Journal of Economic Growth

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Oded Galor

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Volume 30, issue 1, 2025

Scars of pandemics from lost schooling and experience: aggregate implications and gender differences through the lens of COVID-19 pp. 1-47

Paul Romer, Roberto Samaniego, Remi Jedwab and Asif M. Islam

Has the real rate of return “depreciated”? pp. 49-85

Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Morten Olsen

Religion and persecution pp. 87-159

Umair Khalil and Laura Panza

The long-term implications of destruction during the Second World War on private wealth in Germany pp. 161-235

Christoph Halbmeier and Carsten Schröder

Volume 29, issue 4, 2024

Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800) pp. 469-514

David de la Croix and Marc Goñi

Human capital, self-esteem, and income inequality pp. 515-541

Mark Gradstein and Luigi Ventura

Labor scarcity, technology adoption and innovation: evidence from the cholera pandemics in 19th century France pp. 543-583

Raphael Franck

Volume 29, issue 3, 2024

Educational quality and disparities in income and growth across countries pp. 361-389

Hanol Lee and Jong-Wha Lee

On the coevolution of individualism and institutions pp. 391-432

Israel Eruchimovitch, Moti Michaeli and Assaf Sarid

Elites and health infrastructure improvements in industrializing regimes pp. 433-468

Tommy Krieger

Volume 29, issue 2, 2024

Women legislators and economic performance pp. 151-214

Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sonia Bhalotra, Brian Min and Yogesh Uppal

Automation and unemployment: help is on the way pp. 215-250

Hideki Nakamura and Joseph Zeira

Missions, fertility transition, and the reversal of fortunes: evidence from border discontinuities in the emirates of Nigeria pp. 251-325

Dozie Okoye and Roland Pongou

Social mobility and economic development pp. 327-359

Guido Neidhöfer, Matías Ciaschi, Leonardo Gasparini and Joaquín Serrano

Volume 29, issue 1, 2024

Culture, institutions and the long divergence pp. 1-40

Alberto Bisin, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror and Thierry Verdier

“Let them eat cake”: drought, peasant uprisings, and demand for institutional change in the French Revolution pp. 41-77

Maria Waldinger

Female education and social change pp. 79-119

Mathias Bühler, Leonhard Vollmer and Johannes Wimmer

Business is tense: new evidence on how language affects economic activity pp. 121-149

Francesco Campo, Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco

Volume 28, issue 4, 2023

Trade and economic growth: Does the sophistication of traded goods matter? pp. 481-524

P. Niluka S. P. Ekanayake, Jakob Madsen and Tushar Bharati

‘Getting to Denmark’: the role of agricultural elites for development pp. 525-569

Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Peter Jensen, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp and Christian Volmar Skovsgaard

Democratization, leader education and growth: firm-level evidence from Indonesia pp. 571-600

Paul Pelzl and Steven Poelhekke

Volume 28, issue 3, 2023

Men. Male-biased sex ratios and masculinity norms: evidence from Australia’s colonial past pp. 339-396

Victoria Baranov, Ralph Haas and Pauline Grosjean

The Impact of Long–Term Orientation Traits on Pandemic Fatigue Behavior: Evidence from the Columbian Exchange pp. 397-438

Sutanuka Roy, Sudhir Gupta and Rabee Tourky

Religion, rulers, and conflict pp. 439-480

Metin Cosgel, Thomas J. Miceli and Sadullah Yıldırım

Volume 28, issue 2, 2023

The empirics of economic growth over time and across nations: a unified growth perspective pp. 173-224

Matteo Cervellati, Gerrit Meyerheim and Uwe Sunde

Islam and human capital in historical Spain pp. 225-257

Francesco Cinnirella, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo

Comparative European Institutions and the Little Divergence, 1385–1800 pp. 259-294

António Henriques and Nuno Palma

Correction to: Comparative european institutions and the little divergence, 1385–1800 pp. 295-295

