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Remi Jedwab

Global rank #3640 95%

Institution: George Washington University

Primary Field: Urban (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://remijedwab.com

First Publication: 2012

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pje78 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 4.02 5.87 0.00 13.91
Last 10 Years 0.00 8.71 5.87 0.00 23.29
All Time 0.40 8.71 7.88 0.00 26.91

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 24
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 17.06

Publications (24)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 The employment profile of cities around the world: Consumption vs. production cities and economic development World Development B 3
2025 Outward and upward construction: A 3D analysis of the global building stock World Development B 4
2025 Estimating the spillover economic effects of foreign conflict shocks: Evidence from Boko Haram World Development B 4
2025 Scars of pandemics from lost schooling and experience: aggregate implications and gender differences through the lens of COVID-19 Journal of Economic Growth A 4
2024 Pandemics and cities: Evidence from the Black Death and the long-run Journal of Urban Economics A 3
2023 Killer cities and industrious cities? New data and evidence on 250 years of urban growth Journal of Economic Geography B 2
2023 Human Capital Accumulation at Work: Estimates for the World and Implications for Development American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 4
2022 Cities Without Skylines: Worldwide Building-Height Gaps and their Possible Determinants and Implications Journal of Urban Economics A 3
2022 Medieval cities through the lens of urban economics Regional Science and Urban Economics B 3
2022 The economics of missionary expansion: evidence from Africa and implications for development Journal of Economic Growth A 3
2022 The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 Journal of the European Economic Association A 2
2021 Christianization without economic development: Evidence from missions in Ghana Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization B 3
2021 Comparing cities in developed and developing countries: Population, land area, building height and crowding Regional Science and Urban Economics B 3
2021 Cities of workers, children or seniors? Stylized facts and possible implications for growth in a global sample of cities Regional Science and Urban Economics B 3
2021 Epidemics, pandemics, and social conflict: Lessons from the past and possible scenarios for COVID-19 World Development B 4
2019 The Urban Mortality Transition and Poor-Country Urbanization American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 2
2019 Negative shocks and mass persecutions: evidence from the Black Death Journal of Economic Growth A 3
2017 Demography, urbanization and development: Rural push, urban pull and…urban push? Journal of Urban Economics A 3
2016 Urbanization with and without industrialization Journal of Economic Growth A 3
2016 Urbanization with and without industrialization Journal of Economic Growth A 3
2016 The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2015 The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya American Economic Review S 5
2015 Urbanization without growth in historical perspective Explorations in Economic History B 2
2012 Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire Economic Development & Cultural Change B 2