Main publications:
Epidemic mortality and redistribution of housing wealth in Leiden, 1632-68
(with Daniel Curtis and Roos van Oosten)
Explorations in Economic History, 101, 2026
Lifecycle land decumulation strategies in a seventeenth‐century rural community
(with Daniel Curtis)
Economic History Review, 78(4), 2025
Household, family, and community responses to the direct costs of epidemics
(with Daniel Curtis and Bram Hilkens)
History of the Family, 30 (3), 2025
(with Daniel Curtis)
Explorations in Economic History, 84, 2022
A Modern Rendition of a Pre-Modern Scenario: Imperfect Institutions and Obscured Vulnerabilities
(with Daniel Curtis and Bram Hilkens)
Journal for the History of Environment and Society 5, 2020
(with Erik Ansink and Bas van Bavel)
Journal of Institutional Economics 13 (1), 2017
The economics of violence in natural states
(with Erik Ansink and Bas van Bavel)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 132, 2016
Working papers and work in progress:
The emergence of government as organized violence-cum-robbery (submitted)
(with Bas van Bavel and Coen Teulings)
Dynamics of Democratization: Evidence from Municipal Suffrage Extensions
(with Bas Machielsen)
Income inequality and structural change in the Netherlands, 1850-1920
(with Auke Rijpma)
Local cultures of 'challenging the status quo'
(with Giacomo Domini)
Intergenerational wealth transmission from colonial assets
(with Amaury de Vicq and Bas Machielsen)
Other publications:
Brede welvaart hoger dan ooit maar grote verschillen tussen regio's
(with Rogier Aalders, Florine Zendijk, Gaby, Wapenaar, Otto Raspe, Bas van Bavel, Tanja van der Lippe, Auke Rijpma, Bas Spliet, Erik Stam, Chris Vlam)
RaboResearch Report, 1 July 2026
Brede welvaart groeit licht; regionale verschillen blijven bestaan
(with Florine Zendijk, Rogier Aalders, Floris Jan Sander, Otto Raspe, Bas van Bavel, Tanja van der Lippe, Auke Rijpma, Erik Stam, Chris Vlam)
RaboResearch Report, 26 June 2025