In this article we survey recent advances in the economic theory of cultural transmission. We
highlight three main themes on which the literature has made great progress in the last 10 …

We provide an abstract model of the interaction between culture and political institutions.
The model is designed to study the political economy of elites and civil society on the …

Since the early years of the 21st century, economists have started to look for the historical
roots of current economic outcomes. In this article, we deal with this new approach (called …

This paper compares the role of cliometrics—broadly defined to include economics, political
science, and other social sciences—before and after the" credibility revolution" of the late …

Does what you exported matter? We build a new global commodity-level export database for
the previous era of globalization and find persistence in productive capabilities proxied by …

In this paper we discuss the role of explicit formal dynamic models in our understanding of
socio-economic history. Specifically, to illustrate the methodological issue, we center our …

Macrohistorical theories of development often depict war as positively affecting the
economy. Yet these theories, and the supporting evidence, assume that war is an …

Support for climate policy depends on the public's perception of climate change costs.
Assessing the determinants of climate change attitudes contributes to explaining cross …

Quantile regression and quantile treatment effect methods are powerful econometric tools
for considering economic impacts of events or variables of interest beyond the mean. The …

A longstanding debate opposes two mechanisms by which labor coercion persists or
changes to free labor: a labor demand effect, by which the elite coerces labor when supply is …