Samuel Berlinski
 

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Articles published in refereed journals

• “Market Regulation and Firm Performance: The Case of Smoking Bans in the UK” (In collaboration with Jérôme Adda and Stephen Machin). Forthcoming Journal of Law and Economics.

• "The Political Consequences of Franchise Extension: Evidence from the Second Reform Act” (In collaboration with Torun Dewan). Quarterly Journal of Political Science 6 (2011), 329-376.

• “Preschool and Maternal Labor Outcomes: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design” (In collaboration with Sebastian Galiani and Patrick McEwan). Economic Development and Cultural Change 59 (2011), 313-344.

• “The Impact of Individual and Collective Performance on Ministerial Tenure” (In collaboration with Torun Dewan and Keith Dowding).  Journal of Politics 72 (2010), 559-571.

• “The Effect of Pre-primary Education on Primary School Performance” (In collaboration with Sebastian Galiani and Paul Gertler). Journal of Public Economics 93 (2009), 219-234.

• “Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance and School-Age Profiles” (In collaboration with Sebastian Galiani and Marco Manacorda). Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008), 1416-1440.

• “Wages and Contracting Out: Does the Law of One Price Hold?” British Journal of Industrial Relations 46 (2008), 59-75.

• “The Effect of a Large Expansion of Pre-primary School Facilities on Preschool Attendance and Maternal Employment” (In collaboration with Sebastian Galiani). Labour Economics 14 (2007), 665-680.

• “The Determinants of Ministerial Tenure in the United Kingdom,1945-1997” (In collaboration with Torun Dewan and Keith Dowding). British Journal of Political Science 37 (2007), 245-262.

• “Short Run Economic Effects of the Scottish Smoking Ban” (In collaboration with Jérôme Adda and Stephen Machin). International Journal of Epidemiology 36 (2007), 149-154. Featured in Editor's Choice, The Economist and The Independent.

Articles currently under review

• "Incentives, Resources and the Organization of the School System" (In collaboration with Facundo Albornoz and Antonio Cabrales). CEPR discussion paper 7964 

Books

• Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in the British Government 1945-2007 (In collaboration with Torun Dewan and Keith Dowding). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2012).

Book chapters

• “Computers in Schools: Why Governments Should Do their Homework” (In collaboration with Matias Busso, Julian Cristia, and Eugenio Severin). In Development Connections: Unveiling the Impact of New Information Technologies, Alberto Chong (ed), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, (2011).

• "Choosing, Moving and Resigning at Westminster” (In collaboration with Torun Dewan, Keith Dowding and Gita Subrahmanyam). In The Selection of Ministers in Europe: Hiring and Firing, (eds) Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont, London: Routledge, (2008).