I am a PhD student in Economics at Harvard University. My work studies questions in political economy and industrial organization through the lens of economic history. A list of research projects can be found below. I am affiliated with the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, the Center for History and Economics, the Center for International Development, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. I also co-chair the Center for European Studies seminar series “European Development in a Historical Perspective”.
My cv can be found here.
Research
Publications
The Rise of Fiscal Capacity: Administration and State Consolidation in the Holy Roman Empire (with Davide Cantoni and Cathrin Mohr) Econometrica, 92(5), pp. 1439-1472
Working Papers
Crisis and Absolutism: A Design-based Analysis of the Thirty Years’ War (with Luis Bosshart) Revise and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Identity and Institutional Change: Evidence from First Names in Germany, 1700–1850 (with Davide Cantoni and Cathrin Mohr) Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review (WP)
Hysteresis and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The ‘Ordinary Men’ of the Nazi Party (with Luis Bosshart, Max Deter, Leander Heldring, and Cathrin Mohr) (NBER WP, ungated version)
The Success of the Embedded State in England (with Leander Heldring, Davis Kedrosky, and James A. Robinson) (NBER WP)
City Directories as a Source of Historical Microdata: Progress Report (with Davide Cantoni and Mathias Bühler)
Work in Progress
Coordination and Collusion in Industrial Development (with Luis Bosshart).