Journal of Economic Growth

1996 - 2026

Current editor(s): Oded Galor

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Volume 19, issue 4, 2014

The role of lactase persistence in precolonial development pp. 369-406

Justin Cook

The two sides of envy pp. 407-438

Boris Gershman

Asia’s little divergence: state capacity in China and Japan before 1850 pp. 439-470

Tuan-Hwee Sng and Chiaki Moriguchi

Volume 19, issue 3, 2014

Growth in regions pp. 259-309

Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez De Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

Africa is on time pp. 311-338

Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization: Global analysis at the grid cell level pp. 339-368

Mesbah Motamed, Raymond Florax and William Masters

Volume 19, issue 2, 2014

The democratic transition pp. 141-181

Fabrice Murtin and Romain Wacziarg

Sequential R&D and blocking patents in the dynamics of growth pp. 183-219

Guido Cozzi and Silvia Galli

Violence and economic activity: evidence from African American patents, 1870–1940 pp. 221-257

Lisa Cook

Volume 19, issue 1, 2014

Catch-up and fall-back through innovation and imitation pp. 1-35

Jess Benhabib, Jesse Perla and Christopher Tonetti

Women’s rights and development pp. 37-80

Raquel Fernández

Inequality and growth: the neglected time dimension pp. 81-104

Daniel Halter, Manuel Oechslin and Josef Zweimüller

Malthus in cointegration space: evidence of a post-Malthusian pre-industrial England pp. 105-140

Niels Møller and Paul Sharp

Volume 18, issue 4, 2013

How important are human capital, physical capital and total factor productivity for determining state economic growth in the United States, 1840–2000? pp. 319-371

Chad Turner, Robert Tamura and Sean Mulholland

Luddites, the industrial revolution, and the demographic transition pp. 373-409

Kevin O’Rourke, Ahmed Rahman and Alan Taylor

The past and future of knowledge-based growth pp. 411-437

Holger Strulik, Klaus Prettner and Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

Volume 18, issue 3, 2013

Seeds of distrust: conflict in Uganda pp. 217-252

Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig and Fabrizio Zilibotti

Can specific policy indicators identify reform priorities? pp. 253-283

Aart Kraay and Norikazu Tawara

Legacies of violence: trust and market development pp. 285-318

Alessandra Cassar, Pauline Grosjean and Sam Whitt

Volume 18, issue 2, 2013

Parasitical cultures? The cultural origins of institutions and development pp. 109-136

Robbert Maseland

Federal regulation and aggregate economic growth pp. 137-177

John Dawson and John Seater

Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development pp. 179-215

Raphael Auer

Volume 18, issue 1, 2013

The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security pp. 1-32

Elizabeth Caucutt, Thomas Cooley and Nezih Guner

Basic research, openness, and convergence pp. 33-68

Hans Gersbach, Maik Schneider and Olivier Schneller

Measuring human development: a stochastic dominance approach pp. 69-108

Mehmet Pinar, Thanasis Stengos and Nikolas Topaloglou

Volume 17, issue 4, 2012

Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation pp. 267-321

Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessmann

The economic value of virtue pp. 323-356

Fabio Mariani

The long-run determinants of fertility: one century of demographic change 1900–1999 pp. 357-385

Dierk Herzer, Holger Strulik and Sebastian Vollmer

Volume 17, issue 3, 2012

Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance pp. 171-203

Mark Dincecco and Jose Prado

The evolution of markets and the revolution of industry: a unified theory of growth pp. 205-234

Klaus Desmet and Stephen Parente

Investing in public investment: an index of public investment efficiency pp. 235-266

Era Dabla-Norris, Jim Brumby, Annette Kyobe, Zac Mills and Chris Papageorgiou

Volume 17, issue 2, 2012

The roots of ethnic diversity pp. 71-102

Pelle Ahlerup and Ola Olsson

Markets and jungles pp. 103-141

Thomas Gall and Paolo Masella

Evaluating the effects of entry regulations and firing costs on international income differences pp. 143-170

Hernan Moscoso Boedo and Toshihiko Mukoyama

Volume 17, issue 1, 2012

Do brain drain and poverty result from coordination failures? pp. 1-26

David de la Croix and Frédéric Docquier

History’s a curse: leapfrogging, growth breaks and growth reversals under international borrowing without commitment pp. 27-47

Raouf Boucekkine and Patrick Pintus

A polarization-cohesion perspective on cross-country convergence pp. 49-69

Gordon Anderson, Oliver Linton and Teng Wah Leo

Volume 16, issue 4, 2011

On the link between volatility and growth pp. 285-308

Olaf Posch and Klaus Wälde

The network structure of economic output pp. 309-342

Ricardo Hausmann and Cesar Hidalgo

The agricultural basis of comparative development pp. 343-370

Dietrich Vollrath

Volume 16, issue 3, 2011

The stability and breakup of nations: a quantitative analysis pp. 183-213

Klaus Desmet, Michel Breton, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín and Shlomo Weber

A contribution to the theory and empirics of Schumpeterian growth with worldwide interactions pp. 215-255

Cem Ertur and Wilfried Koch

Optimal research and development and the cost of business cycles pp. 257-283

Galo Nuño Barrau

Volume 16, issue 2, 2011

Life expectancy and economic growth: the role of the demographic transition pp. 99-133

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

Innovations, patent races and endogenous growth pp. 135-156

Joseph Zeira

Leisure goods, education attainment and fertility choice pp. 157-181

Ragchaasuren Galindev

Volume 16, issue 1, 2011

Flows of people, flows of ideas, and the inequality of nations pp. 1-32

Thomas Andersen and Carl-Johan Dalgaard

Tariffs and economic growth in the first era of globalization pp. 33-70

Moritz Schularick and Solomos Solomou

Parental nurturing and adverse effects of redistribution pp. 71-98

Debasis Bandyopadhyay and Xueli Tang

Volume 15, issue 4, 2010

Four centuries of British economic growth: the roles of technology and population pp. 263-290

Jakob Madsen, James Ang and Rajabrata Banerjee

The role of mortality in the transmission of knowledge pp. 291-321

Michael Bar and Oksana Leukhina

The Galor–Weil gender-gap model revisited: from home to market pp. 323-351

Masako Kimura and Daishin Yasui

Volume 15, issue 3, 2010

The trade-off between fertility and education: evidence from before the demographic transition pp. 177-204

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann

Cross-country variation in educational attainment: structural change or within-industry skill upgrading? pp. 205-233

Lutz Hendricks

Pacifying monogamy pp. 235-262

Nils-Petter Lagerlof

Volume 15, issue 2, 2010

The power of the family pp. 93-125

Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

The Green Solow model pp. 127-153

William Brock and M. Scott Taylor

Wealth inequality and credit markets: evidence from three industrialized countries pp. 155-176

Markus Brückner, Kerstin Gerling and Hans Grüner

Volume 15, issue 1, 2010

Do international labor standards contribute to the persistence of the child-labor problem? pp. 1-31

Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti

A macroeconomic perspective on Knowledge Management pp. 33-63

Mathias Thoenig and Thierry Verdier

Mortality change, the uncertainty effect, and retirement pp. 65-91

Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and David Weil