Urbanization and Electoral Success: Lawyers and Workers in Interwar France
with Victor Gay
Journal of Historical Political Economy, forthcoming.
Journal of Economic Growth, 29 (4), 543-583, 2024.
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.
Media coverage NEP-HIS Blog
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
Media coverage Zeeconomics Blog-illusio
with Toke S. Aidt
Journal of Economic History, 79 (3), 773-825, 2019.
with Guillaume Daudin and Hillel Rapoport
Economic Journal, 129 (620), 1618-1692, 2019.
Can public policies lower religiosity? Evidence from school choice in France, 1878-1902
with Noel D. 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).
with Noel D. Johnson & John V.C. Nye
Explorations in Economic History, 51, 77-93, 2014.
How to get the snowball rolling and extend the franchise: evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832
with Toke S. Aidt
Public Choice, 155(3-4), 229-250, 2013. (Online Appendix).
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.
with Miriam Krausz
Cliometrica, 3 (2), 141-164, 2009.
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.