LONG-RUN COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT

The Empirics of Economic Growth Over Time and Across Nations: A Unified Growth Perspective, Cervellati, Meyerheim and Sunde  Journal of Economic Growth, 2023, 28, pp. 173 - 224 

The timing of the demographic transition and economic growth, Cervellati,  Meyerheim  and Sunde, Economics Letters, 2019, 181, pp. 43 - 46 

Demographic Dynamics and Long-Run Development: Insights for the Secular Stagnation Debate Cervellati,  Sunde and Zimmermann. Journal of Population Economics, 2017 vol. 30(2), pages 401-432 - PDF

The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development Cervellati and  Sunde. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2015 vol. 7(3), pages 189-225 - PDF

Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited Cervellati and Sunde. Econometrica 2013, 81(5),  2055-2086. PDF

Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions and Development Cervellati, Fortunato and Sunde. Economic Journal, 2008 118(531), 1354-1384. PDF

Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy, and the Process of Development  Cervellati,  Sunde. American Economic Review,  2005, 95(5), pages 1653-1672.  - PDF

POLITICAL ECONOMICS - INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

Historical Social Contracts and their Legacy: A Disaggregated Analysis for the Medieval Republics Cervellati, Buonanno, Lazzaroni and Prarolo, Journal of Economic Growth, 2022, 27, Article number: 1, pp. 485 - 526 

Malaria and Chinese economic activities in Africa Cervellati, Esposito, Yuan, Sunde. Journal of  Development Economics,  Volume 154, January 2022,

Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption. Cervellati, Naghavi and Toubal. Journal of Economic Growth,  Lead Article Volume 23, Issue 2, June 2018 

Roots and Fruits of Democracy: Natural Resources, Income Distribution and Social Violence Cervellati, Fortunato and Sunde. World Economic Review, 2015 (4), 1-27. PDF

Income and Democracy: Comment Cervellati, Jung, Sunde and Visher.  American Economic Review,  2014 - 104(2), pages 707-719, February.  PDF - Appendix - Read Me - Replication Files

“Thou shalt not covet”: Prohibitions, temptation and moral values Cervellati,  Vanin. Journal of Public Economics,  2013 vol. 103(C),  15-28.  PDF

Consensual and Conflictual Democratization Cervellati, Fortunato and Sunde. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2012 vol. 12(1),  1-51. PDF

Work Values, Endogenous Sentiments and Redistribution with Esteban and Kranich. Journal of Public Economics, 2010 - 94(9-10), 612-627. PDF

Are all democracies equally good? The role of interactions between political environment and inequality for rule of law  Cervellati, Fortunato and Sunde. Economics Letters, 2008, 99(3), 552-556. PDF

CIVIL CONFLICTS, VIOLENCE AND WARS

Epidemic Shocks and Civil Violence: Evidence from Malaria Outbreaks , in AfricaCervellati, Esposito and Sunde, Review of Economics and Statistics, (2022) 104 (4): 780–796 

Long-Term Exposure to Malaria and Violence in Africa . Cervellati, Esposito, Sunde and Valmori Economic Policy, 2018, 33(95),  403-446 

Pathogens, Weather Shocks, and Civil Conflicts . Cervellati, Sunde and Valmori Economic Journal, 2017 , 127 (December), 2581–2616 .PDF  

Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture Cervellati, Sunde. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014 - 116(2), 482-505. PDF

Democratizing for peace? The effect of democratization on civil conflicts Cervellati, Sunde. Oxford Economic Papers,  2014  66(3), 774-797. PDF

Violence during democratization and the quality of democratic institutions Cervellati, Fortunato and Sunde. European Economic Review, 2014 vol. 66(C),  226-247. PDF 

DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS

Long-Term Exposure to Malaria and Development: Disaggregate Evidence for Contemporaneous Africa Cervellati, Esposito and Sunde. Journal of Demographic Economics, 2017 - 83(1), 129-148. PDF

The effect of life expectancy on education and population dynamics Cervellati, Sunde. Empirical Economics, 2015 vol. 48(4), 1445-1478. PDF

The Distribution of Infectious Diseases and Extrinsic Mortality Across Countries Cervellati, Sunde and Valmori.  Mathematical Population Studies,  2012 vol. 19(2), 73-93. PDF

Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: the Role of the Demographic Transition. Cervellati and Sunde. Journal of Economic Growth, 2011, 16(2), pages 99-133. PDF

Disease and development: The role of life expectancy reconsidered Cervellati, Sunde. Economics Letters,  2011 vol. 113(3), 269-272. PDF