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Patrick A. Testa

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First Name:Patrick
Middle Name:A.
Last Name:Testa
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RePEc Short-ID:pte383
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http://patrickatesta.com

Affiliation

Department of Economics
Tulane University

New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)
http://econ.tulane.edu/
RePEc:edi:detulus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Patrick A. Testa & Jhacova A. Williams, 2025. "Political Foundations of Racial Violence in the Post-Reconstruction South," NBER Working Papers 34004, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Patrick A. Testa, 2025. "Elections and Political Investment," NBER Working Papers 34585, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Bazzi, Samuel & Ferrara, Andreas & Fiszbein, Martin & Pearson, Thomas & Testa, Patrick, 2023. "The Confederate Diaspora," CEPR Discussion Papers 18200, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  4. Stergios Skaperdas & Patrick A. Testa, 2023. "National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development," CESifo Working Paper Series 10358, CESifo.
  5. Bazzi, Samuel & Ferrara, Andreas & Fiszbein, Martin & Pearson, Thomas & Testa, Patrick, 2022. "The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right," CEPR Discussion Papers 16739, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  6. Ferrara, Andreas & Testa, Patrick A. & Zhou, Liyang, 2021. "New Area- and Population-based Geographic Crosswalks for U.S. Counties and Congressional Districts, 1790-2020," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 588, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
  7. Ferrara, Andreas & Testa, Patrick A., 2020. "Resource Blessing? Oil, Risk, and Religious Communities as Social Insurance in the U.S. South," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 513, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

Articles

  1. Ferrara, Andreas & Testa, Patrick A., 2023. "Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 83(3), pages 786-832, September.
  2. Samuel Bazzi & Andreas Ferrara & Martin Fiszbein & Thomas Pearson & Patrick A Testa, 2023. "The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 138(3), pages 1577-1647.
  3. Samuel Bazzi & Andreas Ferrara & Martin Fiszbein & Thomas Pearson & Patrick A. Testa, 2022. "Sundown Towns and Racial Exclusion: The Southern White Diaspora and the "Great Retreat"," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 112, pages 234-238, May.
  4. Testa, Patrick A., 2021. "Shocks and the spatial distribution of economic activity: The role of institutions," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 791-810.
  5. Patrick A Testa, 2021. "The Economic Legacy of Expulsion: Lessons from Post-War Czechoslovakia," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 131(637), pages 2233-2271.
  6. Testa, Patrick A., 2018. "Education and propaganda: Tradeoffs to public education provision in nondemocracies," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 66-81.

Citations

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Working papers

  1. Bazzi, Samuel & Ferrara, Andreas & Fiszbein, Martin & Pearson, Thomas & Testa, Patrick, 2023. "The Confederate Diaspora," CEPR Discussion Papers 18200, Centre for Economic Policy Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Skaperdas, Stergios & Testa, Patrick A., 2025. "National identity, public goods, and modern economic development," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(2), pages 412-432.
    2. Elkhateeb, Yasmine & Turati, Riccardo & Valette, Jérôme, 2025. "Immigration, Identity Choices, and Cultural Diversity," IZA Discussion Papers 18261, IZA Network @ LISER.
    3. Taylor, Alexander N., 2025. "Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).

  2. Bazzi, Samuel & Ferrara, Andreas & Fiszbein, Martin & Pearson, Thomas & Testa, Patrick, 2022. "The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right," CEPR Discussion Papers 16739, Centre for Economic Policy Research.

    Cited by:

