Research

Published:

"The Economic Origins of Government" (With Bob Allen and Leander Heldring)

American Economic Review, 113(10) (2023): 2507-45

Results Appendix | Data Appendix | Atlas Appendix

Economist | Econimate

"The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya"

Economic History Review, 76(1) (2023): 31-59

Replication Files | Online Appendix

Winner of the TS Ashton Prize for best paper in the EHR

"The Long-term Impact of Italian Colonial Roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935-2015"

Journal of Economic Geography, 22(1) (2022): 181-214

Replication Files | Online Appendix

"Towards an economic history of Italian colonialism" 

Rivista di Storia Economica, 36(3) (2020): 299-343

Working Papers:

"The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy" (With Michela Giorcelli)

Working paper

"Leaving the “Fourth Shore”: The effect of Italian farmers’ expulsions from post-colonial Libya, 1930-2005"

Working paper

"Can Economic Sanctions Work in a Smaller Conflict? The Case of the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36" (With Jari Eloranta and Elina Kuorelhati)

Working paper/Book chapter - Forthcoming in Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688

"Italian colonialism"

Working paper/Book chapter - Forthcoming in the Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism

Work in Progress:

"The Negus and the monks: Monasteries, state formation and long-run development in Ethiopia, 1270-2020" (With Andres Martignano)

"The Dawn of Inequality" (With Gina Eckhoff and Leander Heldring)

"Uncertainty and cooperation: evidence from colonial India" (With Maanik Nath)