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Guy Michaels 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: 32L.2.10 Administrative assistant: Kathryn Buckle/Sian Nash, 32L.1.03 Selected Publications Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over 25 years Joint with Ashwini Natraj and John Van Reenen Review of Economics and Statistics, Just Accepted publication, April 2, 2013. doi:10.1162/REST_a_00366 Appendix Featured on the Economist [pdf] Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil Joint with Francesco Caselli American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, January 2013, 5(1): 208-238 Technical Appendix Urbanization and Structural Transformation Joint with Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2012, 127(2): 535-586 (lead article) Web-Based Technical Appendix 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 in 2011 by an author who is within five years of completing their PhD Freedom Fries Joint with Xiaojia Zhi American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, July 2010, 2(3): 256-81, Appendix Tables, Appendix Figures 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 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 Working Papers Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000 Joint with Ferdinand Rauch and Stephen Redding NBER Working Paper 18715, January 2013 Appendix 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 The Division of Labor, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing CEPR Discussion Paper 6358, June 2007 Work in Progress Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012AD Joint with Ferdinand Rauch Does Defense R&D Spill Over Locally? Joint with Mirko Draca and Christian Fons-Rosen Copyright @ London School of Economics & Political Science