Economic History

"The Impact of Horses on Native American Nations." (joint with Rob Gillezeau, Motohiro Kamagai, and Sadia Mansoor)

"The Birth and Persistence of Cities: Evidence from the Oklahoma’s First Fifty Years of Urban Growth." (joint with John Brown)

"Finance and Urbanization in Early Nineteenth-Century New York." (with Howard Bodenhorn), Journal of Urban Economics, 2018. 

“The Effect of the Spanish Reconquest on Iberian Cities.” (with Rafael González-Val), Annals of Regional Science, 2017.

"Civil Conflict, Climate, and Population Concentration." (with Rafael González-Val)

Urban Economics

"Urban Accounting and Welfare in Spain" (with Enrique Moral-Benito),  second revision requested at Regional Science and Urban Economics.

"Políticas de redistribución espacial y regeneración urbana." (with Rafael González-Val) Presupuesto y Gasto Público. Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, 2021. 

"Urban Growth Shadows." (with Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport), Journal of Urban Economics, 2021.

"El origen y crecimiento de las ciudades". Ciudades: luces y sombras de un mundo cada vez más urbano. Panorama Scoial, 2021. 

"Concentración de la Población y Crecimiento Económico." Papeles de Economía Española, 2020. 

"Understanding Recent Growth Dynamics in Small Urban Places: The Case of New England.” (with Richard Ramsawak),  City and Communities, 2020. 

"Household Location in English Cites." (with Jennifer Roberts and Cristina Sechel), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019. 

"Sequential City Growth: Empirical Evidence." Journal of Urban Economics, 2011. 

Appendix for cities

Appendix for metropolitan areas 

"A Model of Sequential City Growth." The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 2009.  

“Internet Traffic and Distance between Cities.”  

“A Dynamic Spatial Model of Rural-Urban Transformation with Public Goods.” (with Luis Andrés and Dan Biller)  

El Auge y Declive de las Ciudades. 2006, Editorial Marcial-Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales, Sección Economía y Empresa

Growth and Economic Development

“The Impact of Canals on Local Growth in the U.S., 1790-1860." (with J. Chang and J. Zhang).

“The Impact of Horses on Native Americans.” (with D. Feir, R. Gillezeau, M. Kumagai, and S. Mansoor). 

“The Aggregate Gains of Eliminating Gender and Ethnic Gaps in the Malaysian Labor Market.” (with A. D. Schmillen and M. Teignier) Journal of Asian Economics, Volume 87, 2023.

“Firm size, selection, and entrepreneurship gender gaps in Chile.” (with M. Teignier) Latin American Economic Review, 2022.

“Equilibrium and A-efficient fertility with increasing returns to population and endogenous mortality.” (with R. Tamura) Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020.

“The Determinants of Entrepreneurship Gender Gaps: a Cross-Country Analysis.”  (with S. Priyanka and M. Teignier) Review of Development Economics, 2019.

“How Costly are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates for the Balkans and Turkey.” (with Ana Maria Munoz and Marc Teignier). Eastern European Economics, 2019.

"Macroeconomic Costs of Gender Gaps in a Model with Entrepreneurship and Household Production." (with Marc Teignier), B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2018.

"Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship and their Macroeconomic Effects in Latin America." (with Marc Teignier), IDB working paper series, IDB-WP-848, 2017.

“Gender Inequality and Macroeconomic Performance.” (with Monique Newiak and Marc Teignier). Chapter 3 in Women, Work, and Economic Growth. Leveling the Playing Field. Edited by Kalpana Kochhar, Sonali Jain-Chandra, and Monique Newiak. International Monetary Fund. 2017.

“Tackling Gender Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Mauritius.” (with Monique Newiak and Marc Teignier). Chapter 9 in Women, Work, and Economic Growth. Leveling the Playing Field. Edited by Kalpana Kochhar, Sonali Jain-Chandra, and Monique Newiak. International Monetary Fund. 2017.

“Deep-Rooted Determinants of the Fertility Transition across Countries.” (with Alberto Basso), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2017. 

