Edited Book

Demographic Change and Long Run Development with Uwe Sunde.  MIT Press 2017 - MIT Press webpage -  Intro - Content

Long Run Growth

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

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

Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition wtih Sunde. Journal of Economic Growth, 2011, 16(2), pages 99-133. PDF

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

Political Economics

Income and Democracy: Comment with 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 with Vanin. Journal of Public Economics,  2013 vol. 103(C),  15-28.  PDF

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

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

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

Economic Demography 

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

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

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

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

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

Civil Conflicts - Democratization

Pathogens, Weather Shocks, and Civil Conflicts with Sunde and Valmori. Economic Journal, forthcoming. PDF

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

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

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

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

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