Research

Up-to-date versions of current research papers can be found at the bottom of the page. The papers include:

• Did Capital Requirements Promote Bank Stability: Lesson From the National Bank Era with Micheal Gou, Submitted
• Can Transitory Income Shocks be Made Permanent: The Plight of Farmers in US Cotton South 1910-30
  • Examines how household production/occupations respond to income fluctuations in credit constrained households
• Saving Lives One Bale at a Time
  • Examines the link between weather based income fluctuations and lynchings in the Cotton South during the early 1900s
• Long Run Educational Attainment Effects of Transitory Weather Based Income Shocks with Katherine Eriksson and John Blanchette (In Progress)
• Examining the Effect of Economic Shocks on the Schooling Choices of Southern Farmers
  • Examines how income fluctuations affect school attendance by credit constrained households.
  • European Review of Economic History, Volume 23, Issue 2, May 2019