Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not J Rubin Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 332 | 2017 |
Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Reformation SO Becker, S Pfaff, J Rubin Explorations in Economic History 62, 1-25, 2016 | 219 | 2016 |
Printing and Protestants: An Empirical Test of the Role of Printing in the Reformation J Rubin Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2), 270-286, 2014 | 185* | 2014 |
Institutions, the Rise of Commerce, and the Persistence of Laws: Interest Restrictions in Islam and Christianity J Rubin Economic Journal 121 (557), 1310-1339, 2011 | 147 | 2011 |
The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire MM Coşgel, TJ Miceli, J Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (3), 357-371, 2012 | 127* | 2012 |
The paradox of power: Principal-agent problems and administrative capacity in Imperial China (and other absolutist regimes) D Ma, J Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics 47 (2), 277-294, 2019 | 110* | 2019 |
Religion in Economic History: A Survey SO Becker, J Rubin, L Woessmann The Handbook of Historical Economics, 585-639, 2021 | 107 | 2021 |
Endogenous Group Formation via Unproductive Costs J Aimone, L Iannaccone, M Makowsky, J Rubin Review of Economic Studies 80 (4), 1215-1236, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
Reading, Writing, and Religion: Institutions and Human Capital Formation L Chaudhary, J Rubin Journal of Comparative Economics 39 (1), 17-33, 2011 | 91 | 2011 |
Principal-Agent Settings with Random Shocks J Rubin, R Sheremeta Management Science 62 (4), 985-999, 2016 | 88 | 2016 |
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth M Koyama, J Rubin Polity Press, 2022 | 82 | 2022 |
An Agent‐Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution M Makowsky, J Rubin PLoS ONE 8 (11), e80380, 2013 | 78 | 2013 |
Bills of Exchange, Interest Bans, and Impersonal Exchange in Islam and Christianity J Rubin Explorations in Economic History 47 (2), 213-227, 2010 | 65 | 2010 |
Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The Tudor Roots of England’s Constitutional Governance A Greif, J Rubin Journal of Economic History, Forthcoming, 2024 | 58* | 2024 |
Multiplex network ties and the spatial diffusion of radical innovations: Martin Luther’s leadership in the early reformation SO Becker, Y Hsiao, S Pfaff, J Rubin American Sociological Review 85 (5), 857-894, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |
The Financial Power of the Powerless: Socio-Economic Status and Interest Rates under Partial Rule of Law T Kuran, J Rubin Economic Journal 128 (609), 758-796, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
A Theory of Cultural Revivals M Iyigun, J Rubin, S Avner European Economic Review 135 (103734), 2021 | 47* | 2021 |
Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence A Bisin, J Rubin, A Seror, T Verdier Journal of Economic Growth 29 (1), 1-40, 2024 | 43 | 2024 |
Advances in the Economics of Religion JP Carvalho, S Iyer, J Rubin Palgrave, 2019 | 43 | 2019 |
Loss Aversion and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff J Rubin, AS Samek, RM Sheremeta Experimental Economics 21 (2), 292-315, 2018 | 43* | 2018 |