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All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700: by David S. Jacks; Kevin H. O'Rourke; Williamson, Jeffery G.; Poor countries are more volatile than rich countries, and we know this volatility impedes their growth. We also know that commodity price volatility is a key source of those shocks. This paper...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response: by Pamuk, Şevket; Williamson, Jeffery G.; India and Britain were much bigger players in the 18th century world market for textiles than was Egypt, the Levant and the core of the Ottoman Empire, but these eastern Mediterranean regions did...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

Vanishing Third World Emigrants?: by Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffery G.; This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: February 2009 More

Practicing Peace, Living with War: Going Upriver in Colombia: by Theidon, Kimberly S.; It is disconcerting to share a hotel room with someone who needs to tell you in detail how he learned to use a machete to chop the human body up into unrecognizable chunks of flesh. Vladimiro's...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: January 2009 More

The Political Economy of Heterogeneous Development: Quantile Effects of Income and Education: by Alexander, Marcus; Harding, Matthew C.; Lamarche, Carlos; Does development lead to the establishment of more democratic institutions? The key to the puzzle, we argue, is the previously unrecognized fact that based on quantitative regime scores, countries...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: January 9, 2009 More

Honor in International Relations: by Joshi, Shashank; The concept of honor has an extensive and distinguished lineage in the study of international relations, although contemporary theory has lost sight of its importance. This study begins to remedy...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: December 2008 More

Model Comparison and Simulation for Hierarchical Models: Analyzing Rural-Urban Migration in Thailand: by Garip, Filiz; Western, Bruce; Sociological research often examines the effects of social context with hierarchical models. In these applications, individuals are nested in social contexts—like school classes, neighborhoods or...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: December 2008 More

Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China: by Abrami, Regina M.; Malesky, Edmund; Zheng, Yu; Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic growth than China and Vietnam. But while China's income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam's...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2008 More

Biofuels and Sustainable Development: by Clark, William C.; Devereux, Michael; Lee, Henry; The goals and concerns surrounding the debate over government policies related to the greater use and production of biofuels were addressed in an executive session convened by the John F. Kennedy...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2008 More

Outsourcing the Big Stick: The Consequences of Using Private Military Companies: by Petersohn, Ulrich; The outsourcing of military functions is always accompanied by a loss of control over the use of force. Whereas the variances in handling consequences by weak versus strong states have already been...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: June 2008 More

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