    1. Jurado, Ignacio & Serrano-Serrat, Josep, 2026. "Immigrants Confronting Immigration: Political Reactions to Culturally Distant Outgroups," SocArXiv mwqhr_v1, Center for Open Science.
    2. Philipp Jaschke & Sulin Sardoschau & Marco Tabellini, 2023. "Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 384, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
    3. Hong Li & Jiayi Liao, 2025. "Cultural Diversity and Mass Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China Household Finance Survey and Dialect Data," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 16(6), pages 17438-17470, December.
    4. López-Peceño, Alejandro & Grau-Vilalta, Pau & Dinas, Elias, 2026. "Militants in Exile: Spanish Republicans and Political Mobilization in France," SocArXiv q4cyu_v1, Center for Open Science.
    5. Beach, Brian & Hanlon, W. Walker, 2023. "Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).
    6. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde & Carlos Sanz, 2024. "Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior:Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment," PIER Working Paper Archive 24-014, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania.
    7. Leticia Abad & Noel Maurer, 2025. "The long shadow of history? the impact of colonial labor institutions on economic development in Peru," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 30(4), pages 521-565, December.
    8. Stefano DellaVigna & Guido Imbens & Woojin Kim & David M. Ritzwoller, 2025. "Using Multiple Outcomes to Adjust Standard Errors for Spatial Correlation," Papers 2504.13295, arXiv.org.
    9. Skaperdas, Stergios & Testa, Patrick A., 2025. "National identity, public goods, and modern economic development," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(2), pages 412-432.
    10. Johan Fourie & Calumet Links, 2026. "Demographic Pressure, Emancipation and Selection into the Great Trek," Working Papers 06/2026, Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics.
    11. Taylor, Alexander N., 2025. "Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).

  3. Ferrara, Andreas & Testa, Patrick A. & Zhou, Liyang, 2021. "New Area- and Population-based Geographic Crosswalks for U.S. Counties and Congressional Districts, 1790-2020," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 588, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).

    Cited by:

    1. Eric C. Edwards & Walter N. Thurman, 2022. "The Economics of Climatic Adaptation: Agricultural Drainage in the United States," NBER Chapters, in: American Agriculture, Water Resources, and Climate Change, pages 29-51, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Carolina Arteaga & Victoria Barone, 2023. "Democracy and The Opioid Epidemic," Working Papers tecipa-765, University of Toronto, Department of Economics.
    3. Taylor, Alexander N., 2025. "Monumental effects: Confederate monuments in the Post-Reconstruction South," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).

Articles

  1. Ferrara, Andreas & Testa, Patrick A., 2023. "Churches as Social Insurance: Oil Risk and Religion in the U.S. South," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 83(3), pages 786-832, September.

    Cited by:

    1. Ogasawara, Kota, 2026. "Risk-coping behaviors in metropolis: Evidence from working-class households in Prewar Tokyo," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).
    2. Petach, Luke, 2025. "Property Rights and Violence: Evidence from the End of the American West," GLO Discussion Paper Series 1672, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

  2. Samuel Bazzi & Andreas Ferrara & Martin Fiszbein & Thomas Pearson & Patrick A Testa, 2023. "The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 138(3), pages 1577-1647.
    See citations under working paper version above.
  3. Testa, Patrick A., 2021. "Shocks and the spatial distribution of economic activity: The role of institutions," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 183(C), pages 791-810.

    Cited by:

    1. Jia, Junsheng & He, Xiaoyu & Zhu, Taiyu & Zhang, Eryu, 2023. "Does green finance reform promote corporate green innovation? Evidence from China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    2. Jaap W.B. Bos & Jasmin Gröschl & Martien Lamers & Runliang Li & Mark Sanders & Vincent Schippers & Jasmin Katrin Gröschl, 2022. "How Do Institutions Affect the Impact of Natural Disasters?," CESifo Working Paper Series 10174, CESifo.
    3. Marcos Sanso-Navarro & Guillermo Peña, 2023. "Long-run effects of floods at municipality level in Spain," French Stata Users' Group Meetings 2023 29, Stata Users Group.
    4. Koyama, Mark, 2022. "Introduction to the special issue on culture, institutions, and religion in economic history," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 201(C), pages 105-114.
    5. Wei Wang & Haibo Wang & Wendy Wang & Martin Enilov, 2024. "Interconnected Markets: Exploring the Dynamic Relationship Between BRICS Stock Markets and Cryptocurrency," Papers 2406.07641, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2025.

  4. Patrick A Testa, 2021. "The Economic Legacy of Expulsion: Lessons from Post-War Czechoslovakia," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 131(637), pages 2233-2271.

