Journal of Comparative Economics

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Volume 48, issue 4, 2020

The political agenda effect and state centralization pp. 749-778

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson and Ragnar Torvik

Going postal: State capacity and violent dispute resolution pp. 779-796

Jeffrey L. Jensen and Adam J. Ramey

Domestic segment of global value chains in China under state capitalism✰ pp. 797-821

Heiwai Tang, Fei Wang and Zhi Wang

Violence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war pp. 822-840

Marion Mercier, Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke and Philip Verwimp

Does violence against civilians depress voter turnout? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina pp. 841-865

Caterina Alacevich and Dijana Zejcirovic

Media’s role in the making of a democrat: Evidence from East Germany pp. 866-890

Tim Friehe, Helge Müller and Florian Neumeier

Is international tax competition only about taxes? A market-based perspective pp. 891-912

Céline Azémar, Rodolphe Desbordes and Ian Wooton

Culture, diversity, and the welfare state pp. 913-932

Klaus Gründler and Sebastian Köllner

Decentralization of firms in a country with weak institutions: Evidence from Russia pp. 933-950

Irina Levina

Human capital accumulation: Evidence from immigrants in low-income countries pp. 951-973

Kanat Abdulla

Import competition, fast-track authority and U.S. policy toward China pp. 974-996

Yi Che and Rui Xiao

The effect of non-employment-based health insurance program on firm's offering of health insurance: Evidence from the social health insurance system in China pp. 997-1010

Xiaoxue Li and Liu Tian

Volume 48, issue 3, 2020

The deep historical roots of modern culture: A comparative perspective pp. 483-508

Gérard Roland

Coups d’état and the cost of debt pp. 509-528

Hippolyte Balima

Wage inequality and skill supplies in a globalised world pp. 529-547

Lorenzo Rotunno and Adrian Wood

Mapping the theory of political representation to the empirics: An investigation for proportional and majoritarian rules pp. 548-560

David Stadelmann, Gustavo Torrens and Marco Portmann

Rich or alive? Political (in)stability, political leader selection and economic growth pp. 561-577

Shu Yu and Richard Jong-A-Pin

Redistribution of Economic Resources due to Conflict: The Maoist Uprising in Nepal pp. 578-604

Anirban Mitra and Shabana Mitra

Regional (in)stability in Europe a quantitative model of state fragmentation pp. 605-641

Jakob Vanschoonbeek

The company you keep: Satisfaction with life, economic freedom, and preference-policy mismatch pp. 642-657

Lester Hadsell and Adam T Jones

Unfair inequality, governance and individual beliefs pp. 658-687

J. Michelle Brock

Political connection, corporate philanthropy and efficiency: Evidence from China’s anti-corruption campaign pp. 688-708

Zhuoqun Hao, Yu Liu, Jinfan Zhang and Xiaoxue Zhao

Scientific personnel reallocation and firm innovation: Evidence from China’s college expansion pp. 709-728

Zhao Rong and Binzhen Wu

Religious rules as a means of strengthening family ties: Theory and evidence from the Amish pp. 729-748

James P. Choy

Volume 48, issue 2, 2020

Anti-muslim bias in the Chinese labor market pp. 235-250

Yue Hou, Chuyu Liu and Charles Crabtree

Fear Not For Man? Armed conflict and social capital in Mali pp. 251-276

Thomas Calvo, Emmanuelle Lavallée, Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud

Women's political leadership and economic empowerment: Evidence from public works in India pp. 277-291

Klaus Deininger, Hari K Nagarajan and Sudhir Singh

You are suffocating me: Firm-level analysis of state-owned enterprises and private investment pp. 292-301

Serhan Cevik

Social heterogeneity and local bias in peer-to-peer lending – evidence from China pp. 302-324

Jiajun Jiang, Yu-Jane Liu and Ruichang Lu

The effect of primary school type on the high school opportunities of migrant children in China pp. 325-338

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng and Yujie Han

The effect of communication and energy services reform on manufacturing firms’ innovation pp. 339-362

Maria Bas

The role of oil in the allocation of foreign aid: The case of the G7 donors pp. 363-383

Cécile Couharde, Fatih Karanfil, Eric Gabin Kilama and Luc Omgba

Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African economic and monetary union pp. 385-404

