RESEARCH

"Militantism and Non-Violence in the Women's Suffrage Movement" with Olivia Tsoutsoplidi. (Awarded a BA/Leverhulme Grant)
"Placement of Top Economics PhDs in the 21st Century" with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini
"Residential Security Mappings and Local Public Finances" with Sevim Kösem and Carlos van Hombeeck.

"Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women" Joint work with Mona Morgan-Collins. Accepted - British Journal of Political Science, 2025
Previous Version: CEPR DP 18641
Previous title: "Becoming Political: How Marching Suffragists Facilitated Women’s Electoral Participation in England"
Awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
Gender Difference in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market (2023) Joint work with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini. Economic Journal , 133 (655), 2676-2708. [Paper ] [Appendix]
Covered in: [Promarket] [VoxEU] [Nada es Gratis (en español)]
Awarded a University of Nottingham STEMM-Change EDI grant - 2019. Older versions: GEP 2023/02, CEPR DP 16960, IZA WP 15055.

Internal borders and population geography in the unification of Italy (2023) Joint work with Brian A'Hearn. [Online Appendix] [Replication materials] Journal of Economic History, 83(3):747-785

Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa. Joint work with Philip Roessler and Yannick Pengl. American Political Science Review, 2022, 116(1), 181-199. [Paper][Online Supplementary Materials][Replication materials][Discussed on Vox-Talks, the CEPR podcast!]

Sex and the Mission: The conflicting effects of early Christian investments on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Joint with Julia Cagé. Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, vol. 86 (3), pp. 213-257. [Missions-data][online-appendix]

The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa. Joint work with Julia Cage, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, vol. 8 (3), pp: 69-99, 2016. [Online appendix][VoxEu][Missions-data]

Evaluating the Long-Term impact of Christian Missions in The Economics of Religion, Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Publishing Co, 2023
Does it really matter how different we are? Ancestry distances and income in the United-States, with an Appendix. Forthcoming in the World Scientific Encyclopaedia of Global Migration, Robert M. Sauer (ed.), World Scientific Publishing Co.
The Devil is in the Detail: Christian Missions' Heterogeneous Effects on Development in sub-Saharan Africa. in The Long Economic and Political Shadow of History, vol. 2, Michalopoulos and Papaioannou (eds.), CEPR Press (VoxEu - Ebook), 2016. Joint work with Julia Cagé

Podcast: An economist's watching of Billy Eliott (in Spanish) for the Series "Capital y Trabajo" hosted by Santi Sánchez Pages (May 2025)
"How has deindustrialisation affected living standards in the UK?" The Economics Observatory, June 2025.
"The persistent human costs of deindustrialisation: Lessons from the collapse of the coal industry", Vox-EU piece, September 2024, with Björn Brey.
"Aprendiendo a votar: cómo las sufragistas fomentaron la participación electoral de las mujeres", March 20204 piece for "nada es gratis"
Él es brillante y ella es dedicada, piece on gender stereotyping in the economics job market for the economics blog "nada es gratis."
Stereotyping in the economics job market, VoxEU piece, February 2022. Co-written with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini.
Podcast: Politics and Ethnicity in Africa, VoxTalks podcast, October 2020.
Saving souls but hurting bodies: missions, health investments, and HIV prevalence. VoxEu, 17 March 2018, with Julia Cagé.
There is no 'case for colonialism': insights from the economic history of colonialism. Post for the Africa at LSE blog. 10 October 2017, 2017, with Yannick Dupraz.
Newspaper readership, civic attitudes, and economic development.
VoxEU, May 2014. Co-written with Julia Cagé.