    Cited by:

    1. Bohnet, Lara & Peralta, Susana & Pereira dos Santos, João, 2022. "Cousins from Overseas: The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock," IZA Discussion Papers 15595, IZA Network @ LISER.
    2. Jakub Grossmann & Stepan Jurajda, 2023. "Voting under Debtor Distress," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp744, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    3. Štěpán Mikula & Mariola Pytliková, 2020. "Air Pollution & Migration: Exploiting a Natural Experiment from the Czech Republic," EconPol Working Paper 43, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    4. Sascha O. Becker, 2022. "Forced Displacement in History: Some Recent Research," CESifo Working Paper Series 9604, CESifo.
    5. Mikula, Stepan & Reggiani, Tommaso G. & Sabatini, Fabio, 2025. "The Long-Term Impact of Church Activity on Social Capital: Lessons from Post-War Czechoslovakia," IZA Discussion Papers 17981, IZA Network @ LISER.
    6. Bohnet, Lara & Peralta, Susana & Pereira dos Santos, João, 2025. "Cousins from overseas: How the existing workforce adapts to a massive forced return migration shock," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
    7. Štěpán Mikula & Tommaso Reggiani & Fabio Sabatini, 2023. "The long-term impact of religion on social capital: lessons from post-war Czechoslovakia," MUNI ECON Working Papers 2023-03, Masaryk University.
    8. Gerhard Toews & Pierre-Louis Vezina, 2020. "Enemies of the people," Working Papers w0279, New Economic School (NES).
    9. Jakub Grossmann & Stepan Jurajda & Felix Roesel, 2021. "Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-war Czechoslovakia," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp683, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
    10. Borbely, Daniel & Mckenzie, Ross, 2024. "Forced migration and local economic development: Evidence from postwar Hungary," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 171(C).
    11. Lucie Coufalová & Štěpán Mikula & Michal Ševčík, 2023. "Homophily in voting behavior: Evidence from preferential voting," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 76(2), pages 281-300, May.
    12. Aleksandar Keseljevic & Stefan Nikolic & Rok Spruk, 2025. "Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War and Economic Growth: Region-Level Evidence from former Yugoslavia," Papers 2505.02431, arXiv.org.
    13. Cemal Eren Arbatlı & Gunes Gokmen, 2023. "Human capital transfers and sub-national development: Armenian and Greek legacy in post-expulsion Turkey," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 28(1), pages 1-43, March.

  5. Testa, Patrick A., 2018. "Education and propaganda: Tradeoffs to public education provision in nondemocracies," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 160(C), pages 66-81.

    Cited by:

    1. Boucekkine, Raouf & Desbordes, Rodolphe & Melindi-Ghidi, Paolo, 2026. "The defanging effect of education and autocratic survival," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 200(C).
    2. Gebremedhin, Abrehet, 2026. "Mass demands, elite strategies: Mobilization and indoctrination in expanding secondary education in the global South," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 120(C).
    3. Jean-Paul Carvalho & Mark Koyama & Cole Williams, 2022. "Resisting Education," Economics Series Working Papers 982, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.
    4. Palma, Nuno & Reis, Jaime, 2021. "Can autocracy promote literacy? Evidence from a cultural alignment success story," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 186(C), pages 412-436.
    5. Samuel Bazzi & Masyhur Hilmy & Benjamin Marx, 2020. "Religion, Education, and Development," Working Papers hal-03873758, HAL.
    6. Stergios Skaperdas & Patrick A. Testa, 2023. "National Identity, Public Goods, and Modern Economic Development," CESifo Working Paper Series 10358, CESifo.
    7. Bai, Yu & Li, Yanjun, 2020. "Good bye Chiang Kai-shek? The long-lasting effects of education under the authoritarian regime in Taiwan," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).
    8. Han, Jiajun & Zhang, Yuan, 2025. "Education and tolerance towards Homosexuality—Evidence from China," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).

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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (7) 2020-10-26 2021-12-20 2022-01-10 2023-07-17 2024-04-01 2025-08-11 2026-01-12. Author is listed
  2. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (6) 2021-12-20 2022-01-10 2023-07-17 2024-04-01 2025-08-11 2026-01-12. Author is listed
  3. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (3) 2021-12-20 2025-08-11 2026-01-12. Author is listed
  4. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (3) 2021-12-20 2025-08-11 2026-01-12. Author is listed
  5. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (2) 2022-01-10 2024-04-01. Author is listed
  6. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (2) 2021-12-20 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  7. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (2) 2021-12-20 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  8. NEP-ENE: Energy Economics (1) 2020-10-26
  9. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (1) 2020-10-26
  10. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2023-07-17

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