Journal of Economic Growth

Lena Gerling · Arzu Kibris

This paper asks how individual-level exposure to internal armed conflict shapes social capital, specifically trust in institutions and trust in people. The question matters because trust is a core …

Ariel Karlinsky · Moses Shayo

Karlinsky and Shayo ask which governments manipulate public information, in which direction, and by how much — questions that are normally intractable because the ground truth is unobservable. The …

Weizheng Lai · Lixin Colin Xu · Li Yang

Research question and motivation: How do civil wars affect long-term development, and through which institutional mechanisms? The paper studies the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) in Qing China, one of …

Hideki Nakamura · Masakatsu Nakamura · Shota Moriwaki

This paper asks a foundational question: can the economy-wide degree of automation be measured coherently from standard macroeconomic data, without relying on technology-specific proxies such as robot …

Seda Basihos

Since the mid-1990s computing revolution, advanced economies have shown a cluster of regularities — a decade-long productivity boom followed by a slowdown below trend, a sharply declining labour …