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Working Papers

2024

1. Deep Learning for Economists
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
2. Efficient OCR for Building a Diverse Digital History
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (2)
3. Linking Representations with Multimodal Contrastive Learning
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (3)

2023

4. A Massive Scale Semantic Similarity Dataset of Historical English
   Papers, arXiv.org View citations (1)
5. American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers
   Papers, arXiv.org
6. EfficientOCR: An Extensible, Open-Source Package for Efficiently Digitizing World Knowledge
   Papers, arXiv.org
7. Quantifying Character Similarity with Vision Transformers
   Papers, arXiv.org

2022

8. Noise-Robust De-Duplication at Scale
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2017

9. The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2020) View citations (57) (2020)
10. The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2018) View citations (101) (2018)

2016

11. Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2018) View citations (93) (2018)

2013

12. What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (35)
    See also Journal Article What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2014) View citations (1102) (2014)

2009

13. Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article Productivity Differences between and within Countries, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association (2010) View citations (121) (2010)
14. Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (281)
    See also Journal Article Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2009) View citations (280) (2009)

2008

15. Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (138)

Journal Articles

2022

1. A Comment on: “Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children” by Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti
   Econometrica, 2022, 90, (1), 31-33

2021

2. Persistence and transformation in economic development
   Indian Economic Review, 2021, 56, (2), 285-311 View citations (1)

2020

3. The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87, (1), 164-203 View citations (57)
   See also Working Paper The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (13) (2017)

2019

4. The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico
   American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, 1, (1), 43-58 View citations (46)

2018

5. Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133, (2), 701-764 View citations (93)
   See also Working Paper Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (11) (2016)
6. The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
   Econometrica, 2018, 86, (6), 2083-2121 View citations (101)
   See also Working Paper The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam, NBER Working Papers (2017) View citations (15) (2017)

2015

7. Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
   American Economic Review, 2015, 105, (6), 1738-79 View citations (187)

2014

8. What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2014, 52, (3), 740-98 View citations (1102)
   See also Working Paper What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (35) (2013)

2012

9. Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
   American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4, (3), 66-95 View citations (1073)

2011

10. Los efectos persistentes de la mita minera en el Perú
    Apuntes. Revista de ciencias sociales, 2011, 38, (68), 211-265

2010

11. Productivity Differences between and within Countries
    American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2, (1), 169-88 View citations (121)
    See also Working Paper Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries, NBER Working Papers (2009) View citations (7) (2009)
12. The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita
    Econometrica, 2010, 78, (6), 1863-1903 View citations (265)

2009

13. Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
    American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (2), 198-204 View citations (280)
    See also Working Paper Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates, NBER Working Papers (2009) View citations (281) (2009)