James Feyrer

Selected Publications

• "Benefit-cost analysis of increased trade: An order-of-magnitude estimate of the benefit-cost-ratio" with Tyazhelnikov, Aleman-Castilla, and Wong. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, July 2023

• "Distance, Trade, and Income -- The 1967 to 1975 Closing of the Suez Canal as a Natural Experiment,"  Journal of Development Economics, November 2021. Replication Archive

• "Trade and Income -- Exploiting Time Series in Geography," AEJ: Applied, October 2019

• "Measuring Geographi Spillovers: A Reply," with Erin Mansur and Bruce Sacerdote, American Economic Review, June 2020

• "Demographics and Productivity in Asia," in Demographics and Innovation in the Asia-Pacific, eds K. Eggleston, J. Park, and G. Shin, Brookings Institution Press, May 2021.

• "Undergraduate Research in the Dartmouth Economics Department," Journal of Economic Education, Fall 2017.

• "Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Fracking Revolution", with Erin Mansur and Bruce Sacerdote, American Economic Review, April 2017.

• "The Cognitive Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States", with Dimitra Politi &  David N. Weil, Journal of the European Economic Association, April 2017.

• "How Much Would US Style Fiscal Integration Buffer European Unemployment and Income Shocks?", with Bruce Sacerdote, American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2013.

• "Global Savings and Global Investment – The Transmission of Identified Fiscal Shocks", with Jay Shambaugh, AEJ: Economic Policy, May 2012.

• "The US Productivity Slowdown, the Baby Boom, and Management Quality" , Journal of Population Economics, January 2011.

• "Colonialism and Modern Income – Islands as Natural Experiments", with Bruce Sacerdote, Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2009.

• "Will The Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations", with Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Stern, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2008.

• "The Marginal Product of Capital", with Francesco Caselli, Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2007.

• "Demographics and Productivity", Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2007.

• "Aggregate Evidence on the Link Between Demographics and Productivity", Population and Development Review, March 2008.

• "Did The Rust Belt Become Shiny?: A Study of Cities and Counties That Lost Steel and Auto Jobs in the 1980s," with Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Stern, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2007.

• "Convergence By Parts,"  B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, July 2008.

• "A Contribution To The Empirics of Total Factor Productivity ," with Shekhar Aiyar, Manuscript.

• "Technological Leadership and Endogenous Growth,"  with Susanto Basu and David N. Weil, Manuscript.