James A. Robinson

29 catalog papers. Identity-linked publications and additional name matches are distinguished below.

ORCID: 0000-0002-8028-0393

U of Chicago and Institute of African Studies, U of Nigeria at Nsukka

Publications

• Nobel Lecture: Paths to the Periphery — American Economic Review 2025
• The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2021
• Trust in State and Nonstate Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan — Journal of Political Economy 2020
• Segmentary Lineage Organization and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa — Econometrica 2020
• Democracy Does Cause Growth — Journal of Political Economy 2019
• Keeping It in the Family: Lineage Organization and the Scope of Trust in Sub-Saharan Africa — American Economic Review 2017
• The Evolution of Culture and Institutions: Evidence From the Kuba Kingdom — Econometrica 2017
• Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World — Journal of Political Economy 2017
• State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century — American Economic Review 2016
• Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) — American Economic Review 2015
• State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach — American Economic Review 2015
• Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone — Journal of Political Economy 2014
• Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? — The Review of Economic Studies 2013
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply — American Economic Review 2012
• Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2011
• The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution — American Economic Review 2011
• The Real Swing Voter's Curse — American Economic Review 2009
• Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions — American Economic Review 2008
• Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile — American Economic Review 2008
• Income and Democracy — American Economic Review 2008
• De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence — American Economic Review 2006
• From Education to Democracy? — American Economic Review 2005
• The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth — American Economic Review 2005
• Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2002
• The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation — American Economic Review 2001
• A Theory of Political Transitions — American Economic Review 2001
• Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development — American Economic Review 2000
• Is Child Labor Inefficient? — Journal of Political Economy 2000
• Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective — The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2000