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James Alan Robinson

Global rank #658 99%

Institution: University of Chicago

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://scholar.harris.uchicago.edu/jamesrobinson/home

First Publication: 1996

Most Recent: 2017

RePEc ID: pro179 ↗

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 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Last 10 Years 0.67 0.67 0.00 0.00 4.02
All Time 15.42 6.03 4.19 0.00 78.93

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 35
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 27.77

Publications (35)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2017 The political economy of public income volatility: With an application to the resource curse Journal of Public Economics A 3
2016 State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century American Economic Review S 3
2015 State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach American Economic Review S 3
2015 Understanding Ethnic Identity in Africa: Evidence from the Implicit Association Test (IAT) American Economic Review S 4
2014 Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone Journal of Political Economy S 3
2014 Political foundations of the resource curse: A simplification and a comment Journal of Development Economics A 3
2013 Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Review of Economic Studies S 3
2013 The Political Economy of Clientelism Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 2
2012 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply American Economic Review S 3
2011 The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution American Economic Review S 4
2011 Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2009 Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis Journal of Monetary Economics A 4
2009 The Real Swing Voter's Curse American Economic Review S 2
2009 A political economy theory of the soft budget constraint European Economic Review B 2
2008 Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions American Economic Review S 2
2008 Income and Democracy American Economic Review S 4
2008 When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 4
2008 Land and Power: Theory and Evidence from Chile American Economic Review S 2
2007 Property rights and the political organization of agriculture Journal of Development Economics A 2
2006 De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence American Economic Review S 2
2006 Political foundations of the resource curse Journal of Development Economics A 3
2005 From Education to Democracy? American Economic Review S 4
2005 The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth American Economic Review S 3
2005 White elephants Journal of Public Economics A 2
2003 Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth Journal of Monetary Economics A 4
2002 Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2002 Rotten parents Journal of Public Economics A 2
2001 A Theory of Political Transitions American Economic Review S 2
2001 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation American Economic Review S 3
2001 SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS Journal of Economic History B 3
2000 Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development American Economic Review S 2
2000 Democratization or repression? European Economic Review B 2
2000 Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2000 Is Child Labor Inefficient? Journal of Political Economy S 2
1996 Rent appropriation and sustained growth Economics Letters C 1