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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.

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Institutionalizing Cooperation: Public Goods Experiments in the Aftermath of Civil War
by Alexander, Marcus; Christia, Fotini
Fostering cooperation is one of the main tasks of state building in the aftermath of civil wars, yet little is known about the effects of institutions of integration in increasing...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: March 2009 More
Increasing Migration, Diverging Communities: Changing Character of Migrant Streams in Rural Thailand
by Garip, Filiz; Curran, Sara
This paper studies how increasing migration changes the character of migrant streams in sending communities. Cumulative causation theory posits that past migration patterns determine future flows, as...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: February 2009 More
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
The Case for Charges on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
by Cooper, Richard N.
The proposal discussed in this paper is to levy a common charge on all emissions of greenhouse gases, worldwide. All countries would be covered in principle, but the proposal could be implemented...
Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
Published Date: January 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
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