Center for Economic History

Efraim Benmelech

• “The Determinants of The Chinese Household Savings Rate”, with Scott Baker, Zhishu Yang, and Qi Zhang (2023)
• “The Resilience of the U.S. Corporate Bond Market During Financial  Crises”, with Bo Becker (2021)
•  “The Determinants of Fiscal and Monetary Policies During the Covid-19 Crisis”, with Nitzan Tzur-Ilan (2020)

Nicola Bianchi

• “Countries for Old Men: An Analysis of the Age Wage Gap”, with Matteo Paradisi 
• “One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap”, with Jaime Arellano-Bover, Salvatore Lattanzio, and Matteo Paradisi

Mario Cannella

• “Electoral Effects of U.S. Soft Power: Evidence from Hollywood Movies in Cold War Italy” with Matteo Magnaricotte (2023)
• “The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation,” with Alexey Makarin and Ricardo Pique (2020)

Bruno Caprettini

• “From Welfare to Warfare: New Deal Spending and Patriotism during World War II” (2020)
• “The Electoral Impact of Wealth Redistribution: Evidence from the Italian Land Reform” (2019)

Lou Cain

• “Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929,” with Elyce Rotella (2020)
• “Intra-Urban Health Disparities: Survival and Aging in the Wards of 19th-Century American Cities,” with Sok Chul Hong (2018)

Quoc-Anh Do

• “Power, Scrutiny, and Congressmen’s Favoritism for Friends’ Firms”, with Yen-Teik Lee, Bang D. Nguyen, and Kieu-Trang Nguyen (2021)
• “J’Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the time of the Dreyfus Affair,” with Roberto Galbiati, Benjamin Marx, and Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano (2021)
• “Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians”, with Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, and Yves Zenou (2020)
• “Emperors without Scepters: Early Colonial Leaders’ Personality and Civil Conflicts”, with Sacha Dray, Elise Huillery, and Jean-Luis Keene (2020)

Carola Frydman

• “The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets”, with Asaf Bernstein and Eric Hilt (2023)
• “A Real Great Compression: Inflation and Inequality in the 1940s”, with Raven Molloy
• “The Birth of Finance Capitalism in the United States: Securities Underwriters on Corporate Boards, 1880-1920”, with Eric Hilt and Lauren Mostrom

Leander Heldring

• “Bureaucracy as a tool for politicians: evidence from Weimar and Nazi Germany” (2020)
• “Institutional Adaptation to Environmental Change,” with Mattia C. Bertazzini and Robert C. Allen (2020)
• “The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries,” with James A. Robinson and Sebastian Vollmer (2020)

Riccardo Marchingiglio

• “The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum-Wage Legislation,” with Michael Poyker (2021)
• “Local Corruption and Misreported Income: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit”, with Enrico Berkes (2017)

Filippo Mezzanotti

• “Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment”, with Tim Simcoe (2023)
• “Innovation and Appropriability: Revisiting the Role of Intellectual Property”, with Tim Simcoe (2023)
• “Technology Adoption and Career Concerns: Evidence from the Adoption of Digital Technology in Motion Pictures”, with Grant Goehring and S. Abraham Ravid (2023)
• “Bank Distress and Manufacturing: Evidence from the Great Depression”, with James Lee (2017)

Joel Mokyr

• “The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and path dependence in Britain’s Industrialization” with Assaf Sarid and Karine van der Beek (2020)
• “The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution” with Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (2020)
• “Attitudes, Aptitudes, and the Roots of the Great Enrichment” (2019)

Jacopo Ponticelli

• “Information Frictions and Take-up of Government Credit Programs”, with Apoorv Gupta and Andrea Tesei (2023)
• “Eclipses and the Memory of Revolutions: Evidence from China,” with Meng Miao and Yi Shao (2023)
• “The Effects of Climate Change on Labor and Capital Reallocation”, with Christoph Albert and Paula Bustos (2022)
• “Industrialization without Innovation”, with Paula Bustos, Juanma Castro Vincenzi , and Joan Monras (2022)

Nancy Qian

• “The Causes of the Ukrainian Famine”, with Andrei Markevich and Natalya Naumenko (2023)
• “The Long-run Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act”, with Joe Long, Carlo Medici and Macro Tabellini (2023)
• “The Political-Economic Determinants of Nuclear Energy: Evidence from Chernobyl”,  with Alexey Makarin and Shaoda Wang (2022)
• “Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and WWII U.S. Military Enlistment”, with Marco Tabellini (2021)

Michele Rosenberg

• “Slavocracy: Elite Capture and the Support for Slavery”, with Federico Masera
• “Agricultural Modernization and Land Conflict”, with Stefano Falcone
• “Factory Location: Resistance to Technology Adoption and Local Institutions”, with Federico Curci
• “The Power of Narratives: Anti-Black Attitudes and Violence in the US South”, (with Federico Masera, and Sarah Walker) 
• “External Players in the Political Economy of Natural Resources”

Edoardo Teso

• ”Politics at Work”, with Emanuele Colonnelli and Valdemar Pinho Neto
• ”State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State over 100 Years”, with Nicola Mastrorocco