Journal of Economic Growth

1996 - 2025

Current editor(s): Oded Galor

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Nation-building, nationalism, and $$\hbox {wars}^*$$ wars ∗ pp. 381-430: Alberto Alesina, Bryony Reich and Alessandro Riboni
Was the post-1870 fertility transition a key contributor to growth in the West in the twentieth century? pp. 431-454: Jakob Madsen, Md. Rabiul Islam and Xueli Tang
Legacies of inequality: the case of Brazil pp. 455-501: Evan Wigton-Jones

The bounty of the sea and long-run development pp. 259-295: Carl-Johan Dalgaard, Anne Sofie B. Knudsen and Pablo Selaya
The origins of the division of labor in pre-industrial times pp. 297-340: Emilio Depetris-Chauvin and Ömer Özak
Does it matter where you came from? Ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850–2010 pp. 341-380: Scott Fulford, Ivan Petkov and Fabio Schiantarelli

Growing collectivism: irrigation, group conformity and technological divergence pp. 147-193: Johannes Buggle
The health costs of ethnic distance: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa pp. 195-226: Joseph Gomes
Losing your dictator: firms during political transition pp. 227-257: Felipe González and Mounu Prem

Spatial competition, innovation and institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence pp. 1-35: Klaus Desmet, Avner Greif and Stephen Parente
The international epidemiological transition and the education gender gap pp. 37-86: Mariko Klasing and Petros Milionis
The imperial roots of global trade pp. 87-145: Gunes Gokmen, Wessel Vermeulen and Pierre-Louis Vézina

Does female empowerment promote economic development? pp. 309-343: Matthias Doepke and Michele Tertilt
Negative shocks and mass persecutions: evidence from the Black Death pp. 345-395: Remi Jedwab, Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama
Agricultural legacy and individualistic culture pp. 397-425: James Ang

Childlessness, celibacy and net fertility in pre-industrial England: the middle-class evolutionary advantage pp. 223-256: David de la Croix, Eric Schneider and Jacob Weisdorf
Growth, entrepreneurship, and risk-tolerance: a risk-income paradox pp. 257-282: Ranoua Bouchouicha and Ferdinand Vieider
Inequality and growth: industry-level evidence pp. 283-308: Lisardo Erman and Daniel Marcel Kaat

Culture: persistence and evolution pp. 117-154: Francesco Giavazzi, Ivan Petkov and Fabio Schiantarelli
Which tail matters? Inequality and growth in Brazil pp. 155-187: Stephan Litschig and Maria Lombardi
The world income distribution: the effects of international unbundling of production pp. 189-221: Sergi Basco and Martí Mestieri

Group inequality and the severity of civil conflict pp. 1-41: John D. Huber and Laura Mayoral
The rise and fall of family firms in the process of development pp. 43-78: Maria Rosaria Carillo, Vincenzo Lombardo and Alberto Zazzaro
Winning the oil lottery: the impact of natural resource extraction on growth pp. 79-115: Tiago Cavalcanti, Daniel Da Mata and Frederik Toscani

Population relatedness and cross-country idea flows: evidence from book translations pp. 367-386: Andrew Dickens
Agricultural productivity and economic development: the contribution of clover to structural transformation in Denmark pp. 387-426: Torben Schmidt, Peter Jensen and Amber Naz
Why did rich families increase their fertility? Inequality and marketization of child care pp. 427-463: Michael Bar, Moshe Hazan, Oksana Leukhina, David Weiss and Hosny Zoabi

Redistribution, inequality, and growth: new evidence pp. 259-305: Andrew Berg, Jonathan Ostry, Charalambos Tsangarides and Yorbol Yakhshilikov
High-school genetic diversity and later-life student outcomes: micro-level evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study pp. 307-339: Justin Cook and Jason Fletcher
Inequality and economic growth: the role of initial income pp. 341-366: Markus Brueckner and Daniel Lederman

Trade liberalization, democratization, and technology adoption pp. 145-173: Matteo Cervellati, Alireza Naghavi and Farid Toubal
Distance to the pre-industrial technological frontier and economic development pp. 175-221: Ömer Özak
Globalizing labor and the world economy: the role of human capital pp. 223-258: Marco Delogu, Frédéric Docquier and Joël Machado

State history and economic development: evidence from six millennia pp. 1-40: Oana Borcan, Ola Olsson and Louis Putterman
Technology and labor regulations: theory and evidence pp. 41-78: Alberto Alesina, Michele Battisti and Joseph Zeira
Geography, land inequality and regional numeracy in Europe in historical perspective pp. 79-109: Joerg Baten and Ralph Hippe
Labor productivity growth: disentangling technology and capital accumulation pp. 111-143: Michele Battisti, Massimo Del Gatto and Christopher Parmeter

Human capital and fertility in Chinese clans before modern growth pp. 351-396: Carol Shiue
Oil and ethnic inequality in Nigeria pp. 397-420: James Fenske and Igor Zurimendi
Life expectancy and education: evidence from the cardiovascular revolution pp. 421-450: Casper Hansen and Holger Strulik

British economic growth since 1270: the role of education pp. 229-272: Jakob Madsen and Fabrice Murtin
Education and religious participation: city-level evidence from Germany’s secularization period 1890–1930 pp. 273-311: Sascha Becker, Markus Nagler and Ludger Woessmann
Does European development have Roman roots? Evidence from the German Limes pp. 313-349: Fabian Wahl

The logic of hereditary rule: theory and evidence pp. 123-144: Timothy Besley and Marta Reynal-Querol
Growth discontinuities at borders pp. 145-192: Maxim L. Pinkovskiy
The role of human capital and innovation in economic development: evidence from post-Malthusian Prussia pp. 193-227: Francesco Cinnirella and Jochen Streb

The effect of aid on growth: evidence from a Quasi-experiment pp. 1-33: Sebastian Galiani, Stephen Knack, Lixin Xu and Ben Zou
Human capital and the quantity–quality trade-off during the demographic transition pp. 35-65: Alan Fernihough
Revisiting the world technology frontier: a directional distance function approach pp. 67-95: Jens Krüger
Finance and sources of growth: evidence from the U.S. states pp. 97-122: Michal Jerzmanowski