Articles

Labor Scarcity, Technology Adoption and Innovation: Evidence from the Cholera Pandemics in 19th Century France

          Journal of Economic Growth, forthcoming.


The Impact of Industrialization on Secondary Schooling during the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from 19th Century France

Journal of Population Economics, 36 (4), 2006-2023, 2023.


Technology-Skill Complementarity in Early Phases of Industrialization, with Oded Galor

Economic Journal, 132 (642), 618-643, 2022.  

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The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution, with Theresa Finley & Noel D. Johnson

Journal of Law and Economics, 4 (2), 233-267, 2021.

Media coverage Quartz Podcast on the paper at Economics Detective with my co-author Noel Johnson 

    

      Flowers of Evil? Industrialization and Long Run Development, with Oded Galor

                Journal of Monetary Economics, 117, 108-128, 2021

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     What Motivates an Oligarchic Elite to Democratize? Evidence from the Roll Call Vote on the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt

               Journal of Economic History, 79 (3), 773-825, 2019.


     Can internal migration foster the convergence in regional fertility rates?  Evidence from nineteenth century France, with G. Daudin and H. Rapoport

            Economic Journal, 129 (620), 1618-1692, 2019.


     Can public policies lower religiosity? Evidence from school choice in France, 1878-1902, with Noel Johnson.

           Economic History Review, 69 (3), 915-944, 2016.


     The political consequences of income shocks: explaining the consolidation of democracy in France.

          Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (1), 57-82, 2016.


      Democratization under the threat of revolution: evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt.

          Econometrica, 83 (2), 505-547, 2015. (Supplementary Material).


    Religious decline in the 20th century West: testing alternative explanations, with Laurence R. Iannaccone

      Public Choice, 159 (3), 385-414, 2014. (Online Appendix).


    From internal taxes to national regulation: evidence from a French wine tax reform at the turn of the twentieth century, with Noel Johnson & John Nye.

        Explorations in Economic History, 51, 77-93, 2014.


  How to get the snowball rolling and extend the francise: evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832, with Toke S. Aidt.

     Public Choice, 155(3-4), 229-250, 2013. (Online Appendices & Working Paper).


 Does the leader's ethnicity matter? Ethnic favoritism, education and health in sub-Saharan Africa, with Ilia Rainer.

     American Political Science Review, 106(2), 294-325, 2012.


 Judicial independence and the validity of controverted elections.

    American Law and Economics Review, 12(2), 394-422, 2010.


 Economic growth and the separation of Church and State: the French case.

    Economic Inquiry, 48 (4), 841-859, 2010.


 Institutional changes, wars and stock market risk: evidence from the Israeli stock market from 1945 to 1960, with Miriam Krausz.

     Cliometrica, 3 (2), 141-164, 2009.


 Judicial independence under a divided polity: a study of the rulings of the French Constitutional Court, 1959-2006

     Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 25 (1), 262-282, 2009.


 Why separate monetary policy from banking supervision?, with Miriam Krausz.

     Journal of Comparative Economics, 36 (3), 388-411, 2008.


 Campaign resources and electoral success: evidence from the 2002 French parliamentary elections, with Gil Epstein.

     Public Choice, 131 (3-4), 469-489, 2007.


 Forecasting exchange rates: a robust regression approach, with Arie Preminger

     International Journal of Forecasting 23, 71-84, 2007.


 Liquidity risk and bank portfolio allocation, with Miriam Krausz.

    International Review of Economics and Finance, 16 (1), 60-77, 2007.


 Public safety and the moral dilemma in the defence against terror, with Arye L. Hillman and Miriam Krausz.

     Defence and Peace Economics 16 (5), 347-364,  2005.


 Why did a majority of French voters reject the European Constitution?

    European Journal of Political Economy, 21 (4), 1071-1076, December 2005.