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, State Capacity, and the Rise of Autocracy: 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)

City Directories as a Source of Historical Microdata: Progress Report (with Davide Cantoni and Mathias Bühler)

Work in Progress

The German Colonial Enterprise, 1897–1914

Spatial Sorting in German Cities, 1935–1975

Epidemics and Public Health Provision in Early Modern Europe (with Davide Cantoni and Maria Waldinger)