Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II
By Benjamin F. Jones, Benjamin A. Olken. 2005
1,184 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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In Demography
- Arvind Subramanian
- Cecilia García-Peñalosa
- Manuel Funke
- M. Schularick
- Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
- Christoph Trebesch
- Jonathan D. Ostry
- Marianne Bertrand
In Economics and Econometrics
- R. Duchin
- Marianne Bertrand
- Esther Duflo
- Siqi Zheng
- Matthew E. Kahn
- Scott R. Baker
- Arvind Subramanian
- Timothy J. Besley
In Sociology and Political Science
- R. Duchin
- Esther Duflo
- John Antonakis
- Marianne Bertrand
- D. Sosyura
- Arvind Subramanian
- Francisco Pérez-González
- Manuel Funke
Citations in the corpus
- The Glittering Prizes: Career Incentives and Bureaucrat Performance (2019, background): “2012), political (Jones and Olken 2005; Yao and Zhang 2015; Persson and Zhuravskaya 2016; Jia 2017; Martinez-Bravo et al. 2017) and public sector (Xu 2018) leaders.”
- Financial Globalization and Economic Policies (2009, neutral): “Financial integration allows capital-poor countries to diversify away from their narrow production bases 21 Recent literature has emphasized the importance of TFP growth as the main driver of long-term GDP growth (see, e.g., Hall and Jones, 1999; Jones and Olken, 2005; Gourinchas and Jeanne, 2006).”
- Manufacturing as the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies (2017, positive): “…as the primary channel through which a developing economy absorbs the best practices from advanced economies (Hausmann, Hwang, and Rodrik 2007; Jones and Olken 2005), thus it plays a significant role in adopting the state-of-the-art technology from developed economies and diffusing the…”
- Why do leaders matter? A study of expert knowledge in a superstar setting (2011, background): “There are also studies in the sports industry that suggest managers can make a difference, including Porter and Scully (1982), Kahn (1993), Ruggiero, Hadley and Gustafson (1996), and Dawson, Dobson and Gerrard (2000), and Dawson and Dobson (2002).”
- Managers with and without Style: Evidence Using Exogenous Variation (2013, methodology): “First-difference tests of this type have been used in the economics literature on political leadership styles (e.g., Jones and Olken (2005)).”