Melissa Dell

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• Harvard University / Department of Economics
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Research profile

author of:

• Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2015)
  by Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:105:y:2015:i:6:p:1738-79)
• Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
  American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2009)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin F. Jones & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aecrev:v:99:y:2009:i:2:p:198-204)
• Productivity Differences between and within Countries
  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association (2010)
  by Daron Acemoglu & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aejmac:v:2:y:2010:i:1:p:169-88)
• Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association (2012)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin F. Jones & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aejmac:v:4:y:2012:i:3:p:66-95)
• The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico
  American Economic Review: Insights, American Economic Association (2019)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin Feigenberg & Kensuke Teshima
  (ReDIF-article, aea:aerins:v:1:y:2019:i:1:p:43-58)
• What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
  Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2014)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin F. Jones & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-article, aea:jeclit:v:52:y:2014:i:3:p:740-98)
• Efficient OCR for Building a Diverse Digital History
  Papers, arXiv.org (2023)
  by Jacob Carlson & Tom Bryan & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, arx:papers:2304.02737)
• Linking Representations with Multimodal Contrastive Learning
  Papers, arXiv.org (2023)
  by Abhishek Arora & Xinmei Yang & Shao-Yu Jheng & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, arx:papers:2304.03464)
• Quantifying Character Similarity with Vision Transformers
  Papers, arXiv.org (2023)
  by Xinmei Yang & Abhishek Arora & Shao-Yu Jheng & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, arx:papers:2305.14672)
• A Massive Scale Semantic Similarity Dataset of Historical English
  Papers, arXiv.org (2023)
  by Emily Silcock & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, arx:papers:2306.17810)
• American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers
  Papers, arXiv.org (2023)
  by Melissa Dell & Jacob Carlson & Tom Bryan & Emily Silcock & Abhishek Arora & Zejiang Shen & Luca D'Amico-Wong & Quan Le & Pablo Querubin & Leander Heldring
  (ReDIF-paper, arx:papers:2308.12477)
• EfficientOCR: An Extensible, Open-Source Package for Efficiently Digitizing World Knowledge
  Papers, arXiv.org (2023)
  by Tom Bryan & Jacob Carlson & Abhishek Arora & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, arx:papers:2310.10050)
• The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita
  Econometrica, Econometric Society (2010)
  by Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-article, ecm:emetrp:v:78:y:2010:i:6:p:1863-1903)
• Climate Change and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2008)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin F. Jones & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:14132)
• Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin F. Jones & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:14680)
• Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2009)
  by Daron Acemoglu & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:15155)
• What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2013)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin F. Jones & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:19578)
• Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016)
  by Melissa Dell & Pablo Querubin
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:22395)
• The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017)
  by Melissa Dell & Nathaniel Lane & Pablo Querubin
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:23208)
• The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin A. Olken
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:24009)
• Noise-Robust De-Duplication at Scale
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022)
  by Emily Silcock & Luca D'Amico-Wong & Jinglin Yang & Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:30726)
• Deep Learning for Economists
  NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2024)
  by Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-paper, nbr:nberwo:32768)
• Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
  The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College (2018)
  by Melissa Dell & Pablo Querubin
  (ReDIF-article, oup:qjecon:v:133:y:2018:i:2:p:701-764.)
• The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java
  The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2020)
  by Melissa Dell & Benjamin A Olken
  (ReDIF-article, oup:restud:v:87:y:2020:i:1:p:164-203.)
• Los efectos persistentes de la mita minera en el Perú
  Apuntes. Revista de ciencias sociales, Fondo Editorial, Universidad del Pacífico (2011)
  by Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-article, pai:apunup:es-68-07)
• Persistence and transformation in economic development
  Indian Economic Review, Springer (2021)
  by Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-article, spr:inecre:v:56:y:2021:i:2:d:10.1007_s41775-021-00122-9)
• The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
  Econometrica, Econometric Society (2018)
  by Melissa Dell & Nathan Lane & Pablo Querubin
  (ReDIF-article, wly:emetrp:v:86:y:2018:i:6:p:2083-2121)
• A Comment on: “Goals and Gaps: Educational Careers of Immigrant Children” by Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti
  Econometrica, Econometric Society (2022)
  by Melissa Dell
  (ReDIF-article, wly:emetrp:v:90:y:2022:i:1:p:31-33)