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Robin Burgess

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First Name:Robin
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Last Name:Burgess
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RePEc Short-ID:pbu12
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http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/rburgess/
Department of Economics London School of Economics Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE
(0207) 955 6676
Terminal Degree:1998 Department of Economics; Oxford University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(90%) Economics Department
London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom
http://econ.lse.ac.uk/
RePEc:edi:edlseuk (more details at EDIRC)

(6%) Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)
London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom
http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/
RePEc:edi:stlseuk (more details at EDIRC)

(4%) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom
http://www.cepr.org/
RePEc:edi:cebruuk (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Oriana Bandiera & Vittorio Bassi & Robin Burgess & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman & Anna Vitali, 2023. "The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda," NBER Working Papers 31570, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Clare A. Balboni & Aaron Berman & Robin Burgess & Benjamin A. Olken, 2023. "The Economics of Tropical Deforestation," NBER Working Papers 31410, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Timothy J. Besley & Robin Burgess & Adnan Khan & Guo Xu, 2021. "Bureaucracy and Development," NBER Working Papers 29163, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Clare A. Balboni & Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Maitreesh Ghatak & Anton Heil, 2021. "Why do people stay poor?," NBER Working Papers 29340, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Robin Burgess & Francisco J.M. Costa & Benjamin A. Olken, 2018. "Wilderness Conservation and the Reach of the State: Evidence from National Borders in the Amazon," NBER Working Papers 24861, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Guo Xu & Marianne Bertrand & Robin Burgess, 2018. "Social Proximity and Bureaucrat Performance: Evidence from India," NBER Working Papers 25389, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Oriana Bandiera & Niklas Buehren & Robin Burgess & Markus Goldstein & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2014. "Women's empowerment in action: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Africa," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-30, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
  8. Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Narayan Das & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2013. "Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 043, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  9. Robin Burgess & Remi Jedwab & Edward Miguel & Ameet Morjaria & Gerard Padro i Miquel, 2013. "The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 045, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  10. Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2012. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 037, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  11. Burgess, Robin & Donaldson, Dave, 2012. "Can openness to trade reduce income volatility? Evidence from colonial India's famine era," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 54255, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  12. Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul, 2009. "Community Networks and PovertyReductionProgrammes: Evidence from Bangladesh," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 015, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  13. Philippe Aghion & Robin Burgess & Stephen Redding & Fabrizio Zilibotti, 2006. "The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India," CEP Discussion Papers dp0728, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
  14. Zilibotti, Fabrizio & Redding, Stephen & Burgess, Robin & Aghion, Philippe, 2005. "Entry Liberalization and Inequality in Industrial Performance," Scholarly Articles 4481508, Harvard University Department of Economics.
  15. Burgess, Robin & Venables, Anthony J., 2004. "Toward a microeconomics of growth," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3257, The World Bank.
  16. F. Zilibotti & P. Aghion & R. Burgess, 2004. "The Unequal Effects of Trade Liberalization: Theory and Evidence from India," 2004 Meeting Papers 40, Society for Economic Dynamics.
  17. Robin Burgess & Rohini Pande, 2004. "Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment," The Centre for Market and Public Organisation 04/104, The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK.
  18. Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess & Imran Rasul, 2003. "Benchmarking government provision of social safety nets," Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes 27870, The World Bank.
  19. Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess, 2002. "Can Labour Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India," STICERD - Development Economics Papers - From 2008 this series has been superseded by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers 33, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  20. Besley, Timothy & Burgess, Robin & Pratt, Andrea, 2002. "Mass media and political accountability," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 35988, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  21. Robin Burgess & Juzhong Zhuang, 2000. "Modernisation and Son Preference," STICERD - Development Economics Papers - From 2008 this series has been superseded by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers 29, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  22. Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess, 2000. "The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India," STICERD - Development Economics Papers - From 2008 this series has been superseded by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers 28, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  23. Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess, 1998. "Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India," STICERD - Development Economics Papers - From 2008 this series has been superseded by Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers 13, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
  24. Ramses H. Abul Naga & Robin Burgess, 1997. "Prediction and Determination of Household Permanent Income," STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers 32, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.

