Culture

Cultural Change and Effects of Culture

• La Ferrara, E., Chong, A. and Duryea, S., 2012. "Soap operas and fertility: Evidence from Brazil". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 4(4), pp.1-31. (Data)
• Banerjee, A., La Ferrara, E., & Orozco, V. (2019, May). Entertainment, education, and attitudes toward domestic violence. In AEA Papers and Proceedings (Vol. 109, pp. 133-137).
• Banerjee, A., La Ferrara, E., & Orozco-Olvera, V. H. (2019). The entertaining way to behavioral change: Fighting HIV with MTV NBER WP, No. w26096. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Ang, D. (2022). The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate.
• Esposito, E., Rotesi, T., Saia, A., & Thoenig, M. (2023). Reconciliation narratives: The birth of a nation after the us civil war. Forthcoming AER.
• Fernández, R., Parsa, S., & Viarengo, M. (2019). Coming out in America: AIDS, politics, and cultural change NBER WP, No. w25697. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Fernández, R., & Parsa, S. (2022). Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans and Same‐sex Relationships. Economica, 89, S86-S109.
• Fernández, R., Parsa, S., & Viarengo, M. (2021). Coming out in America: thirty years of cultural change. Unpublished paper.
• Caprettini, B., & Voth, H. J. (2023). New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(1), 465-513.
• Gulesci, S., Lombardi, M., & Ramos, A. (2023). Telenovelas and attitudes toward the LGBTQ+ community in Latin America. Labour Economics, 102488.

Deep-Roots of Culture, Persistence, and Effects

• Enke, B. (2019). Kinship, cooperation, and the evolution of moral systems. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(2), 953-1019.
• Cappelen, A. W., Enke, B., & Tungodden, B. (2022). Universalism: Global Evidence NBER WP No. w30157. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Enke, B., Rodríguez-Padilla, R., & Zimmermann, F. (2022). Moral universalism and the structure of ideology. Forthcoming Review of Economic Studies.
• Le Rossignol, E., & Lowes, S. (2022). Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism: Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies NBER WP No. w30259. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Cao, Y., Enke, B., Falk, A., Giuliano, P., & Nunn, N. (2021). Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence NBER WP No. w29250. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Sahil Chinoy, Nathan Nunn, Sandra Sequeira, Stefanie Stantcheva. (2022). Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of US Political Divides
• Anastasia Litina, Èric Roca Fernández (2023). Solar Eclipses and the Origins of Critical Thinking and Complexity, The Economic Journal
• Dessi, R., Ren, J., & Zhao, X. (2023). Shame, Guilt, and Motivated Self-Confidence (No. 2023-24). Monash University, Department of Economics.
• Bazzi, S., Brodeur, A., Fiszbein, M., & Haddad, J. (2023). Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States (No. w31079). National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Brodeur, A., & Haddad, J. (2021). Institutions, attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the gold rush. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 187, 92-110. (WP)

Racism

• Ang, D. (2022). The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate.
• Albright, A., Cook, J. A., Feigenbaum, J. J., Kincaide, L., Long, J., & Nunn, N. (2021). After the burning: The economic effects of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre NBER WP No. w28985. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Derenoncourt, E. (2022). Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration. American Economic Review, 112(2), 369-408.
• Derenoncourt, E., Kim, C. H., Kuhn, M., & Schularick, M. (2022). Wealth of two nations: The US racial wealth gap, 1860-2020 NBER WP No. w30101. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Williams, J. (2022). Historical lynchings and the contemporary voting behavior of blacks. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(3), 224-53.
• Voigtländer, N., & Voth, H. J. (2012). Persecution perpetuated: the medieval origins of anti-Semitic violence in Nazi Germany. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(3), 1339-1392.
• Ang, D. (2022). The Birth of a Nation: Media and Racial Hate.
• Esposito, E., Rotesi, T., Saia, A., & Thoenig, M. (2023). Reconciliation narratives: The birth of a nation after the us civil war. Forthcoming AER.

