Yuchtman, Noam

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Article

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Kolstad, Jonathan T., Rao, Aakaash, Tebaldi, Pietro, Yuchtman, Noam (2026). Polarisation and public policy: political adverse selection under Obamacare. The Economic Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf079 picture_as_pdf

Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Universities and the contested creation of the elite. The Manchester School, 93(5), 427 - 433. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12517 picture_as_pdf

Sabet, Navid, Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Identifying partisan gerrymandering and its consequences: evidence from the 1990 US census redistricting. Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, https://doi.org/10.1086/733776 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson: the identification of historically contingent causal effects. Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 127(3), 495 - 510. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12596 picture_as_pdf

Dal Bó, Ernesto, Hutkova, Karolina, Leucht, Lukas, Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823. Journal of Economic History, 85(2), 336 - 369. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725000117 picture_as_pdf

Hutkova, Karolina, Dal Bó, Ernesto, Leucht, Lukas, Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Company-state at home: the East India Company and the fiscal system in eighteenth-century Britain. Past and Present, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009 picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Peng, Wenwei, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Government as venture capitalists in artificial intelligence. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, 4, https://doi.org/10.1086/732854 picture_as_pdf

Kaur, Harnoor, Yuchtman, Noam (2024). Protests on campus: the political economy of universities and social movements. Comparative Economic Studies, 66(4), 621–638. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41294-024-00248-8 picture_as_pdf

Callen, Mike, Weigel, Jonathan, Yuchtman, Noam (2024). Experiments about institutions. Annual Review of Economics, 16, 105 – 131. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-091823-031317 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Kao, Andrew, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam (2024). Protests. Annual Review of Economics, 16(1), 519 - 543. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-082423-032519 picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Kao, Andrew, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam (2023). AI-tocracy. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 138(3), 1349 - 1402. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad012 picture_as_pdf

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Cantoni, Davide, Funk, Patricia, Schönenberger, Felix, Yuchtman, Noam (2023). Identifying the effect of election closeness on voter turnout: evidence from Swiss referenda. Journal of the European Economic Association, 22(2), 876 - 914. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvad038 picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam (2022). Data-intensive innovation and the state: evidence from AI firms in China. Review of Economic Studies, 90(4), 1701 - 1723. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdac056 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Heizlsperger, Louis-Jonas, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam, Zhang, Y. Jane (2022). The fundamental determinants of protest participation: evidence from Hong Kong’s antiauthoritarian movement. Journal of Public Economics, 211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104667 picture_as_pdf

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Cantoni, Davide, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam, Zhang, Y. Jane (2021). Persistent political engagement: social interactions and the dynamics of protest movements. American Economic Review: Insights, 3(2), 233 - 250. https://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20200261 picture_as_pdf

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Callen, Mike, Ferman, Bruno, Gulzar, Saad, Hasanain, Ali, Yuchtman, Noam (2020). Political identity: experimental evidence on anti-Americanism in Pakistan. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(5), 2532 – 2560. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvz053 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Yang, David Y, Yuchtman, Noam, Zhang, Y Jane (2019). Protests as strategic games: experimental evidence from Hong Kong's antiauthoritarian movement. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 134(2), 1021 - 1077. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjz002 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Dittmar, Jeremiah, Yuchtman, Noam (2018). Religious competition and reallocation: the political economy of secularization in the Protestant Reformation. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(4), 2037 - 2096. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjy011 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Chen, Yuyu, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam, Zhang, Y. Jane (2017). Curriculum and ideology. Journal of Political Economy, 125(2), 338-392. https://doi.org/10.1086/690951 picture_as_pdf

Yuchtman, Noam (2017). Teaching to the tests: an economic analysis of traditional and modern education in late imperial and republican China. Explorations in Economic History, 63, 70-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2016.11.003 picture_as_pdf

Deming, David J., Yuchtman, Noam, Abulafi, Amira, Goldin, Claudia, Katz, Lawrence F. (2016). The value of postsecondary credentials in the labor market: an experimental study. American Economic Review, 106(3), 778-806. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20141757 picture_as_pdf

Chen, Yuyu, Naidu, Suresh, Yu, Tinghua, Yuchtman, Noam (2015). Intergenerational mobility and institutional change in 20th century China. Explorations in Economic History, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2015.07.001 picture_as_pdf

