Robin Burgess

Current Working Papers

• The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics [Appendix]
  Robin Burgess, Matthew Hansen, Benjamin Olken, Peter Potapov, Stefanie Sieber
  April 2012
  
  
• Can Openness Mitigate the Effects of Weather Shocks? Evidence from India’s Famine Era
  Robin Burgess, Dave Donaldson
  January 2010
  
  
• The Intention to Participate in Adolescent Training Programs: Evidence from Uganda
  Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Markus Goldstein, Selim Gulesci, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman
  October 2009
  
  
• The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India
  Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen Redding and Fabrizio Zilibotti
  December 2007
  
  
• Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment [Appendix] [Longer Version] Robin Burgess and Rohini Pande
  June 2005
  
  
• Entry Liberalization and Inequality in Economic Performance
  Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen Redding and Fabrizio Zilibotti
  September 2004
  
  
• Banking for the Poor: Evidence from India
  Robin Burgess, Rohini Pande and Grace Wong
  September 2004
  
  
• Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India
  Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
  February 2004
  
  Labor Regulation Data Appendix
  Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
  August 2003
  
  
• Towards a Microeconomics of Growth
  Robin Burgess and Anthony Venables
  August 2003
  
  
• Halving Global Poverty
  Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
  March 2003
  The data and the programs used in this paper are available at http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/tbesley/hgp/
  
  
• Mass Media and Political Accountability
  Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess and Andrea Prat
  February 2002
  
  
• The Political Economy of Government Responsiveness: Theory and Evidence from India
  Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
  January 2002
  
  
• Modernisation and Son Preference
  Robin Burgess and Juzhong Zhuang
  December 2001
  
  
• Political Agency, Government Responsiveness and the Role of the Media
  Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
  October 2000
  
  
• Land Reform, Poverty Reduction and Growth: Evidence from India
  Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess
  July 1999
  
  

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