Articles

  1. Robin Burgess & Remi Jedwab & Edward Miguel & Ameet Morjaria & Gerard Padró i Miquel, 2015. "The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 105(6), pages 1817-1851, June.
  2. Robin Burgess & Matthew Hansen & Benjamin A. Olken & Peter Potapov & Stefanie Sieber, 2012. "The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 127(4), pages 1707-1754.
  3. Robin Burgess & Dave Donaldson, 2010. "Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India's Famine Era," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 100(2), pages 449-453, May.
  4. Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Markus Goldstein & Selim Gulesci & Imran Rasul & Munshi Sulaiman, 2010. "Intentions to Participate in Adolescent Training Programs: Evidence from Uganda," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 8(2-3), pages 548-560, 04-05.
  5. Philippe Aghion & Robin Burgess & Stephen J. Redding & Fabrizio Zilibotti, 2008. "The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 98(4), pages 1397-1412, September.
  6. Robin Burgess & Rohini Pande & Grace Wong, 2005. "Banking for the Poor: Evidence From India," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 3(2-3), pages 268-278, 04/05.
  7. Philippe Aghion & Robin Burgess & Stephen Redding & Fabrizio Zilibotti, 2005. "Entry Liberalization and Inequality in Industrial Performance," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 3(2-3), pages 291-302, 04/05.
  8. Robin Burgess & Rohini Pande, 2005. "Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(3), pages 780-795, June.
  9. Timothy Besley & Robin Burgess, 2003. "Halving Global Poverty," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 17(3), pages 3-22, Summer.
  10. Besley, Timothy & Burgess, Robin, 2001. "Political agency, government responsiveness and the role of the media," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(4-6), pages 629-640, May.
  11. Robin Burgess & Stephen Howes & Nicholas Stern, 1995. "Value-added tax options for India," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 2(1), pages 109-141, February.
  12. Aghion, Philippe & Blanchard, Olivier & Burgess, Robin, 1994. "The behaviour of state firms in eastern Europe, pre-privatisation," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 38(6), pages 1327-1349, June.
  13. Burgess, Robin & Stern, Nicholas, 1993. "Taxation and Development," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 31(2), pages 762-830, June.

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NEP Fields

NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 25 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-DEV: Development (11) 2003-03-14 2003-10-28 2004-08-16 2006-02-19 2006-02-26 2006-08-19 2008-02-09 2013-05-19 2014-11-28 2015-02-05 2015-09-26. Author is listed
  2. NEP-CWA: Central and Western Asia (6) 2004-08-16 2006-02-19 2006-02-26 2006-08-19 2008-02-09 2021-10-25. Author is listed
  3. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (6) 2011-09-22 2012-07-23 2012-09-09 2013-04-06 2018-08-27 2023-08-14. Author is listed
  4. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (6) 2011-09-22 2012-07-23 2012-09-09 2013-04-06 2013-09-26 2015-09-26. Author is listed
  5. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (4) 2003-10-28 2004-02-29 2004-08-16 2013-05-19
  6. NEP-AFR: Africa (3) 2013-09-26 2014-11-28 2015-09-26
  7. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (3) 2012-09-09 2013-04-06 2023-08-14
  8. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (3) 2006-02-26 2013-09-26 2015-09-26
  9. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (3) 2003-10-28 2006-08-19 2023-09-18
  10. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (3) 2011-09-22 2012-07-23 2013-04-06
  11. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (2) 2013-05-19 2015-02-05
  12. NEP-REG: Regulation (2) 2006-08-19 2008-02-09
  13. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (2) 2013-09-26 2015-09-26
  14. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (2) 2015-09-26 2019-01-28
  15. NEP-BIG: Big Data (1) 2018-08-27
  16. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 2013-09-26
  17. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (1) 2006-08-19
  18. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (1) 2013-09-26
  19. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2011-09-22
  20. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (1) 2023-09-18
  21. NEP-FDG: Financial Development and Growth (1) 2021-10-25
  22. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2023-09-18
  23. NEP-ISF: Islamic Finance (1) 2021-08-30
  24. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (1) 2021-10-25
  25. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (1) 2013-05-19
  26. NEP-RES: Resource Economics (1) 2012-09-09

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