Immigration

• Burchardi, K. B., Chaney, T., Hassan, T. A., Tarquinio, L., & Terry, S. J. (2020). Immigration, innovation, and growth NBER WP No. w27075. National Bureau of Economic Research. R&R AER
• Sequeira, S., Nunn, N., & Qian, N. (2020). Immigrants and the Making of America. The Review of Economic Studies, 87(1), 382-419.
• Droller, F. (2018). Migration, population composition and long run economic development: Evidence from settlements in the pampas. The Economic Journal, 128(614), 2321-2352.
• Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., Jácome, E., & Pérez, S. (2021). Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in the United States over two centuries. American Economic Review, 111(2), 580-608.
• Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L., & Eriksson, K. (2020). Do immigrants assimilate more slowly today than in the past?. American Economic Review: Insights, 2(1), 125-141.
• Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. P., & Eriksson, K. (2012). Europe's tired, poor, huddled masses: Self-selection and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration. American Economic Review, 102(5), 1832-1856.
• Abramitzky, R., Boustan, L. P., & Eriksson, K. (2014). A nation of immigrants: Assimilation and economic outcomes in the age of mass migration. Journal of Political Economy, 122(3), 467-506.
• Obolensky, M., Tabellini, M., & Taylor, C. A. (2024). Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates (No. 16710). Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

Books, Ideas, and Human Capital

• Grajzl, P., & Murrell, P. (2023). A Macroscope of English Print Culture, 1530-1700, Applied to the Coevolution of Ideas on Religion, Science, and Institutions. Applied to the Coevolution of Ideas on Religion, Science, and Institutions (January 24, 2023).
• De la Croix, D., & Goñi, M. (2021). Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800). CEPR Discussion Paper 15159
• De la Croix, D., Docquier, F., Fabre, A., & Stelter, R. (2020). The Academic Market and the Rise of Universities in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1000-1800).
• Chaney, E. (2020). Modern Library Holdings and Historic City Growth.
• Dittmar, J. E. (2011). Information technology and economic change: the impact of the printing press. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126(3), 1133-1172.
• Islam, A., Jedwab, R., Romer, P., & Pereira, D. (2019). Returns to Experience and the Sectoral Misallocation of Labor across Sectors, Occupations, Locations and Cities
• Almelhem, A., Iyigun, M., Kennedy, A., & Rubin, J. (2023). Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis.

Religion

• Arya, Y., & Chaudhary, A. (2021). Resisting Modernisation due to Foreign Occupation: The Role of Religious Identity. Available at SSRN 3945580.
• De la Croix, D., & Vitale, M. (2022). Women in European academia before 1800-religion, marriage, and human Capital.
• Blasutto, F., & De la Croix, D. (2021). Catholic censorship and the demise of knowledge production in early modern Italy.
• Chaney, E. (2016). Religion and the rise and fall of Islamic science. Work. Pap., Dep. Econ., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA.
• Dulay, D. (2022). The search for spices and souls: Catholic missions as colonial state in the philippines. Comparative Political Studies, 55(12), 2050-2085.
• Nunn, N. (2010). Religious conversion in colonial Africa. American Economic Review, 100(2), 147-152.
• Barro, R., Hwang, J., & McCleary, R. (2010). Religious conversion across countries. NBER WP 32046.

Institutions

• Acemoglu, D., Ajzenman, N., Aksoy, C. G., Fiszbein, M., & Molina, C. A. (2021). (Successful) democracies breed their own support NBER WP No. w29167. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Testa, P. A. (2021). Shocks and the spatial distribution of economic activity: The role of institutions. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 183, 791-810.
• Jha, S., 2013. "Trade, institutions, and ethnic tolerance: Evidence from South Asia". American political Science review, 107(4), pp.806-832.
• Seyler, F., & Silve, A. (2021). Frontier planters, immigrants, and the abolition of slavery in Brazil. Immigrants, and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil.
• Seyler, F., & Silve, A. (2022). The end of slavery in Brazil: Escape and resistance on the road to freedom (May be updated version of previosu one).
• Ottinger, S., & Voigtländer, N. (2021). [History’s masters: The effect of european monarchs on state performance] NBER WP No. w28297. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Bahrami-Rad, D., Beauchamp, J., Henrich, J., & Schulz, J. (2022). Kin-based institutions and economic development.

