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The following papers are in .pdf format, unless otherwise specified. Giorgio Topa acknowledges financial support from the NSF (grant SES-0080826) and from the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at NYU.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  1. “Religious Intermarriage and Socialization in the U.S.”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU) and Thierry Verdier (DELTA, CEPR), Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming; (Tables and Figures)
  2. “Empirical Models of Cultural Transmission”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU), Journal of the European Economic Association, Papers and Proceedings, forthcoming.
  3. “Identification of Local Interaction Models with Imperfect Location Data”, with Timothy G. Conley (GSB, University of Chicago), Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.
  4. “Does Microcredit Reach the Poor and Vulnerable? Evidence From Northern Bangladesh”, with Ashok S. Rai (CID, Harvard University) and Sajeda Amin (Population Council, New York), Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 70, February 2003, 59-82.
  5. “Socio-Economic Distance and Spatial Patterns in Unemployment”, with Timothy G. Conley (GSB, University of Chicago), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 17, 2002, 303-327.
  6. “Social Interactions, Local Spillovers and Unemployment”, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 68 (2), April 2001, 261-295.

WORKING PAPERS

  1. “Estimating Dynamic Local Interactions Models”, with Timothy G. Conley (GSB, Chicago) – invited paper for the Journal of Econometrics.
  2. “Dynamic Properties of Local Interactions Models”, with Timothy G. Conley (GSB, Chicago) – invited chapter for a volume on The Economy as an Evolving Complex System III, edited by Lawrence Blume and Steven Durlauf.
  3. “Cooperation as a Transmitted Cultural Trait”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU) and Thierry Verdier (DELTA, CEPR), September 2002, second round at Rationality and Society.
  4. “Cultural Transmission, Socialization, and the Dynamics of N-Trait Distributions”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU) and Thierry Verdier (DELTA, CEPR), January 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. “Referrals in the Marriage Market”, with Andrew Foster (Brown).
  2. “Place of Work and Place of Residence: Detecting Informal Hiring Networks via Spatial Clustering”, with Patrick Bayer (Yale) and Steve Ross (U. Conn.).
  3. “The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU) and Andrea Moro (Minnesota).
  4.  “Wage Variability and Discrimination”, with J.P. Benoit (NYU) and Raquel Fernandez (NYU).
  5. “Early Christians in the Roman Empire: Models of ‘Miracolous’ Growth”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU).
  6. “The Spatial Distribution of Income and Unemployment in Australia”, with Frank Vella (European University Institute, Florence, Italy).
  7. “The Assimilation of American Jews: Marriage, Fertility and Intergenerational Transmission”, with Alberto Bisin (NYU) – invited paper for a volume on The Economics of Judaism and Jewish Human Capital, edited by Carmel U. Chiswick and Tikva Lecker.

 

Last updated: October 24, 2003.