Peer-Reviewed Publications
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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Intra-Household Labor Allocation in Colonial Nigeria (with James Fenske), Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 60: 69-92. | Abstract | Blog Post: AEHN
Working Papers
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Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection (with Markus Lampe, Ashwin Nair, & Kevin O’Rourke), NBER Working Paper #27178, 2021; Revisions Requested, Economic Journal. | Abstract
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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
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Labor Market Scarring in the Very Long Run: Evidence from Large-Scale Longitudinal Microdata (with Katherine Eriksson & Gary Richardson) | Abstract
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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)
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Explaining Black Socioeconomic Mobility After the Great Depression (with Katherine Eriksson & Gary Richardson)
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The Impact of US Interwar Protection (with Markus Lampe & Kevin O’Rourke)
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Sewage Infrastructure, Labor Markets, and Inequality in 19th Century London (with Myra Mohnen) | Abstract
Other Publications
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Health and Development, in An Economist’s Guide to Economic History (ed. Matthias Blum & Chris Colvin), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
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Human Capital Formation and the American Dust Bowl (Dissertation Summary), Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78(2): 575-610.
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Book review of Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains (by Kevin Z. Sweeney), EH.Net, 2017.
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Book review of Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World (ed. Beatrice Moring), EH.Net, 2013.
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Mobile Financial Services in Tanzania (with Lara Fleischer & Martina Song), Internal report to the Bank of Tanzania, 2012.
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Universality: Leveraging Your Brand Portfolio to Enhance Customer Experience and Harness Back-End Efficiencies (with Jon Evons & Dan German), Deloitte Internal, 2010.
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Augmented Reality and the User Experience: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Utility and Usability, Deloitte Internal, 2010.