Publications

Epidemics and Urban Growth: The Impact of Cholera in Nineteenth-century Prussia (with Daniel Gallardo Albarrán), The History of the Family, 2025, 30(3). [Published paper]

The Mortality Impact of Cholera in Germany, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2025, 62(2). [Published paper] [EHES Working paper] [Data appendix] [Dataset]

Did Cholera “Force” the Reform of Urban Water Infrastructure? Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Berlin, Journal of Urban History, 2024, 51(3). [Published paper] [Positive Check blogpost] [EHES working paper]

Perks and Pitfalls of City Directories as a Micro-Geographic Data Source (with Thilo N. H. Albers), Explorations in Economic History, 2022, 101476. [Published paper] [CRC TRR 190 Discussion paper] [Github repository]

Covid-19 across European Regions: The Role of Border Controls (with Matthias Eckardt and Nikolaus Wolf), Covid Economics 42, 2020, 94-111. [Published paper] [VoxEU column] [BSE Insights column] [CEPR discussion paper]

Persistent Shocks to Urban Density: Evidence from the Berlin Air Raids, Economics Letters 168, 2018, 37-41. [Published paper]

Working papers and drafts

Private Interest in the Public Good: Cholera and the Origins of Sanitary Reform (with Daniel Gallardo Albarrán), Revise and resubmit, [CESifo Working Paper No. 12683]

Dense, Diverse and Healthy? Mixed-Income Housing and the Spread of Urban Epidemics. [Current draft]

Sanitation, Externalities and the Urban Mortality Transition.  [Current draft]

Repressing Voice, Amplifying Exit: City-Level Evidence from an Autocracy (with Max Deter and Hans Lueders)

Cholera, Inequality and Development: A Long-Term Perspective (with Daniel Gallardo Albarrán)

Estimating the shortterm impact of war on economic activity in Ukraine (with Niko Szumilo and Mihnea Constantinescu)

Geography and the formation of exclusive communities in Europe: A long run view (with Sascha O. Becker, Marvin Suesse and Nikolaus Wolf)

Dissertation thesis

Water and the Micro-Geography of the Urban Mortality Transition: Essays on 19th Century Berlin - this was my PhD thesis. You can find an extended summary here.

See also my Google Scholar and Ideas/RePEc profiles.