Published Papers
Efraim Benmelech
- “Financial Frictions and Employment during the Great Depression,” with Carola Frydman and Dimitris Papanikolaou in Journal of Financial Economics (2019)
- “Credit Market Freezes,” with Nittai K. Bergman, in the National Bureau of Economic Research (2018)
- “The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century,” with Tobias J. Moskowitz, in The Journal of Finance (2010)
Nicola Bianchi
- “The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in University Majors,” in Journal of Labor Economics (2019)
- “Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees,” with Michela Giorcelli, in Journal of the European Economic Association (2019)
- “Compulsory Licensing and Innovation. Historical Evidence From German Patents After WWI,” with Petra Moser and Joerg Baten, in Journal of Development Economics (2017)
Lou Cain
- “Measuring Slavery in 2016 Dollars,” with Samuel H. Williamson (2020)
- “Defining Measures of Worth, Most are better than the CPI,” with Samuel H. Williamson (2020)
- “Services in American Economic History,” with Stephen Broadberry and Thomas Weiss, in The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History (2018)
- “Health, Disease and Sanitation in American Economic History,” with Hoyt Bleakley and Sok Chul Hong, in the Oxford Handbook of American Economic History (2018)
- “Introduction,” with Price Fishback and Paul Rhode, in the Oxford Handbook of American Economic History (2018)
- “A Century of Environmental Legislation,” with Brooks Kaiser, in Research in Economic History, volume 32 (2016)
Quoc-Anh Do
- “Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance,” with Filipe R. Campante and Bernardo Guimaraes, in American Economic Journal (2019)
- “Capital Cities, Conflict, and Misgovernance: Online Appendix,” with Filipe R. Campante and Bernardo Guimaraes
Matthias Doepke
- “Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in The Preindustrial Economy,” with David de la Croix and Joel Mokyr, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2018)
- “Money as a Unit of Account,“ with Martin Schneider, in Econometrica (2017)
- “The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis,” with Moshe Hazan and Yishay D. Maoz, in the Review of Economic Studies (2015)
Joseph Ferrie
- “Do Grandparents Matter? Multigenerational Mobility in the U.S., 1940-2015,” with Catherine Massey and Jonathan Rothbaum, forthcoming in Journal of Labor Economics (2020)
- “Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s,” with Xi Song, Catherine G. Massey, Karen A. Rolf, Jonathan L. Rothbaum, and Yu Xie in PNAS (2020)
Carola Frydman
- “Financial frictions and employment during the Great Depression,” with Efraim Benmelech and Dimitris Papanikolaou, in Journal of Financial Economics (2019)
- “In search of ideas: Technological innovation and executive pay inequality,” with Dimitris Papanikolaou, in Journal of Financial Economics (2018)
- “Investment Banks as Corporate Monitors in the Early Twentieth Century United States,” with Eric Hilt, in American Economic Review (2017)
- “Economic Effects of Runs on Early “Shadow Banks”: Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907,” with Eric Hilt and Lily Y. Zhou, in Journal of Political Economy (2015)
- “Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936–2005,” withRaven E. Saks in The Review of Financial Studies (2010)
Robert Gordon
- “Transatlantic Technologies: The Role of ICT in the Evolution of Productivity Growth in the U.S. and Europe,” with Hassan Sayed, in International Productivity Monitor (2020)
- “The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown: Europe Chasing the American Frontier,” with Hassan Sayed, in International Productivity Monitor (2019)
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (2017)
Laura Hein
- Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after World War II, Bloomsbury Press and a Weatherhead Institute Imprint book (2018)
- “A Roundtable on Grant Madsen, Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II,” in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review (2018)
- “Raising Taxes for Democracy: The Japanese Policy Environment of the Shoup Mission,” with Mark Metzler, in The Shoup Mission to Japan: A History of Transnational Tax Reform (2013)
Leander Heldring
- “Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa,” in The Review of Economic Studies (2020)
- “The Origins of Violence in Rwanda,” in National Bureau of Economic Research (2012)
Ralf Meisenzahl
- “Public Goods Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth: Evidence from German History,” with Jeremiah E. Ditmar, in the Review of Economic Studies (2020)
- “Organization Matters: Trade Union Behavior during Peace and War,” in the Journal of Comparative Economics (2015)
Joel Mokyr
- “Could Artisans Have Caused the Industrial Revolution?,” with Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (2020)
- “Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe” (2019)
- “The Past and the Future of Innovation: Some Lessons from Economic History” in Explorations in Economic History (2018)
Jacopo Ponticelli
- “Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008,” with Joachim Voth, in Journal of Comparative Economics (2020)
Nancy Qian
- “Immigrants and the Making of America,” with Nathan Nunn and Sandra Sequeira, in The Review of Economic Studies (2020)
- “On the Road: Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China,” with Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, in The Journal of Development Economics (2019)
Taco Terpstra
- “Roman technological progress in comparative context: The Roman Empire, Medieval Europe and Imperial China” in Explorations in Economic History (2020)
- “Introduction,” in Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean (2019)
- “Neo-Institutionalism in Ancient Economic History: The Road Ahead” in A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics (2018)
Edoardo Teso
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“The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles: Evidence from the Transatlantic Slave Trade” in The Journal of the European Economic Association (2019)