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Democratic Values and Institutions - Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson, American Economic Review: Insights, 1(1): 59-76, 2019.The Violent Legacy of Conflict: Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crime, and Public Policy in Switzerland - Mathieu Couttenier, Veronica Petrencu, Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig, American Economic Review, 109(12): 4378-4425, 2019.Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance - Quoc-Anh Do, Filipe R. Campante and Bernardo Guimaraes, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(3): 298-337, 2019.Personal Liberties, Religiosity, and Effort - Joan Esteban, Gilat Levy and Laura Mayoral, European Economic Review, 120, 103320, 2019.A Politico-Economic Model of Public Expenditure and Income Taxation - Joan Esteban and Laura Mayoral, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 10(3): 479–507, 2019.Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes towards Domestic Violence - Eliana La Ferrara, Abhijit Banerjee and Victor Orozco, AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 133-137, 2019.Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization - Massimo Morelli, Adam Meirowitz, Kris Ramsay and Francesco Squintani, Journal of Political Economy, 127(1): 378-418, 2019.Earthquakes and terrorism: The long lasting effect of seismic shocks - Marta Reynal-Querol and José García-Montalvo, Journal of Comparative Economics, 47(3): 541-561, 2019.Global crises and populism: the role of Eurozone institutions - Massimo Morelli, Luigi Guiso, Helios Herrera and Tommaso Sonno, Economic Policy, 34(97): 95–139, 2019.Group inequality and the severity of civil conflict - Laura Mayoral and John D. Huber, Journal of Economic Growth, 24: 1-41, 2019.Individual Life Horizon Influences Attitudes Toward Democracy - Uwe Sunde and Marie Lechler, American Political Science Review, 113(3): 860-867, 2019.Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics - Paolo Pinotti, Alberto Alesina and Salvatore Piccolo. The Review of Economic Studies, 86(2): 457-499, forthcoming.Redistributing Income under Proportional Representation: A Correction - Massimo Morelli and Margherita Negri. Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Political Economy, 127(1): 458-462, 2019.The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV - Paolo Pinotti, Andrea Tesei and Ruben Durante. American Economic Review, 109(7): 2497-2530, 2019.Temperature extremes, global warming, and armed conflict: new insights from high resolution data - Uwe Sunde and Miriam Breckner. World Development, 123, 104624, 2019.Austerity and anarchy: Budget cuts and social unrest in Europe, 1919-2008 - Hans-Joachim Voth and Jacopo Ponticelli, Journal of Comparative Economics, 48(1): 1-19, 2020.Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Urban Agglomeration - Dominic Rohner, Ulrich Eberle, J. Vernon Henderson and Kurt Schmidheiny, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2020 .Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics - Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Oscar Barrera, Sergei Guriev and Emeric Henry, Journal of Public Economics, 182: 104123, 2020.Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers - Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Sascha Becker, Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean and Nico Voigtländer, American Economic Review, 110(5): 1430-1463, 2020.Historical Legacies and African Development - Elias Papaioannou and Stelios Michalopoulos, Journal of Economic Literature, 58(1): 53-128, 2020.Legislative Activity and Private Benefits: A Natural Experiment in New Zealand - Massimo Morelli, Moritz Osnabrügge and Matia Vannoni, Political Science Research and Methods, 8(3): 565-570, 2020.Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa – Andrea Tesei and Marco Manacorda, Econometrica, 88(2): 533-567, 2020.Measuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts: Methods and Application to US States - Massimo Morelli, Elliott Ash and Matia Vannoni, Political Analysis, 115, 2020.Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire - Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Irena Grosfeld and Seyhun Orcan Sakalli, Review ofEconomic Studies, 87(1): 289-342, 2020.The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right - Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan and Anant Sudarshan, Journal of Economic Perspectives,34(1): 145-169, 2020.The Glittering Prizes: Career Incentives and Bureaucrat Performance - Robin Burgess, Marianne Bertrand, Arunish Chawla and Guo Xu, The Review of Economic Studies, 87(2): 626–655, 2020.The Political Economy of Program Enforcement: Evidence from Brazil - Eliana La Ferrara, Fernanda Brollo and Katja Kaufmann, Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(2): 750-791, 2020.Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa - Robin Burgess, Oriana Bandiera, Niklas Buehren, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul and Munshi Sulaiman, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(1): 210-259, 2020.Historical Legacies and African Development - Elias Papaioannou and Stelios Michalopoulos, Journal of Economic Literature, 58(1): 53-128, 2020.Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers - Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Sascha Becker, Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean and Nico Voigtländer, American Economic Review, 110(5): 1430-1463, 2020.Facts, Alternative Facts, and Fact Checking in Times of Post-Truth Politics - Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Oscar Barrera, Sergei Guriev and Emeric Henry, Journal of Public Economics, 182: 104123, 2020.Ethnic Diversity and Growth: Revisiting the Evidence - Marta Reynal-Querol and José García-Montalvo, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.Fertile Ground for Conflict - Nicolas Berman, Mathieu Couttenier and Raphael Soubeyran, Journal of the European Economics Association, forthcoming.The long term impacts of grants on poverty: 9-year evidence from the Youth Opportunities Program in Uganda - Christopher Blattman, Nathan Fiala and Sebastian Martinez, American Economic Review: Insights, forthcoming.Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labour Market Experiment in Uganda - Robin Burgess, Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali, Econometrica, forthcoming.Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media - Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Annual Review of Economics, forthcoming.Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia - Ruben Enikolopov, Alexey Makarin and Maria Petrova, Econometrica, forthcoming.Violence Against Women: A Cross-cultural Analysis for Africa - Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Alesina and Benedetta Brioschi, Economica, forthcoming.Property Rights, Land Disputes and Water Scarcity: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia - Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti, Salvatore Di Falco, Gunnar Kohlin and Marcella Veronesi, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.Engineering informal institutions: Long run impacts of alternative dispute resolution on violence and property rights in Liberia - Christopher Blattman, Robert Blair and Alexandra Hartman, Journal of Politics, forthcoming.Group inequality and the severity of civil conflict - Laura Mayoral and John D. HuberMeasuring Discretion and Delegation in Legislative Texts: Methods and Application to US States - Massimo Morelli, Elliott Ash and Matia Vannoni, Political Analysis, 1-15, forthcoming.Social Media and Political Contributions: The Impact of New Technology on Political Competition - Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen and Pinar Yildirim, Management Science, forthcoming.Social Media and Political Contributions: The Impact of New Technology on Political Competition - Maria Petrova, Ananya Sen and Pinar Yildirim, Econometrica.Rage Against the Machines: Labor-Saving Technology and Unrest in Industrializing England - Hans-Joachim Voth and Bruno Caprettini, American Economic Review: Insights, forthcoming.