Publications

• Polygamy and Child Mortality: Historical and Modern Evidence from Nigeria’s Igbo (with James Fenske), Forthcoming, Review of Economics of the Household.  |  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

• 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

• Not Your Average Job: Measuring Farm Labor in Tanzania (with Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt & Amparo Palacios-López), World Bank Policy Research Working Paper #7773, 2016.   |  Abstract  |  Policy Brief: DFID/IZA GLM | LIC Programme  |  Blog Posts: Africa Can; Development Impact  | Revision requested, Journal of Development Economics

• “The Dust Was Long in Settling”: Human Capital and the Lasting Impact of the American Dust Bowl, University of Oxford Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History #129, 2014.  |  Abstract  |  Latest (3/2017) Draft Available Here  |  Older (4/2014) Oxford Discussion Papers Version Available Here  |  Media Coverage: The Economist  |  Revision requested, Journal of Economic History

Ongoing Research

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

• Agricultural Labor Productivity: Are Small-Holder Farmers Inefficient or Do We Overestimate Their Labor Input? (with Kathleen Beegle, Joachim De Weerdt & Amparo Palacios-López)  |  Abstract

• The Gender Parity Database: A State-by-State Analysis of American Women’s Rights and Wellbeing, 1870-1970 (with Diana Greenwald)  |  Abstract

Other Publications

• 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.