Working Papers & Research
Efraim Benmelech
- “The Decline of Secured Debt,” with Nitish Kumar and Raghuram Rajan (2019)
Nicola Bianchi
- “Career Spillovers in Internal Labor Markets,” with Giulia Bovini, Jin Li, Matteo Paradisi, and Michael Powell (2020)
- “The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets,” with Michela Giorcelli and Enrica Maria Martino (2020)
- “Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development: The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy,” with Michela Giorcelli (2019)
- “The Effects of Computer-Assisted Learning on Students’ Long-Term Development,” with Yi Lu and Hong Song (2019)
- “Not All Management Training Is Created Equal: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program,” with Michela Giorcelli (2019)
Mario Cannella
- “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)
Jamie Daubenspeck
- “Causes of Low North-South Migration Before the Civil War” (2020)
- “The Aswan Dam’s Effect on Literacy and Mortality in Colonial Egypt” (2019)
- “Heterogeneous Effects of Foreign Infrastructure Investment on Steam Power Adoption in Colonial Egypt” (2019)
Quoc-Anh Do
- “J’Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the time of the Dreyfus Affair,” with Roberto Galbiati, Benjamin Marx, and Miguel A. Ortiz Serrano (2020)
Carola Frydman
- “Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley,” with Richard B. Baker and Eric Hilt (2020)
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 (2020)
Filippo Mezzanotti
- “Crisis Innovation,” with Tania Babina and Asaf Bernstein (2020)
- “Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920,” with James J. Feigenbaum and James Lee (2019)
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
- “Eclipses and the Memory of Revolutions: Evidence from China,” with Meng Miao and Yi Shao (2020)
Nancy Qian
- “Aid Crowd-Out: The Effect of NGOs on Government-Provided Public Services,” with Erika Deserranno and Aisha Nansamba (2020)
- “Choosing Racial Identity in the United States, 1880-1940,” with Ricardo Dahis and Emily Nix (2020)
- “Discrimination, Disenfranchisement and WWII U.S. Military Enlistment,” with Marco Tabellini (2020)
- “The Great Soviet Famine, 1932-33,” with Andrei Markevich and Natalya Naumenko (2020)
- “The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900,” with Murat Iyigun and Nathan Nunn (2017)
Michele Rosenberg
- “Tell Me What You Grow and I’ll Tell You What You Think: Westward Expansion and the Politics of Slavery in the US South,” with Federico Masera (2020)
Edoardo Teso
- “Economic Recessions and Congressional Preferences for Redistribution,” with Maria Carreri (2020)