Andrew S. Garib

Spotlight

“Poor Man’s Castle? Debtor Protections, Land Ownership, and Inequality in Antebellum America.” (advisor: Eugene White), Spring 2022 [ .pdf | .pptx ]

“Legal, Political and Ideological Origins of US Homestead Exemptions.” Spring 2022 [ .pdf ]

“A Guide to Matching Historical Places to their Counties Using GIS and MS Excel.” Spring 2021 [ .pdf ]

Papers & proposals

“Boots on the Ground: Do British Expatriate Populations Explain British Capital Flows Before WWI?” Second-year paper (advisor: Hugh Rockoff), 19 October 2018 [ .pdf | .dta ]

Related: “New Zealand or Siam? Did British Creditors Before WWI See Poor British Empire Members as Insiders or Outsiders? Evidence From Time Series.” Proposal, Econ 510: Applied Macroeconomic Methods (R. Chang, FA17), December 2018 [ .pdf | .zip ]

“Public Firm Entry Threat in Markets with Collusion and Stochastic Demand.” Econ 523: Industrial Organization (T. Sjostrom, SP18), June 2018 [ .pdf | .m ]

“How Do Property Taxes Affect Housing Supply? A Lutz-Style Model with Endogenous Land-Use Regulations and Path Dependency in Supply Elasticity.” Proposal, Econ 515: Public Economics (Altshuler/Agan, SP18), 30 April 2018 [ .pdf | .pptx ]

Teaching

“The Rise and Fall of Indentured Labor in Colonial America.” Econ 305: American Economic History (Summer 2018) (substituting for G. Clarke), 30 May 2018 [ .pptx ]

“4. Slavery.” Econ 305: American Economic History (Summer 2019) (with G. Clarke) [ .pptx | .pdf ]

“5. Immigration.” Econ 305: American Economic History (Summer 2019) (with G. Clarke) [ .pptx | .pdf ]

“6. Westward Expansion.” Econ 305: American Economic History (Summer 2019) (with G. Clarke) [ .pptx | .pdf ]

“8. Bimetallism, Gold, The Fed.” Econ 305: American Economic History (Summer 2019) (with G. Clarke) [ .pptx | .pdf ]

“9. The Great Depression.” Econ 305: American Economic History (Summer 2019) (with G. Clarke) [ .pptx | .pdf ]

“13. Child Development.” Econ 120: Inequality (Fall 2019) (C. Campbell) [ .pptx ]

“Everything You Wanted to Know About Percentiles but Were Afraid to Ask ” (Fall 2019) [ .pptx ]

Syllabus. Econ 322: Introduction to Econometrics (Summer 2020) [ .pdf ]

Introductory slides. Econ 322: Introduction to Econometrics (Summer 2020) [ .pptx ]

Joint Normal Distribution example. Econ 322: Introduction to Econometrics (Summer 2020) [ .xlsx | .do ]

Concept and Formula Summary Tables. Econ 322: Introduction to Econometrics (Summer 2020) [ .docx ]

Selected classwork

“The Origins of Central Banking.” Econ 614: Global Monetary and Financial History (M. Bordo, FA17), October 2017 [ .pdf ]

“The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform (B. Petrongolo 2009).” Econ 520: Labor (J. Hunt, FA17), December 2017 [ .pdf ]

“Altered States: Taxes and the Location of Foreign Direct Investment in America (J. R. Hines 1996).” Econ 515: Public Economics (Altshuler/Agan, SP18), 2 April 2018 [ .pptx ]

“New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression (Cole & Ohanian 2004).” Econ 541: American Economic History (E. White, SP19), 16 April 2019 [ .pptx ]

“Optimal Development Policies with Financial Frictions (Itskhoki & Moll 2019).” Econ 612: Macroeconomic Seminar (R. Chang, SP19), 1 May 2019 [ .pdf | .pptx ]

“Cotton, Slavery, and the New History of Capitalism (Olmstead & Rhode 2018).” HEDG Summer School 2020, University of Southern Denmark, 20 August 2020 [ .pptx ]

Miscellaneous

Coke, Charles Anthony (1864). Census of the British Empire: Compiled from Official Returns for the Year 1861 with its Colonies and Foreign Possessions (Part II). London: Harrison. [ .pdf ]

General Register Office (1906). Census of the British Empire, 1901: Report with Summary. London: Darling & Son. [ .pdf ]

GESA bucks (2019 series; legal tender only at Graduate Economics Student Association events, and even then pretty much worthless) [ .png ]

External links

• Rutgers University Department of Economics

• Birkbeck, University of London Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics

• The Cliometric Society

• Economic History Association

• The Online Historical Population Reports (University of Essex)