Murat Iyigun         ________________________________________________________________________________

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NEW or Recently Published:

   

Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market, (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Yoram Weiss) [ Online Appendix ].

American Economic Review, 99:5, 1689-1713, December 2009.

 

Luther and Suleyman, [ Supplementary Addendum ]

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123:4, 1465-94, November 2008.

 

Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations, (with Randall P. Walsh).

Review of Economic Studies, 74:2, 507-35, April 2007.

 

Endogenous Gender Power, Household Labor Supply, and the Quantity-Quality Tradeoff, (with Randall P. Walsh).

Journal of Development Economics, 82:1, 138-55, January 2007.

  

Tales of Faith in Socioeconomic Progress,

The University of Chicago Press, book manuscript in progress.

 

On the Socioeconomic Consequences of Religious Strife and Coexistence,

in The Handbook of the Economics of Religion, Rachel McCleary, ed. The Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010.

  

Cultures, Clashes and Peace, (with Erin Fletcher), June 2009.

 

Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective), revised October 2009.

 

Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion & War), revised March 2009.

 

Divorce Laws, Remarriage and Spousal Welfare, (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Yoram Weiss), revised October 2009.

 

Spousal Matching with Children, Careers and Divorce, (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Yoram Weiss), preliminary draft.

 

Marriage, Cohabitation and Commitment, June 2009.

 

Cross-Country Trends in the Gender Education Gap: Some Stylized Facts, (with Ricardo Hausmann, Ina Ganguli and Martina Viarengo), in progress.

   

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Economics of the Family: 

 Human Capital, TechnologicalProgres

Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws, (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Yoram Weiss), revised April 2008.

 

Marriage Markets and Household Modes of Behavior, December 2006.

 

Gender Inequality, Spousal Careers and Divorce, (with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Yoram Weiss), preliminary draft.

           

      Timing of Childbearing and Economic Growth.

Journal of Development Economics, 61:1, 257-71, February 1999.

   

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Economic Growth & Development:

 

Experiencing Change and the Evolution of Adaptive Skills: Implications for Economic Growth, (with Ann L. Owen).

European Economic Review, 50:3,565-79, April 2006.Human Capital, TechnologicalProgress, and Growth:

     

On the Efficacy of Reforms: Policy Tinkering, Institutional Change, and Entrepreneurship, (with Dani Rodrik).

Institutions and Economic Growth, (T.Eicher and C. G. Penalosa, eds.), MIT Press, December 2005.

 

Income Inequality, Financial Development and Macroeconomic Fluctuations,(with Ann L. Owen).

Economic Journal, 114:495, April 2004.

 

Public Education and Intergenerational Economic Mobility.

International Economic Review, 40:3, 697-710, August 1999.

 

Risk, Entrepreneurship and Human Capital Accumulation,(with Ann L. Owen).

American Economic Review, 88:2, 454-57, May 1998.

 

The Technology Skill Content, Learning by Doing and Specialization in Foreign Trade, (with Galina An).

Journal of International Economics, 64:2,465-83, December 2004.

 

Entrepreneurs, Professionals, and Growth, (with Ann L. Owen).

Journal of Economic Growth, 4:2, 211-30, June 1999.

 

Technology Life Cycles and Endogenous Growth.

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 30:4, 687-719, April 2006.

 

      Geography, Demography, and Early Development.

Journal of Population Economics,18:2, 301-21, June 2005.        

 

      The Export Skill Content, Learning By Exporting and Economic Growth, (with Galina An).

Economics Letters, 84:1, 29-43, July 2004.

 

      Finance and Macroeconomic Volatility, (with Cevdet Denizer and Ann L. Owen).

Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2002, 2:1, 7.

 

Patent Protection and Strategic Delays in Technology Development, (with X. Maggie Chen).