Marr, 2020.

  • "Institutions, Technological Diffusion, and Economic Performance: A Latent Class Approach" with Anna Seim, 2020.

  • “More Credit, More Problems? Federal Student Loan Limits and Education Outcomes” with Cullen Goenner, 2018. PDF