António Henriques and Nuno Palma

Liquidity creation, investment, and growth pp. 297-336

Thorsten Beck, Robin Döttling, Thomas Lambert and Mathijs Dijk

Correction: Creativity over time and space pp. 337-338

Michel Serafinelli and Guido Tabellini

Volume 28, issue 1, 2023

Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey pp. 1-43

Cemal Eren Arbatli and Gunes Gokmen

The power of religion pp. 45-78

Jeanet Bentzen and Gunes Gokmen

Left-handedness and economic development pp. 79-123

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier and Luca Pensieroso

Landed elites and education provision in England: evidence from school boards, 1871-99 pp. 125-171

Marc Goñi

Volume 27, issue 4, 2022

Historical social contracts and their legacy: a disaggregated analysis of the medieval republics pp. 485-526

Paolo Buonanno, Matteo Cervellati, S. Lazzaroni and G. Prarolo

Fascistville: Mussolini’s new towns and the persistence of neo-fascism pp. 527-567

Mario Carillo

Surname distance and technology diffusion: the case of the adoption of maize in late imperial China pp. 569-607

Ying Bai and James Kai-sing Kung

Volume 27, issue 3, 2022

Private equity and growth pp. 315-363

Boyan Jovanovic, Sai Ma and Peter Rousseau

The rural exodus and the rise of Europe pp. 365-414

Thomas Baudin and Robert Stelter

How does scientific progress affect cultural changes? A digital text analysis pp. 415-452

Michela Giorcelli, Nicola Lacetera and Astrid Marinoni

State formation, social unrest and cultural distance pp. 453-483

Giampaolo Lecce, Laura Ogliari and Tommaso Orlando

Volume 27, issue 2, 2022

The economics of missionary expansion: evidence from Africa and implications for development pp. 149-192

Remi Jedwab, Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Alexander Moradi

Income, education and democracy pp. 193-233

Stephen Parente, Luis Felipe Saenz and Anna Seim

Meritocracy and the inheritance of advantage pp. 235-272

David Comerford, Sevi Rodríguez Mora and Michael Watts

Measuring intragenerational mobility using aggregate data pp. 273-314

Aart Kraay and Roy van der Weide

Volume 27, issue 1, 2022

Creativity over time and space pp. 1-43

Michel Serafinelli and Guido Tabellini

The origins of cultural divergence: evidence from Vietnam pp. 45-89

Hoang-Anh Ho, Peter Martinsson and Ola Olsson

Roots of gender equality: the persistent effect of beguinages on attitudes toward women pp. 91-148

Annalisa Frigo and Èric Roca Fernández

Volume 26, issue 4, 2021

Axis-orientation and knowledge transmission: evidence from the Bantu expansion pp. 359-384

Arthur Blouin

Do attitudes toward risk taking affect entrepreneurship? Evidence from second-generation Americans pp. 385-413

Areendam Chanda and Bulent Unel

Automation, growth, and factor shares in the era of population aging pp. 415-453

Andreas Irmen

Volume 26, issue 3, 2021

Physiological constraints and the transition to growth: implications for comparative development pp. 241-289

Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Jakob Madsen and Holger Strulik

Secular satiation pp. 291-327

Gilles Saint-Paul

Financing choice and local economic growth: evidence from Brazil pp. 329-357

Thiago Silva, Iftekhar Hasan and Benjamin Tabak

Volume 26, issue 2, 2021

Multiple steady statehood: the roles of productive and extractive capacities pp. 113-152

Nils-Petter Lagerlof

Rising inequality and trends in leisure pp. 153-185

Timo Boppart and L. Rachel Ngai

Between communism and capitalism: long-term inequality in Poland, 1892–2015 pp. 187-239

Paweł Bukowski and Filip Novokmet

Volume 26, issue 1, 2021

Disease and demographic development: the legacy of the plague pp. 1-30

Fabian Siuda and Uwe Sunde

The American System of economic growth pp. 31-75

Marvin Goodfriend and John McDermott

The European coal curse pp. 77-112

Elena Esposito and Scott F. Abramson