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2026:
Balietti, A. Budjan, A., Eymess, T., Soldà, A. Strategic Ignorance and the Perceived Efficacy of Taking Action. The Economic Journal, forthcoming.
Bluhm, R., Lessmann, C., Schaudt, P. The political geography of cities. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.
Budjan, A., Pape, U., Ralston, L. Broken Promises – Evaluating an Incomplete Startup Business Program. The World Bank Economic Review, forthcoming.
2025:
Bluhm, R., Dreher, A., Fuchs, A., Parks, B., Strange, A., Tierney, M. (2025). Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries. Journal of Urban Economics 145, 103730.
Fehr, D., Vollmann, M. (2025). Misperceiving Economic Success: Experimental Evidence on Meritocratic Beliefs and Inequality Acceptance, Journal of Economic Inequality 23, 835-855.
Franck, R., Aidt, T. S. (2025). Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights. A Political Economy Analysis of the Great Reform Act of 1832. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, forthcoming.
2024:
Bursztyn, L., Cantoni, D., Funk, P., Schönenberger, F., Yuchtman, N. (2024) Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout: Evidence from Swiss Referenda, Journal of the European Economic Association 22, 876–914.
Butler, J., Fehr, D. (2024). The Causal Effect of Cultural Identity on Cooperation. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 221, 134-147.
Fehr, D., Mollerstrom, J., Perez-Truglia, R. (2024). Listen to Her: Gender Differences in Information Diffusion within the Household. Journal of Public Economics 239, 105213.
Fehr, D., Müller, D., Preuss, M. (2024). Social Mobility Perceptions and Inequality Acceptance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 221, 366-384.
Franck, R. (2024). Labor Scarcity, Technology Adoption and Innovation: Evidence from the Cholera Pandemics in 19th Century France, Journal of Economic Growth 29 (4), 543–583.
2023:
Düben, C., Krause, M. (2023). The Emperor's Geography - City Locations, Nature and Institutional Optimisation. Economic Journal 133, 1067–1105.
Franck, R. (2023). The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from 19th Century France. Journal of Population Economics 36 (4), 2007-2023.
2022:
Bluhm, R., Burney, J., Benz, S., Hemes, K., Levy, M., Polonik, P., Ricke, K., Sanford, L. (2022). Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s COVID-19 economic shutdown. Nature Sustainability 5.
Bluhm, R., Krause, M. (2022). Top lights: Bright cities and their contribution to economic development. Journal of Development Economics 157.
Bluhm, R., McCord, G. (2022). What can we learn from nighttime lights for small geographies? Measurement errors and heterogeneous elasticities. Remote Sensing 14.
Fehr, D., Fink, G., Jack, K. (2022). Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity. Journal of Political Economy 130.
Fehr, D., Mollerstrom, J., Perez-Truglia, R. (2022). Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 14.
Franck, R., Galor, O. (2022). Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization. Economic Journal 132 (642), 618-643.