Tom Bryan, Jacob Carlson, Abhishek Arora, and Melissa Dell. “EfficientOCR: An Extensible, Open-Source Package for Efficiently Digitizing World Knowledge”,Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing (Systems Demonstrations Track), forthcoming Paper.
Xinmei Yang, Abhishek Arora, Shao-Yu Jheng, and Melissa Dell. “Quantifying Character Similarity with Vision Transformers,” Paper. Forthcoming Empirical Methods on Natural Language Processing.
Melissa Dell, Jacob Carlson, Tom Bryan, Emily Silcock, Abhishek Arora, Zejiang Shen, Luca D’Amico-Wong, Quan Le, Pablo Querubin, Leander Heldring. “American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers” NeurIPS (Benchmarks and Datasets Track), forthcoming Paper, Dataset, Github
Shen, Zejiang, Ruochen Zhang, Melissa Dell, Benjamin Lee, Jacob Carlson, and Weining Li. “LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep Learning Based Document Image Analysis.” International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (2021), 131-146. Article Github Website
Dell, Melissa, and Benjamin Olken. “The Development Effects of the Extractive Colonial Economy: The Dutch Cultivation System in Java.” Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 1 (2020): 164-203. Paper; Appendix; Data Files
Zhang, Kaixuan, Zejiang Shen, Jie Zhou, and Melissa Dell. “Information Extraction from Text Regions with Complex Tabular Structure.” Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Document Intelligence Workshop (2019). Paper
Dell, Melissa, Benjamin Feigenberg, and Kensuke Teshima. “The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico.” American Economic Review: Insights 1, no. 1 (2019): 43-58. Paper; Appendix; Data files
Dell, Melissa, and Pablo Querubin. “Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 133, no. 2 (2018): 701-764. Paper; Appendix; Data files
Dell, Melissa, Nathan Lane, and Pablo Querubin. “The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam.” Econometrica 86, no. 6 (2018): 2083-2121. Paper; Published Appendix; Online Only Appendix; Data files
Dell, Melissa. “Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War.” American Economic Review 105, no. 6 (2015): 1738-1779. Paper; appendix; data files
Dell, Melissa, Benjamin Jones, and Benjamin Olken. “What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature.” Journal of Economic Literature (2014). Paper; Appendix
Dell, Melissa, Benjamin Jones, and Benjamin Olken. “Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 4, no. 3 (2012): 66-95. Paper; Appendix; Data files
Dell, Melissa, and Daron Acemoglu. “Productivity Differences Between and Within Countries.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2, no. 1 (2010): 169–188. Paper; Appendix; Data files
Dell, Melissa. “The Persistent Effects of Peru’s Mining Mita.” Econometrica 78, no. 6 (2010): 1863-1903.Article; Appendix; Spanish translation; Data files 1; Data files 2; Data files 3
Dell, Melissa, Benjamin Jones, and Benjamin Olken. “Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross-Sectional and Panel Estimates.” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 99, no. 2 (2009): 198-204. Article; Appendix
Arora, Abhishek, Xinmei Yang, Shao-Yu Jheng, and Melissa Dell. “Linking Representations with Multimodal Contrastive Learning,” Paper
Abhishek Arora and Melissa Dell. “LinkTransformer: A Unified Package for Record Linkage with Transformer Language Models.” Webpage, Paper, Github
Carlson, Jacob, Tom Bryan, and Melissa Dell. “Efficient OCR for Building a Diverse Digital History” Paper
Dell, Melissa. “Path Dependence in Development: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution.” Paper; Appendix