Research
Accepted papers
'Getting to Denmark': the role of elites for development (with Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp and Christian Skovsgaard). Accepted at Journal of Economic Growth 2023.
Published papers
Too big to fail and moral hazard: evidence from an epoch of unregulated commercial banking (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen). IMF Economic Review 2022.
Monopsony power and wages: Evidence from the introduction of serfdom in Denmark. (with Kathryn Gary, Mats Olsson, Cristina Radu, Battista Severgnini and Paul Sharp). The Economic Journal 2022.
Arresting the Sword of Damocles: Dating the Transition to the Post-Malthusian Era in Denmark (with Maja Uhre Pedersen, Cristina Radu and Paul Sharp). Explorations in Economic History 2022.
The 1918 Epidemic and a V-shaped Recession: Evidence from Municipal Income Data. (with Christian Møller Dahl and Casper Worm Hansen). Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2022.
To the manor born: a new level micro wage database for eighteenth century Denmark (with Cristina Radu and Paul Sharp). European Review of Economic History 2022.
Do rural school closures lead to local population decline? (with Jens Fyhn Lykke Sørensen, Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen and Torben Dall Schmidt). Journal of Rural Studies 2021.
Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries. (with Peter Juul Egedesø and Casper Worm Hansen). The Economic Journal 2020.
Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the First Community-Wide Health Experiment. (with Karen Clay, Peter Juul Egedesø, Casper Worm Hansen & Avery Calkins). Journal of Development Economics 2020.
Preaching Democracy: The Second Vatican Council and the Third Wave (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen). Journal of Comparative Economics 2019.
Agricultural productivity and economic development: The contribution of clover to structural transformation in Denmark (with Torben Dall Schmidt and Amber Naz). Journal of Economic Growth 2018. (Previous title: New crops, local soils and urbanization: clover, agricultural productivity, and the growth of Danish market towns).
The fertility transition in the US: Schooling and income (with Casper Worm Hansen and Lars Lønstrup). Macroeconomic Dynamics 2018.
Fertility and early-life mortality: Evidence from smallpox vaccination in Sweden (with Casper Worm Hansen and Philipp Ager). Journal of the European Economic Association 2018.
From open to secret ballot: vote buying and modernization (with Toke S. Aidt). Comparative Political Studies 2017.
The heavy plow and the agricultural revolution in medieval Europe (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen and Christian Volmar Skovsgaard). Journal of Development Economics 2016.
Modern gender roles and agricultural history (with Casper Worm Hansen and Christian Volmar Skovsgaard). Journal of Economic Growth 2015.
Workers of the world, unite! Franchise extensions and the threat of revolution, 1820-1938 (With Toke S. Aidt). European Economic Review 2014.
How much did China's WTO accession increase economic growth in resource-rich countries? (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Mikkel Barslund, Casper Worm Hansen and Thomas Harr). China Economic Review 2014.
Is Africa's recent growth sustainable? (with Thomas Barnebeck Andersen). International Economic Journal 2014.
Poverty and vote buying: survey-based evidence from Africa (with Mogens Kamp Justesen). Electoral Studies 2014.
Democratization and the size of government: evidence from the long 19th century (With Toke S. Aidt). Public Choice 2013.
Foreign labour and regional labour markets (with Torben Dall Schmidt). Annals of Regional Science 2013.
Social networks and regional recruitment of foreign labour (with Torben Dall Schmidt). Papers in Regional Science 2012.
Winner of the Martin Beckman annual award for the best paper published in Papers in Regional Science in 2012.
Estimating the effect of a variable in a high-dimensional linear model (with Allan H. Würtz). Econometrics Journal 2012.
Land inequality and conflict in Latin America in the 20th century (with Tony V. Sørensen). Defence and Peace Economics 2012.
Testing for cross-sectional dependence in regional panel data (with Torben Dall Schmidt). Spatial Economic Analysis 2011.
Global restrictions on the parameters of the CDES indirect utility function (with Bjarne Jensen, Jan van Daal, Paul de Boer). Journal of Economics 2011.
Testing the null of a low dimensional growth model. Empirical Economics 2010.
Rain, growth and civil war: the importance of location (with Kristian S. Gleditsch). Defence and Peace Economics 2009.
Tax structure, size of government, and the extension of the voting franchise, 1860-1938 (with Toke S. Aidt). International Tax and Public Finance 2009.
The taxman tools up: an event history study of the introduction of the personal income tax (with Toke S. Aidt). Journal of Public Economics 2009.
Can the two new aid growth models be replicated? (with Martin Paldam). Public Choice 2006.
Working papers & Work in progress
Relocating to rural cities. (with Torben D. Schmidt, Gunnar L. H. Svendsen and Jens. F. L. Sörensen).
Guilds and Growth: Evidence from the free city (with Thor Berger).
Schools and the 1918-Pandemic: Evidence from half a million death certificates and 1,298 school closures in Sweden (With Christian M. Dahl, Casper W. Hansen, Martin Karlsson and Daniel Kühnle).
Multigenerational effects of smallpox vaccination (with V. Lazuka).
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