Publications

Journal Articles

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Choy, James P. (2020), "Kompromat:  A theory of blackmail as a system of governance," Journal of Development Economics 147, 102535

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Choy, James P. (2020), "Religious rules as a means of strengthening family ties:  Theory and evidence from the Amish," Journal of Comparative Economics 48:3, 729-748.

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Choy, James P. (2018), "Social Division with Endogenous Hierarchy," Economic Journal 128:615, 2711-2742.

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Book Chapters

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Choy, James P. (2022), "Religion and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital," In K.F. Zimmerman (Ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer

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Working Papers​

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Choy, James P. and Thilo R. Huning (2025), "Safer but poorer in numbers:  Violence and spatial misallocation in the Jim Crow South"

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Choy, James P.  (2024), "A theory of discriminatory institutions, with applications to apartheid and to the political economy of migration"

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Choy, James P. (2022), "Rewarded by pride or punished by guilt?  How socially induced moral emotions promote altruism"

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