Supplemental material 

“Aggregate Effects of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate.” (with Marc Teignier), Journal of Human Capital, 2016.

“Gender Inequality and Economic Growth.” (with Marc Teignier), background paper for the 2012 World Development Report, in Chapter 5 "Gender Differences in Employment and Why they Matter." The World Bank Washington, DC.

“Medium Term Growth: The Role of Policies and Institutions,” (with Michal Jerzmanowski) Frontiers of Economics and Globalization Medium Term Growth, in Olivier Olivier de La Grandville (ed.) Volume 11, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 2012.  

“Gender Inequality and Economic Growth: A Critical Review.” (with Marc Teignier), Journal of International Development, 2014.

“Fiscal Policy Institutions and History.” (with Andrew Mountford), Economics Letters, vol. 115, Issue 3, June 2012, pp. 392-395.

“Gender Inequality and Economic Growth.” (with Marc Teignier), background paper for the 2012 World Development Report, in Chapter 5 "Gender Differences in Employment and Why they Matter." The World Bank.

"Democracy, Diversification, and Growth Reversals." (with Michal Jerzmanowski) Economic Journal, 2009.

"Fertility and Financial Development: Evidence from U.S. Counties in the 19th Century." (with Alberto Basso and Howard Bodenhorn)

"The Determinants of Entrepreneurship Gender Gaps: A Cross-Country Analysis." (with Sadia Priyanka and Marc Teignier), Review of Development Economics, 2019.

"Statistical Gender Discrimination and Family Labor Market Decisions." (with Sevi Rodriguez-Mora, Ludo Visschers, and Marc Teignier) 

Other papers

"Land Concentration and Large Renewable Energy Projects." (with Aitor Lacuesta-Gabarain, Carlos Moreno, and Daniel Oto-Peralías)

"The Diffusion of the Internet: A Cross-Country Analysis." (with Luis Andres, Mamen Diouf and Tomas Serebrisky), Telecommunications Policy, 2010

Media Coverage of Publications

“Aggregate Costs of Gender Gaps in the Labor Market: A Quantitative Estimate.” (with Marc Teignier)

 The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21661804-gender-equality-good-economic-growth-girl-power

Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/09/23/trying-to-revive-a-sluggish-economy-look-to-women/

Royal Economic Society: http://www.res.org.uk/details/mediabrief/6070261/TACKLING-GENDER-INEQUALITY-WILL-BOOST-ECONOMIC-GROWTH.html

“Democracy, Diversification, and Growth Reversals.” (joint with Michal Jerzmanowski)

·         VOX: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/3875

·         Livemint.com: http://www.livemint.com/articles/2009/08/18214424/High-growth-not-inevitable.html

·         Nada es Gratis (Spanish Economics blog): http://www.fedeablogs.net/economia/?p=9281

“Sequential City Growth: Empirical Evidence.”

·         VOX: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/5868

·         Nada es Gratis (Spanish Economics blog): http://www.fedeablogs.net/economia/?p=8264

·         Por qué hay tantas armas en Estados Unidos? http://nadaesgratis.es/pedro-rey-biel/por-que-hay-tantas-armas-en-estados-unidos

·        Los costes económicos de las desigualdades de género en el mercado laboral   http://nadaesgratis.es/admin/los-costes-economicos-de-las-desigualdades-de-genero-en-el-mercado-laboral

·         Moving to opportunity: una intervención pública para reducir las trampas de pobreza en las ciudades:  nadaesgratis.es/david-cuberes/moving-to-opportunity-una-intervencion-publica-para-reducir-las-trampas-de-pobreza-en-las-ciudades

·         Presidentes y economía en Estados Unidos" http://nadaesgratis.es/david-cuberes/presidentes-y-economia-en-estados-unidos

·         Contra la congestión, peajes en las ciudades: http://nadaesgratis.es/david-cuberes/congestion-en-las-ciudades 

·          Robert D. Tollison http://nadaesgratis.es/fernandez-villaverde/robert-d-tollison