RESEARCH

"Stereotyping in Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence and Consequences" Joint work with Markus Eberhardt, Giovanni Facchini, Anna Hochleitner, and Fabio Tufano
"Placement of Top Economics PhDs in the 21st Century" with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini
"Militantism and Non-Violence in the Women's Suffrage Movement" with Olivia Tsoutsoplidi.
"Residential Security Mappings and Local Public Finances" with Sevim Kösem and Carlos van Hombeeck.

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