RESEARCH

"Internal borders and population geography in the unification of Italy" Joint work with Brian A'Hearn. [CEPR WP DP14604] [Online Appendix]
"Career Paths with a Two-Body Problem: Occupational Specialisation and Geographic Mobility" Joint work with Guillaume Wilemme. [Upjohn Institute WP 21-346]. Awarded Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Early Careeer Research Award - 2020.

"The Role of the Suffrage Movement in Mobilising Women into Politics. Lessons from the 1913 Women's Suffrage Pilgrimage." Joint work with Mona Morgan-Collins. Awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant - 2020.
"Gender Differences in reference letters" Joint work with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini. Awarded a University of Nottingham STEMM-Change EDI grant - 2019.

Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa. Joint work with Philip Roessler and Yannick Pengl. American Political Science Review, 2021, pp. 1-19. [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]

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

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.