Journal of Economic Growth

1996 - 2026

Current editor(s): Oded Galor

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Historical social contracts and their legacy: a disaggregated analysis of the medieval republics pp. 485-526: Paolo Buonanno, Matteo Cervellati, S. Lazzaroni and Giovanni 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

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

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

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

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

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

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: Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet

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

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