Research

Working papers

• The Short and Long Run Dynamics of the Great Gatsby Curve

Joint with Diego Battiston, Andrei Potlogea, and Sevi Rodriguez Mora

CEPR Discussion Paper 18249

• Understanding Gender Match Effects in Higher Education: The Role of Class Size

Joint with Guido Schwerdt and Simon Wiederhold

CEP Discussion Paper 1896

Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Human Resources

Media: LSE EUROPP 

• Networks in Trade- Evidence from the Legacy of the Hanseatic League

Joint with Max Marczinek and Ferdinand Rauch     

CEPR Discussion Paper 16957

Revise and Resubmit, Journal of International Economics

• Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? The Unequal Health Effects of Workplace Digitalization

Joint with Melanie Arntz, Sebastian Findeisen, and Oliver Schlenker

CEPR Discussion Paper 18913

Media: LSE Business Review, Die Welt, SWR, MDR  

Work in Progress

• Victorian Slum Demolitions

Joint with Ran Abramitzky, Elibeth Cirilo, Yiming He, Guy Michaels, and Omry Yoresh

• Minority Bureaucrats' Networks and Career Progression: Evidence from the Chinese Maritime Customs Service

Joint with Yan Hu

Publications

• Economic Geography Aspects of the Panama Canal

            Joint with Ferdinand Rauch          

    Oxford Economic Papers, January 2023, 75 (1), 142-162

            CEPR Discussion Paper 13820

            Media: LSE USAPP Blog, Ökonomenstimme

• The Long Shadow of Slavery: The Persistence of Slave Owners in Southern Law-making

            Joint with Luna Bellani and Anselm Hager

            Journal of Economic History, March 2022, 82 (1), 250-283

            IZA Discussion Paper 13611

            Media: Centrepiece

• Of Mice and Merchants: Connectedness and the Location of Economic Activity in the Iron Age

            Joint with Jan Bakker, Jörn-Steffen Pischke, and Ferdinand Rauch

            Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2021, 103 (4): 652-665

            Media: VoxEU, quartz.com, CentrePiece

• Male-biased Demand Shocks and Women's Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Large Oil Field Discoveries

            Joint with Andrei Potlogea

            Economica, January 2021, 88 (349): 167-188 

            Media:LSE USAPP Blog, CentrePiece, LSE Business Review  

• Oil Discoveries and Education Provision in the Postbellum South

            Economics of Education Review, December 2019, 73: Article 101925           

            Media: LSE Business Review  

• Voting Behavior and Public Employment in Nazi Germany

            Journal of Economic History, March 2018, 78(1): 1-39. 

            If you're interested in the city-level public employment data that I collected for this paper, please click here. 

            Details on the variable definitions and sources can be found in the Paper's Online Appendix.