Pre-colonial states and Colonialism

• Montalvo, J. G., & Reynal-Querol, M. (2020). Colonization, early settlers and development: The case of Latin America.
• Heblich, S., Redding, S. J., & Voth, H. J. (2022). Slavery and the british industrial revolution NBER WP No. w30451. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Feir, D. L., Gillezeau, R., & Jones, M. E. (2022). The slaughter of the bison and reversal of fortunes on the great plains NBER WP No. w30368. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Heldring, L. (2021). The origins of violence in Rwanda. The Review of economic studies, 88(2), 730-763.
• Dincecco, M., Fenske, J., Menon, A., & Mukherjee, S. (2022). Pre-colonial warfare and long-run development in india. The Economic Journal, 132(643), 981-1010.
• Whatley, W. (2022). How the International Slave Trades Underdeveloped Africa. The Journal of Economic History, 82(2), 403-441.
• Carlos, A. M. (2022). The country that they built: The dynamic and complex indigenous economies in North America before 1492 (No. 2022-13). QUCEH Working Paper Series.

Persistence

• Drelichman, M., Vidal-Robert, J., & Voth, H. J. (2021). The long-run effects of religious persecution: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(33), e2022881118.
• Seyler, F. (2021). Slavery, Political Attitudes and Social Capital: Evidence from Brazil. Journal of Historical Political Economy, 1(3), 377-409.
• Popescu, B. G., & Popa, M. (2022). Imperial rule and long-run development: Evidence on the role of human capital in Ottoman Europe. Comparative Political Studies, 55(11), 1910-1946.
• Banerjee, A., & Iyer, L. (2005). History, institutions, and economic performance: The legacy of colonial land tenure systems in India. American economic review, 95(4), 1190-1213.
• Torres Gaviria, R. (2022). Horsemen of the apocalypse: The Mongol Empire and the great divergence. Documento CEDE, (43).

Geography, Borders, Trade, and Development

• Dickens, A. (2022). Understanding ethnolinguistic differences: The roles of geography and trade. The Economic Journal, 132(643), 953-980.
• Fenske, J., & Kala, N. (2021). Linguistic distance and market integration in india. The Journal of Economic History, 81(1), 1-39.
• Kitamura, S. and Lagerlöf, N.P., 2019. "Geography and State Fragmentation". Journal of the European Economic Association (Data)
• Barjamovic, G., Chaney, T., Coşar, K., & Hortaçsu, A. (2019). Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the bronze age. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(3), 1455-1503.
• Abramson, S. F., Carter, D. B., & Ying, L. (2022). Historical border changes, state building, and contemporary trust in Europe. American Political Science Review, 116(3), 875-895.

Unified Growth

• Vogl, T. (2022). Fertility and the Education of African Parents and Children NBER WP No. w30474. National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Cervellati, M., Meyerheim, G., & Sunde, U. (2022). The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations: a unified growth perspective. Journal of Economic Growth, 1-52.
• Mandal, A., Regmi, N., & Tamura, R. (2021). Education, Fertility and Incomes in the States of India: Demographic Transition.
• Strulik, H. (2021). Testing Unified Growth Theory: Technological Progress and the Child Quantity--Quality Trade-off.
• Delventhal, M. J., Fernández-Villaverde, J., & Guner, N. (2021). Demographic transitions across time and space NBER WP No. w29480. National Bureau of Economic Research. (Data)
• Chu, A. C. (2023). Natural selection and Neanderthal extinction in a Malthusian economy. Journal of Population Economics, 1-16.

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