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Accepted and Published Papers

  • Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2022).  Heterogeneity in disease resistance and the impact of antibiotics in the US. Accepted​ at Economics and Human Biology.
    • ​Working Paper / Appendix
    • Old Version
  • Chanda, A., & Cook, C.J. (2022).  Was India's Demonetization Redistributive? Insights from Satellites and Surveys. Accepted at Journal of Macroeconomics.
    • ​​Working Paper
  • Cook, C.J., & Shah, M. (2022).  Aggregate effects from public works: Evidence from India.  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 104, 797-806.
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / NBER / Ideas 4 India / VoxDev / Replication Files
  • Cook, C.J., Forgues, A., & Fletcher, J. (2019).  Multigenerational effects of early life health shocks.   Demography, 56, 1855-1874.
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / NBER
  • Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2018).  High School Genetic Diversity and Later-life Student Outcomes: Micro-level Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.  Journal of Economic Growth, 23, 307-339.​
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / NBER / VoxEU / Replication instructions
  • Cook, C.J. (2015). The natural selection of infectious disease resistance and its effect on contemporary health.  The Review of Economics and Statistics, 97, 742-757.
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / Replication Files
    • Media Coverage: The Growth Economics Blog.
  • Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2015).  Understanding heterogeneity in the effects of birth weight on adult cognition and wages.  Journal of Health Economics, 41, 107-116.
    • Publication / Working Paper / NBER / WLS Private Data
  • Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2015).  Can education rescue genetic liability for cognitive decline?  Social Sciences and Medicine, 127, 159-170.
    • Publication / Working Paper / WLS Private Data
  • Cook, C.J. (2014).  The role of lactase persistence in precolonial development.  Journal of Economic Growth, 19, 369-406.
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / Replication Files
    • Media Coverage: The Economist, PBS Newshour's Making $ense.
  • Cook, C.J. (2014).  Potatoes, milk, and the Old World population boom.  Journal of Development Economics, 110, 123-138.
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / Replication Files
    • Media Coverage: Splash! Milk Science.
  • Chanda, A., Cook, C.J., & Putterman, L. (2014).  Persistence of fortune: Accounting for population movements, there was no post-Columbian reversal.  AEJ: Macro, 6, 1-28 (lead article).
    • Publication / Working Paper / Appendix / Replication Files
    • Discussion by Jared Diamond.
  • Cook, C.J., & Fletcher, J. (2014).  Interactive effects of in utero nutrition and genetic inheritance on cognition: New evidence using sibling comparisons.  Economics and Human Biology, 13, 144-154.
    • Publication / Working Paper / WLS Private Data

Working Papers


  • Cook, C.J. (2021). Subnational persistence of state history: Evidence from geolocalized civilizations.
    • Early Draft

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