Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection (with Markus Lampe, Ashwin Nair, & Kevin O’Rourke); Economic Journal, 2024, 134(657): 23-47.  |  Abstract

• Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (with Brian Beach & W. Walker Hanlon); American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14(2): 228-255.  |  Abstract

• Infant Feeding and Post-Weaning Health: Evidence from Turn-of-the-Century London (with Eric B. Schneider); Economics and Human Biology, 2021, 43: 101065.  |  Abstract

• Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing: Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19 (with John Parman), Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 79: 101381. |  Abstract  |  Media Coverage: Bloomberg (10/2020); Bloomberg (4/2021); UCI Podcast

• “The Dust Was Long in Settling”: Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl, Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78(1): 196-230.  |  Abstract  |  Media Coverage: The Economist

• Not Your Average Job: Measuring Farm Labor in Tanzania (with Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt & Amparo Palacios-López), Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 130: 160-172.  |  Abstract  |  Policy Brief: DFID/IZA GLM | LIC Programme  |  Blog Posts: Africa Can; Development Impact

• Polygamy and Child Mortality: Historical and Modern Evidence from Nigeria’s Igbo (with James Fenske), Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16(1): 97-141.  |  Abstract

• Intra-Household Labor Allocation in Colonial Nigeria (with James Fenske), Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 60: 69-92.  |  Abstract  |  Blog Post: AEHN

Working Papers

• Ordinary Life Insurance: The Best-Performing Financial Asset of the 1930s (with Gary Richardson & Mark Van Orden), NBER Working Paper #34385, 2025. |  Abstract

• Community Transmission of Financial Behavior: The Legacy of the Freedman’s Savings Bank (with Gary Richardson & Mark Van Orden), 2025; Formerly NBER Working Paper #32576, 2024. |  Abstract

• The Decline of Child Stunting in 122 Countries: A Systematic Review of Child Growth Studies Since the Nineteenth Century (with Eric B. Schneider, Juliana Jaramillo Echeverri, et al.), 2024.  |  Abstract

• Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship When Migration Matters (with Brian Beach & W. Walker Hanlon), NBER Working Paper #23507, 2017.  |  Abstract  |  Media Coverage: Wall Street Journal

Ongoing Research

• Ordinary Lives: Retirement, Savings, and Insurance in America, 1861 to 1941 (with Gary Richardson & Mark Van Orden)

• Early-Career Trajectories during the Great Depression: Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Microdata (with Gary Richardson & Mark Van Orden)  |  Abstract

• Inheriting Good Credit: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Cosigning Relationships in the Transition to Adulthood (with Asia Bento)

• How Demographics, Place, and Rules Impact Portfolio Composition: Data from the Historical Survey of Consumer Finances and Implications for the Distribution of Wealth (with Jack Liebersohn & Gary Richardson)

• Local Economic Activity and Gubernatorial Election Outcomes, 1896-2020: Evidence Using Novel Deposits Data” (with Romeo Ignacio & Gary Richardson)

• The Macroeconomy, Labor Markets, and Economic Mobility from the Civil War to Today: New High-Frequency Data on Local Economic Shocks (with Katherine Eriksson & Gary Richardson)

Other Publications

• Book review of Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid (by Sheilagh Ogilvie), Forthcoming, Journal of Economic Literature.

• Book review of Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Savings Bank (by Justene Hill Edwards), Journal of Economic History, 2025, 85(2): 608-610.

• 2023 Allan Nevins Prize Competition of the Economic History Association (Prize Session Remarks), Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84(2): 593-627.

• Health and Development, in An Economist’s Guide to Economic History (ed. Matthias Blum & Chris Colvin), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

• Human Capital Formation and the American Dust Bowl (Dissertation Summary), Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78(2): 575-610.

• Book review of Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains (by Kevin Z. Sweeney), EH.Net, 2017.

• Book review of Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World (ed. Beatrice Moring), EH.Net, 2013.

• Mobile Financial Services in Tanzania (with Lara Fleischer & Martina Song), Internal report to the Bank of Tanzania, 2012.

• Universality: Leveraging Your Brand Portfolio to Enhance Customer Experience and Harness Back-End Efficiencies (with Jon Evons & Dan German), Deloitte Internal, 2010.

• Augmented Reality and the User Experience: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Utility and Usability, Deloitte Internal, 2010.