Research
Working papers
The Moral Values of "Rugged Individualism" (with Samuel Bazzi and Maximiliano Garcia)
[nber wp]
The Confederate Diaspora (with Samuel Bazzi, Andy Ferrara, Thomas Pearson, and Patrick Testa)
Revise & resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
[nber wp] [VoxEU column]
Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States (with Sam Bazzi, Abel Brodeur, and Joanne Haddad)
[nber wp]
Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism (with Yeonha Jung and Dietrich Vollrath)
[nber wp]
Powering Up Productivity: The Effects of Electrification on U.S. Manufacturing (with Jeanne Lafortune, Ethan Lewis, and Jose Tessada)
[nber wp]
Published and Accepted Papers
(Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support (with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Carlos Molina)
Accepted, Review of Economic Studies
[nber wp] [VoxEU column] [VoxDev column]
The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns (with Federico Droller and Santiago Pérez),
"Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic (and Political) History of Latin America and the Caribbean" (Felipe Valencia Caicedo, ed.), Palgrave, 2023.
[nber wp]
The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right (with Samuel Bazzi, Andy Ferrara, Thomas Pearson, and Patrick Testa)
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 138, Issue 3, August 2023.
[nber wp] [ungated] [the economist] [VoxTalks]
Sundown Towns and Racial Exclusion: The Southern White Diaspora and the "Great Retreat" (with Samuel Bazzi, Andy Ferrara, Thomas Pearson, and Patrick Testa)
American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 112, May 2022.
[ungated]
Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change, and Long-run Development: Evidence from the United States
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, April 2022. [Lead article] [IPUMS Spatial Research Award Winner]
[nber wp] [ungated] [AEA Research Highlights]
Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization: An Argentina-United States Comparison (with Eric Edwards and Gary Libecap)
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 65, Number S1, February 2022. [Lead article]
Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina (with Federico Droller)
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 81, Issue 3, September 2021.
"Rugged Individualism" and Collective (In)Action During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Samuel Bazzi and Mesay Gebresilasse)
Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 195, March 2021.
Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of "Rugged Individualism" in the United States (with Samuel Bazzi and Mesay Gebresilasse)
Econometrica, Vol. 88, Issue 6, November 2020.
[nber wp] [ungated] [VoxEU column]
Who was Colonized and When? A Cross-Country Analysis of Determinants (with Arhan Ertan and Louis Putterman)
European Economic Review, Vol. 83, April 2016.
Work in progress
Agricultural Productivity, International Trade, and Structural Change (with Will Johnson)
Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Electrification of U.S. Agriculture (with Jeanne Lafortune, Josefina Lavandero, Ethan Lewis, and Jose Tessada)
Deep Roots of Human Capital (with Vafa Behnam Roudsari, Louis Putterman, and Romain Wacziarg)
The Distribution of Population in the Thirteen Colonies (with Ariel Akerman)
U.S. Army Forts and Wesward Expansion (with Ariel Akerman, Samuel Bazzi, Chelsea Carter, and Mesay Gebresilasse)
Perceived Economic Performance and Support for Democracy: Evidence from Argentina (with Daron Acemoglu, Nicolas Ajzenman, Guillermo Cruces, Carlos Molina, and Gaston Garcia Zavaleta)
Sundown Towns: History and Legacy (with Samuel Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Andreas Ferrara, Thomas Pearson, and Patrick Testa)
Individualism and Innovation (with Sam Bazzi, Enrico Berkes, and Christian Fons-Rosen)
Population Diversity and Subnational Borders (with Samuel Bazzi, Mesay Gebresilasse, and Robert Margo)
Poverty and Human Capital Formation (with Alonso Ahumada Paras, Nicolas Guida Johnson, and Mahesh Karra)