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Guy Michaels Position: Lecturer in Economics Research Interests: Labour Economics, Economic Development, Economic Geography Contact details: Tel: +44 (0)20 7852 3518 Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7595 Email: g.michaels@lse.ac.uk Room number: R 438 Secretarial Support: c/o Room S 600, +44(0)20 7955 6426 Selected Publications The Effect of Trade on the Demand for Skill - Evidence from the Interstate Highway System Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2008, 90(4): 683-701 Earlier CEPR DP version The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children Joint with Elizabeth Ananat Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(3): 611-629 Earlier CEPR DP version Freedom Fries Joint with Xiaojia Zhi American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2010, 2(3): 256-81, Appendix Tables, Appendix Figures Earlier CEPR DP version The Long Term Consequences of Resource-Based Specialisation Economic Journal, March 2011, 121(551): 31-57 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal by an author who is within five years of completing their PhD Earlier version (February 2009) Urbanization and Structural Transformation Joint with Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding This version: November 2011 [Previous version: CEPR DP 7016, October 2008] Accepted for publication, Quarterly Journal of Economics Web-Based Technical Appendix Working Papers Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil Joint with Francesco Caselli This version: January 2011 Technical Appendix [Previous version: NBER WP 15550, December 2009] Revision requested, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years Joint with Ashwini Natraj and John Van Reenen [Previous version: NBER Working Paper 16138, June 2010] Appendix Featured on the Economist [pdf] Revision requested, Review of Economics and Statistics The Division of Labor, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing CEPR Discussion Paper 6358, June 2007 Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts? Joint with Yu-Hsiang Lei, October 2011 Technical Note: An Eaton and Kortum (2002) Model of Urbanization and Structural Transformation Joint with Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding This version: August 2011 Work in Progress Cities and Worker Interactions Joint with Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding Copyright @ London School of Economics & Political Science