[Working Papers]
Economic Identities and the Historical Roots of Climate Change Attitudes
POLECONUK 2024 Best Graduate Paper Award [New, submitted version coming soon (finally)]
Science under Inquisition: The allocation of talent in early modern Europe appendix (with Francesco Drago, Roberto Galbiati & Giulio Zanella)
CEPR Discussion Paper #17644 [Submitted]
Looking Backward: Long-term Religious-Service Attendance in 66 Countries (with Robert Barro & Larry Iannaccone)
NBER Working Paper #34060 [Reject & Resubmit QJE]
[Publications]
It Takes Money to Make MPs: Evidence from 160 years of British Campaign Spending appendix (with Julia Cagé)
Journal of Economic History, Volume 85, Dec. 2025.
The Heterogeneous Price of a Vote: Evidence from Multiparty Systems, 1993-2017 (with Yasmine Bekkouche and Julia Cagé)
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 206, Feb. 2022.
[Selected Work in Progress]
Poisoned Trust: the Consequences of the Glyposhate Scandal (with Eleonora Alabrese & Carlo Schwarz)
From Nuclear Distrust to Renewables Endorsement: the Political Economy of Germany's Energy Transition (with Hélène Benveniste)
Parties & the Rising Demand for Representation: 100 years of Political Selection in the U.K. (with Julia Cagé)