Publications

Published Papers

• • Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship  (with Graziella Bertocchi and Gian Luca Tedeschi), The World Bank Economic Review, 2024, lhae014

  • "COVID-19, Race, and Gender" (with Graziella Bertocchi), Journal of Urban Economics Insight, 2022, 141(103484)

    • Replication Data

Media:

1.  COVID Mortality has been disproportionately high for Black Women, Brooking

• • "Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness, and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the US" (with Graziella Bertocchi, Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo),  American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, 12 (3): 76-106

    •  Replication Data

1. Boosting the youth vote: How do states respond when young voters gain more political leverage? by Chris Fleisher
2.  In the papers  (The New York Times)

• • "The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa: The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior" (with Graziella Bertocchi),  Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 140:90-105  

    •  Replication Data

1. How is the Slave Trade Linked to the Spread of HIV in Africa, World Economic Forum 
2. Primordial risk factors for HIV spread in Africa 

• • "Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: The Market for Lemons" (with  Alessia Isopi and Ola Olsson), Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77(4):1083-1115    

    • Data and Code

1. Il Business degli Agrumi che Battezzo' la Mafia, La Repubblica
2.  How a 19th-Century Lemon Craze Gave Rise to the Infamous Sicilian Mob, Washington Post 
3. Lemon Gave Mafia Taste for Sharp Practices, The Times

• • "De Jure and de Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi" (with Graziella Bertocchi), Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28(4):321-345 

    • Data on Lynching and 

    • Data on Voting by Race for Mississippi  in 1896 and 1899

• • "Ethnic Diversity and Conflict" (with Michael Bleaney), Journal of Institutional Economy, 2017, 13(2): 357-78

• • "Size Matters: The Effect of the Size of Ethnic Groups on Development", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 79(3): 291-318

    • Data

• • "State History, Historical Legitimacy and Modern Ethnic Diversity" (with Michael Bleaney), European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 43: 159-70

• • "Slavery, Education, and Inequality" (with Graziella Bertocchi), European Economic Review, 2014, 40:197-209

• • "The Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery" (with Graziella Bertocchi), Journal of Comparative Economic, 2012, 40(4), 581-595 

• • "Biogeographical Conditions, the Transition to Agriculture and Long-Run Growth" (with Michael Bleaney),  European Economic Review, 2011, 55(7):  943-954

• • "How Different are the Correlates of Onset and Continuation of Civil Wars?" (with Michael Bleaney), Journal of Peace Research, 2011, 48(2 ): 145-155

• • "Geographical Influences on Long-Run Development" (with Michael Bleaney) Journal of African Economies, 2010, 19 (5): 635-656  

Working Papers

• • Bitter Sugar: Slavery and the Black Family (with Graziella Bertocchi)

• The Effect of Abortion Policies on Fertility and Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Family Planning and Ethnic Heritage: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

• Gender Reforms and Female Leadership (with Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo) 

• COVID-19, Race and Redlining (with Graziella Bertocchi)

1. Racial and ethnic disparities in the face of the coronavirus, IZA World of Labor

Books Review and Book Chapters

• • Econometric Identification (with Matthias Blum) in Blum, Matthias and Christopher L. Colvin (Eds.), An Economist's Guide to Economic History; Palgrave Macmillian, 2018

  • Dennis M.P. McCarthy, An Economic History of  Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach. New York: Routledge, 2011.  xi + 323 pp. $130 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-48796-2; Published by EH.Net (September 2012)

Work in Progress

• • Food Variability and Preference for Redistributions (with Graziella Bertocchi and Gian Luca Tedeschi) 

  • The Effect of Coerced Sterilization Among Native American Women