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Méango and Hillel Rapoport

Migration, trade and spillover effects pp. 405-421

Erik Figueiredo, Luiz Lima and Gianluca Orefice

The effects of immigration restriction laws on immigrant segregation in the early twentieth century U.S pp. 422-447

Dafeng Xu

The trade effects of skilled versus unskilled migration pp. 448-464

Peter Egger, Maximilian von Ehrlich and Douglas Nelson

Lineage networks, urban migration and income inequality: Evidence from rural China pp. 465-482

Jeremy Foltz, Yunnan Guo and Yang Yao

Volume 48, issue 1, 2020

Austerity and anarchy: Budget cuts and social unrest in Europe, 1919–2008 pp. 1-19

Jacopo Ponticelli and Hans-Joachim Voth

Farewell to the God of Plague: Estimating the effects of China's Universal Salt Iodization on educational outcomes pp. 20-36

Qingyang Huang, Chang Liu and Li-An Zhou

Educated dictators attract more foreign direct investment pp. 37-55

Abel François, Sophie Panel and Laurent Weill

Local financial development and constraints on domestic private-firm exports: Evidence from city commercial banks in China pp. 56-75

Zhao Chen, Sandra Poncet and Ruixiang Xiong

Historical legacies in savings: Evidence from Romania pp. 76-99

Sarah Walker

Clans, entrepreneurship, and development of the private sector in China pp. 100-123

Chuanchuan Zhang

Corruption and re-election: how much can politicians steal before getting punished? pp. 124-143

Vuk Vukovic

The impact of non-cognitive skills and risk preferences on rural-to-urban migration in Ukraine pp. 144-162

Sinem Ayhan, Kseniia Gatskova and Hartmut Lehmann

The PRC's long-run growth through the lens of the export-led growth model pp. 163-181

Jesus Felipe and Matteo Lanzafame

A model of tournament incentives with corruption pp. 182-197

Bin Wang and Yu Zheng

How fast does product market reform pay off? New evidence from non-manufacturing industry deregulation in advanced economies pp. 198-217

Romain Bouis, Romain Duval and Johannes Eugster

Estimating returns to education in urban China: Evidence from a natural experiment in schooling reform pp. 218-233

Yi Chen, Sheng Jiang and Li-An Zhou

Volume 47, issue 4, 2019

The great divergence in South Africa: Population and wealth dynamics over two centuries pp. 759-773

Dieter von Fintel and Johan Fourie

Droughts, conflict, and the African slave trade pp. 774-791

Levi Boxell

Power and publications in Chinese academia pp. 792-805

Ruixue Jia, Huihua Nie and Wei Xiao

Importing under trade policy uncertainty: Evidence from China pp. 806-826

Michele Imbruno

Terrain ruggedness and limits of political repression: Evidence from China’s Great Leap Forward and Famine (1959-61) pp. 827-852

Elizabeth Gooch

Regional distribution and dynamics of human capital in China 1985–2014 pp. 853-866

Barbara M. Fraumeni, Junzi He, Haizheng Li and Qinyi Liu

The economic contribution of the “C” in ICT: Evidence from OECD countries pp. 867-880

Peter Goodridge, Jonathan Haskel and Harald Edquist

Economy through a lens: Distortions of policy coverage in UK national newspapers pp. 881-906

James Bowden, Andrzej Kwiatkowski and Dooruj Rambaccussing

Explaining the standard errors of corruption perception indices pp. 907-920

Guangjun Qu, Bob Slagter, Kevin Sylwester and Kyle Doiron

Endogenous (in)formal institutions pp. 921-945

Serra Boranbay and Carmine Guerriero

Long-term impact of trade liberalization on human capital formation pp. 946-961

Jie Li, Yi Lu, Hong Song and Huihua Xie

Land rights, rental markets and the post-socialist cityscape pp. 962-974

Paul Castañeda Dower and William Pyle

Volume 47, issue 3, 2019

British colonialism and democracy: Divergent inheritances and diminishing legacies pp. 487-503

Alexander Lee and Jack Paine

Party hacks and true believers: The effect of party affiliation on political preferences pp. 504-524

Eric Gould and Esteban Klor

Preaching democracy: The second Vatican council and the third wave pp. 525-540

Thomas Andersen and Peter Jensen

Earthquakes and terrorism: The long lasting effect of seismic shocks pp. 541-561

José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol

Horizontal vs. vertical transmission of fertility preferences pp. 562-578

Andrea Di Miceli

Economic transition and private-sector labor: Evidence from urban China pp. 579-600

Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian and Xiaoxue Zhao

Foreign aid preferences and perceptions in donor countries pp. 601-617

Daniel Kaufmann, Eoin McGuirk and Pedro Vicente

Taxes and culture of leisure: Impact on labor supply in Europe pp. 618-639

Naci Mocan

Trade liberalization and Firms’ export performance in China: Theory and evidence pp. 640-668

Haichao Fan, Edwin Lai and (Steffan) Qi, Han

Mother's education and child development: Evidence from the compulsory school reform in China pp. 669-692

Ying Cui, Hong Liu and Liqiu Zhao

From central planning towards a market economy: The role of ownership and competition in Vietnamese firms’ productivity pp. 693-716

Manh-Duc Le, Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto

New evidence on income and the geographical distribution of imports: The case of audiovisuals pp. 717-734

Maria Masood

Does development aid increase military expenditure? pp. 735-757

Sarah Langlotz and Niklas Potrafke

Volume 47, issue 2, 2019

The colonial origins of fiscal capacity: Evidence from patronage governors pp. 263-276

Guo Xu

The Paradox of Power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes) pp. 277-294

Debin Ma and Jared Rubin

The quality-access tradeoff in decentralizing public services: Evidence from education in the OECD and Spain pp. 295-316

Susana Cordeiro Guerra and Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón

Do successful worker-managed firms degenerate? pp. 317-329

Andrés Dean

Missing poor and income mobility pp. 330-366

Mathieu Lefebvre, Pierre Pestieau and Gregory Ponthiere

Chinese competition and product variety of Indian firms pp. 367-395

Pavel Chakraborty and Michael Henry

Government reactions to private substitutes for public goods: Remittances and the crowding-out of public finance pp. 396-415

Christian Ambrosius

Family migration in China: Do migrant children affect parental settlement intention? pp. 416-428

Chunchao Wang, Chenglei Zhang, Jinlan Ni, Haifeng Zhang and Junsen Zhang

Cultural determinants of human capital accumulation: Evidence from the European Social Survey pp. 429-440

André van Hoorn

Exchange rate uncertainty and firm-level investment: Finding the Hartman–Abel effect pp. 441-457

Guangzhong Li, Jie Li and Yangru Wu

Are infant/toddler developmental delays a problem across rural China? pp. 458-469

Lei Wang, Wilson Liang, Siqi Zhang, Laura Jonsson, Mengjie Li, Cordelia Yu, Yonglei Sun, Qingrui Ma, Yu Bai, Cody Abbey, Renfu Luo, Ai Yue and Scott Rozelle

Corporate tax policy and heterogeneous firm innovation: Evidence from a developing country pp. 470-486

Yuchen Shao and Chengrui Xiao

Volume 47, issue 1, 2019

Testing legal origins theory within France: Customary laws versus Roman code pp. 1-30

David le Bris

National levels of corruption and foreign direct investment pp. 31-49

Josef Brada, Zdenek Drabek, Jose Mendez and M. Fabricio Perez

Adjusting the size of nations: Empirical determinants of separatism and the Soviet breakup pp. 50-64

Marvin Suesse

Rebellions, Technical Change, and the Early Development of Political Institutions in Latin America pp. 65-89

Alvaro Aguirre

Ex-ante labor market effects of compulsory military service pp. 90-110

Huzeyfe Torun

Toward understanding 17th century English culture: A structural topic model of Francis Bacon's ideas pp. 111-135

Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell

How history matters for student performance. lessons from the Partitions of Poland pp. 136-175

Paweł Bukowski

Do dictatorships redistribute more? pp. 176-195

Pantelis Kammas and Vassilis Sarantides

The minority ethic: Rethinking religious denominations, minority status, and educational achievement across the globe pp. 196-214

Pierre-Guillaume Méon and Ilan Tojerow

Electoral cycles in perceived corruption: International empirical evidence pp. 215-224

Niklas Potrafke

Does the recognition of indigenous territories impact household economic situations? Evidence from western Panama pp. 225-237

Gabriel Fuentes Cordoba

Sorting, school performance and quality: Evidence from China pp. 238-261

Yang Song