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Selected publications

Article

Eberhard-Ruiz, Andreas and Moradi, Alexander (2019) Regional market integration in East Africa: local but no regional effects? Journal of Development Economics, 140. pp. 255-268. ISSN 0304-3878

Mamo, Nemera Gebeyehu, Bhattacharyya, Sambit and Moradi, Alexander (2019) Intensive and extensive margins of mining and development: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Development Economics, 139. pp. 28-49. ISSN 0304-3878

Vanden Eynde, Oliver, Kuhn, Patrick M and Moradi, Alexander (2018) Trickle-Down ethnic politics: drunk and absent in the Kenya police force (1957-1970). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10 (3). pp. 388-417. ISSN 1945-7731

Jedwab, Remi, Kerby, Edward and Moradi, Alexander (2017) History, path dependence and development: evidence from colonial railroads, settlers and cities in Kenya. Economic Journal, 127 (603). pp. 1467-1494. ISSN 0013-0133

Jedwab, Remi and Moradi, Alexander (2016) The permanent effects of transportation revolutions in poor countries: evidence from Africa. Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (2). pp. 268-284. ISSN 0034-6535

Fafchamps, Marcel and Moradi, Alexander (2015) Referral and job performance: evidence from the Ghana colonial army. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63 (4). pp. 715-751. ISSN 0013-0079

Cogneau, Denis and Moradi, Alexander (2014) Borders that divide: education and religion in Ghana and Togo since colonial times. Journal of Economic History, 74 (3). pp. 694-729. ISSN 0022-0507

Moradi, Alexander (2012) Climate, height and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 90 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN 1827-4765

Cazzuffi, Chiara and Moradi, Alexander (2012) Membership size and cooperative performance: evidence from Ghanaian cocoa producers’ societies, 1930-36. Economic History of Developing Regions, 27 (1). pp. 67-92. ISSN 2078-0389

Moradi, Alexander (2010) Nutritional status and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, 1950-1980. Economics & Human Biology, 8 (1). pp. 16-29. ISSN 1570-677X

Moradi, Alexander (2009) Towards an Objective Account of Nutrition and Health in Colonial Kenya: A Study of Stature in African Army Recruits and Civilians, 1880-1980. Journal of Economic History, 96 (3). pp. 719-754. ISSN 0022-0507

Moradi, Alexander (2008) Confronting Colonial Legacies - Lessons from Human Development in Ghana and Kenya, 1880-2000. Journal of International Development, 20 (8). pp. 1107-1121. ISSN 0954-1748

Moradi, Alexander and Baten, Joerg (2005) Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Data and New Insights from Anthropometric Estimates. World Development (8). pp. 1233-1265. ISSN 0305-750X

Book Section

Hirvonen, Kalle and Moradi, Alexander (2015) The African enigma: the mystery of tall African adults despite low national incomes revisited. In: Komlos, John and Kelly, Inas Rashad (eds.) Handbook of Economics and Human Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199389292

Moradi, Alexander (2013) Commodity trade in Africa: theory, history and future. In: Frankema, Ewout and Hillbom, Ellen (eds.) The History of African Development. AEHN.

Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera and Moradi, Alexander (2009) What Does Gender Dimorphism in Stature Tell Us About Discrimination in Rural India, 1930-1975? In: Pal, Manoranjan, Bharati, Premananda, Ghosh, Bholanath and Vasulu, T S (eds.) Gender Dimorphism: Discrimination in Rural India, 1930-1975. Oxford University Press, pp. 258-277.

Reports and working papers

Jedwab, Remi, Meier zu Selhausen, Felix and Moradi, Alexander (2018) The economics of missionary expansion: evidence from Africa and implications for development. Working Paper. University of Oxford, Oxon.

Thesis

Moradi, Alexander (2005) Nutrition, economic development and civil wars in sub-Saharan Africa. Doctoral thesis (PhD), Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.