Future technologies and systemic innovation are critical for the profound transformation the
food system needs. These innovations range from food production, land use and emissions …

Triple difference has become a widely used estimator in empirical work. A close reading of
articles in top economics journals reveals that the use of the estimator to a large extent rests …

The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

This article examines the historical impact of railroads on the US economy, with a focus on
quantifying the aggregate impact on the agricultural sector in 1890. Expansion of the …

The global expansion of urban slums poses questions for economic research as well as
problems for policymakers. We provide evidence that the type of poverty observed in …

We study the long-run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs
in US history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were …

Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not
economically, not militarily, and not technologically.... The evidence he assembles should be …

We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to
reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to …

The standard neoclassical model of economics is incapable of explaining why one form of
organization arises over another. It is a model where transaction costs are implicitly …

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing
literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It …