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Robin Burgess

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62

Publications

8.3K

Citations

35

H-Index

1992

Active since

Affiliations

London School of Economics and Political Science(Current)

National Bureau of Economic Research

Centre for Economic Policy Research

University of California, Berkeley

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robin Burgess is an author at London School of Economics and Political Science specializing in economics, business, and public policy.

Top concepts

BusinessEconomicsPublic PolicyEconomic DevelopmentDevelopment EconomicsSocial SciencesAfrican DevelopmentPoliticsPovertyEconomic Analysis

Publications per year

1992–2025

62

Publications

62

Can Labor Regulation Hinder Economic Performance? Evidence from India

Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2004 · 1.4K citations

The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya

Robin Burgess, Rémi Jedwab, Edward Miguel et al. · American Economic Review · 2015 · 621 citations · Full text

Democracy, Public Policy, E-democracy +12

The Unequal Effects of Liberalization: Evidence from Dismantling the License Raj in India

Philippe Aghion, Robin Burgess, Stephen J. Redding et al. · American Economic Review · 2008 · 546 citations

Law, Indian States, Liberal Democracy +28

Taxation and development

Robin Burgess, Nicholas Stern · London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) · 1992 · 525 citations

Economics, Public Policy, Federal Income Tax +15

The Political Economy of Deforestation in the Tropics*

Robin Burgess, Matthew C. Hansen, Benjamin Olken et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 2012 · 441 citations · Full text

Engineering, Environmental Law, Agricultural Economics +18

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