RESEARCH

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, special issue on the Economics of Religion, forthcoming. [Missions-data][online-appendix]
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 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]
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

"Political unification and geographic economic disparities in Italy 1861-71" Joint work with Brian A'Hearn. Preliminary draft.
"The Political Economy of Ethnicity in Africa" Joint work with Philip Roessler and Yannick Pengl. Public Draft coming soon. Provisional draft available upon request

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.