Publications

• “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

• Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (with Brian Beach & W. Walker Hanlon), 2019; Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.  |  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

• Infant Feeding and Cohort Health: Evidence from the London Foundling Hospital (with Eric B. Schneider), CEPR Discussion Paper #12165, 2017.  |  Abstract

Ongoing Research

• Labor Market Scarring in the Very Long Run: Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Microdata (with Katherine Eriksson & Gary Richardson)  |  Abstract

• The Impact of US Interwar Protection (with Markus Lampe & Kevin O’Rourke)

• Deportation Risk, Public Health, & Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the English Poor Law (with Brian Beach & W. Walker Hanlon)  |  Abstract

• Sewage Infrastructure, Labor Markets, and Inequality in 19th Century London (with Myra Mohnen)  |  Abstract

Other Publications

• 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.