Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston’s Charter Schools. Joint with Sarah Cohodes. Accepted at Review of Economics and Statistics.
‘Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists’: How Family Immigration History Shapes Immigration Policy Making. Joint with Maxwell Palmer and Benjamin Schneer. 2025. Quarterly Journal of Economics 140(3):2381-2457.
Examining the Role of Training Data for Supervised Methods of Automated Record Linkage: Lessons for Best Practice in Economic History. 2025. Joint with Jonas Helgertz and Joseph Price. Explorations in Economic History 96:101656.
Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to the Mechanization of Telephone Operation. 2024. Joint with Daniel Gross. Quarterly Journal of Economics 139(3):1879-1939.
How the Other Half Died: Immigration and Mortality in US Cities. 2024. Joint with Philipp Ager, Casper Worm Hansen, and Huiren Tan. Review of Economic Studies 91(1):1-44.
Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation: Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century. 2024. Joint with Daniel Gross. Management Science 70(12):8520-8540.
Racial Inequality in the Prime of Life: Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1906-1933. 2023. Joint with Aja Antoine-Jones, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Christopher Muller, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. Social Science History 47(3):491-504.
Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman’s March, 1850-1920. 2022. Joint with James Lee and Filippo Mezzanotti. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14(4):301-42.
Racial Disparities in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in United States Cities. 2022. Joint with Martin Eiermann, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Jonas Helgertz, Elaine Hernandez, and Courtney E. Boen. Demography 59(5):1953-1979.
1918 Every Year: Racial Inequality in Infectious Mortality, 1906–1942. 2022. Joint with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Christopher Muller, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings 112:199-204.
Automated Linking of Historical Data. 2021. Joint with Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Katherine Eriksson, and Santiago Perez. Journal of Economic Literature 59(3):865-918.
Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data. 2021. Joint with Jacob Brown, Ryan Enos, and Soumyajit Mazumder. Science Advances 7(24).
The Return to Education in the Mid-20th Century: Evidence from Twins. 2020. Joint with Huiren Tan. Journal of Economic History 80(4):1101-1142.
Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900–1948. 2019. Joint with Christopher Muller and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. Demography 56(4):1371-1388.
Multiple Measures of Historical Intergenerational Mobility: Iowa 1915 to 1940. 2018. Economic Journal 128(612):F446-F481.
Tenancy, Marriage, and the Boll Weevil Infestation, 1892-1930. 2017. Joint with Deirdre Bloome and Christopher Muller. Demography 54(3):1029-1049.
Racial inequality in the annual risk of Tuberculosis infection in the United States, 1910-1933. 2017. Joint with Jon Zelner and Christopher Muller. Epidemiology and Infection 145(9):1797-1840.
The Majority-Party Disadvantage: Revising Theories of Legislative Organization. 2017. Joint with Alexander Fouirnaies and Andrew B. Hall. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 12(3):269-300.
Lead Exposure and Violent Crime in the Early Twentieth Century. 2016. Joint with Christopher Muller. Explorations in Economic History 62:51-86.
How Legislators Respond To Localized Economic Shocks. 2015. Joint with Andrew B. Hall. Journal of Politics 77(4):1012-1030.
The Vicious Cycle: Fundraising and Perceived Viability in US Presidential Primaries. 2013. Joint with Cameron A. Shelton. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 8(1):1-40.
Intergenerational Mobility during the Great Depression
Automated Census Record Linking: A Machine Learning Approach
From the Bargaining Table to the Ballot Box: Political Effects of Right to Work Laws. Joint with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Vanessa Williamson.
Who Becomes a Member of Congress? Evidence From De-Anonymized Census Data. Joint with Daniel M. Thompson, Andrew B. Hall, and Jesse Yoder.
When Coercive Economies Fail: The Political Economy of the US South After the Boll Weevil. Joint with Soumyajit Mazumder and Cory Smith.
After the Burning: The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Joint with Alex Albright, Jeremy A. Cook, Laura Kincaide, Jason Long, and Nathan Nunn.
Germ Theory at Home: The Role of Private Action in Reducing Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition. Joint with Lauren Hoehn-Velasco and Sophie Li.
Inequality and the Safety Net in American Cities Throughout the Income Distribution, 1929-1940. Joint with Price Fishback and Keoka Grayson. 2022. In R. Chetty, J. Friedman, J. Gornick, B. Johnson, and A. Kennickell, eds. Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Health in Historical Political Economy. 2022. In J. Jenkins and J. Rubin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Women’s Suffrage and Intergenerational Mobility
Information and Investment: Impacts of the Introduction of Rural Free Delivery. Joint with Martin Rotemberg.
How High-Income Neighborhoods Receive More Service from Municipal Government: Evidence from City Administrative Data. Joint with Andrew B. Hall.