Deming, David J., Goldin, Claudia, Katz, Lawrence F., Yuchtman, Noam (2015). Can online learning bend the higher education cost curve? American Economic Review, 105(5), 496-501. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20151024 picture_as_pdf

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Ederer, Florian, Ferman, Bruno, Yuchtman, Noam (2014). Understanding mechanisms underlying peer effects: evidence from a field experiment on financial decisions. Econometrica, 82(4), 1273 - 1301. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA11991 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam (2014). Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(2), 823-887. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju007 picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam (2013). The political economy of educational content and development: lessons from history. Journal of Development Economics, 104, 233-244. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.04.004 picture_as_pdf

Berdejó, Carlos, Yuchtman, Noam (2013). Crime, punishment, and politics: an analysis of political cycles in criminal sentencing. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(3), 741-756. https://doi.org/10.1162/REST_a_00296 picture_as_pdf

Naidu, Suresh, Yuchtman, Noam (2013). Coercive contract enforcement: law and the labor market in nineteenth century industrial Britain. American Economic Review, 103(1), 107-144. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.103.1.107 picture_as_pdf

Chapter

Beraja, Martin, Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Generalized disruption: society, work, and property rights in the age of AI. In Agrawal, A., Gans, J., Goldfarb, A. & Tucker, C. (Eds.), The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: Political Economy . University of Chicago Press. [In Press] picture_as_pdf

Yuchtman, Noam (2024). Fight fire with fire: the erosion of Israel’s democracy and the popular response. In Razin, A. (Ed.), The Transition to Illiberal Democracy Economic Drivers and Consequences (pp. 35 - 42). CEPR Press.

Yuchtman, Noam, Cantoni, Davide (2021). Historical natural experiments: bridging economics and economic history. In Bisin, A. & Federico, G. (Eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics . Elsevier Ltd.

Naidu, Suresh, Yuchtman, Noam (2018). Labor market institutions in the gilded age of American economic history. In Cain, L. P., Fishback, P. V. & Rhode, P. W. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190882617.013.12 picture_as_pdf

Dataset

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Kolstad, Jonathan, Rao, Aakaash, Tebaldi, Pietro, Yuchtman, Noam (2025). Replication package for: "Polarisation and Public Policy: Political Adverse Selection under Obamacare". [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16930248

Hutkova, Karolina, Yuchtman, Noam, Dal Bo, Ernesto, Leucht, Lukas, Betz, Niklas (2024). Replication for "Dissecting the sinews of power: International trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823". [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e203841

Yuchtman, Noam, Beraja, Martin, Kao, Andrew, Yang, David Y. (2023). Replication Data for: 'AI-tocracy'. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/gcovgx

Yuchtman, Noam, Bursztyn, Leonardo, Cantoni, Davide, Yang, David, Zhang, Jane (2021). Code for: "Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements". [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e122421

Yuchtman, Noam, Bursztyn, Leonardo, Cantoni, Davide, Yang, David, Zhang, Jane (2021). Data for: "Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements". [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e145181

Yuchtman, Noam, Cantoni, Davide, Yang, David Y., Zhang, Y. Jane (2019). Replication Data for: 'Protests as Strategic Games: Experimental Evidence from Hong Kong's Antiauthoritarian Movement'. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/gvomur

Dittmar, Jeremiah, Cantoni, Davide, Yuchtman, Noam (2018). Replication Data for: 'Religious Competition and Reallocation: The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation'. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/qulaln

Working paper

Dal Bo, Ernesto, Hutkova, Karolina, Leucht, Lukas, Yuchtman, Noam Meir (2023). Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain's fiscal-military state, 1689-1823. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1931). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Bursztyn, Leonardo, Kolstad, Jonathan T., Rao, Aakaash, Tebaldi, Pietro, Yuchtman, Noam (2022). Political adverse selection. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1858). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Kao, Andrew, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam (2021). AI-tocracy. (CEP Discussion Papers 1811). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Kao, Andrew, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam Meir (2021). AI-tocracy. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1811). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam (2021). Data-intensive innovation and the State: evidence from AI firms in China. (CEP Discussion Papers 1755). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Beraja, Martin, Yang, David Y., Yuchtman, Noam Meir (2021). Data-intensive innovation and the State: evidence from AI firms in China. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1755). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf

Cantoni, Davide, Dittmar, Jeremiah E., Yuchtman, Noam (2017). Reallocation and secularization: the economic consequences of the Protestant Reformation. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1483). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.