RESEARCH
Working Papers
The Message is the Message Too: National Discourse and Local Political Consequences (with Mathias Bühler)
[WP (June 2025)][CESifo WP 10959 (Feb 2024)] [Twitter]
[WP (June 2025)][CESifo WP 10959 (Feb 2024)] [Twitter]
Publications
The Long-Run Agglomeration Effects of Early Agriculture in Europe (with Nils-Petter Lagerlöf)
Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61(3): 629-651 (Winner of the Best Paper Award for Economic Inquiry 2023)
[Link (open access)] [WP] [Data] [Twitter]
Response to Gonzalez and Özak's Replication of Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences
I4R Discussion Paper Series, 2023, Institute for Replication (I4R), No. 63
[Replication] [Response]
Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade
The Economic Journal, 2022, 132(643): 953-980
[Link] [WP] [Twitter]
Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10(3): 370-402
[Link] [WP]
Population Relatedness and Cross-Country Idea Flows: Evidence from Book Translations
Journal of Economic Growth, 2018, 23(4): 367-386
[Link] [WP]
Economic Inquiry, 2023, 61(3): 629-651 (Winner of the Best Paper Award for Economic Inquiry 2023)
[Link (open access)] [WP] [Data] [Twitter]
Response to Gonzalez and Özak's Replication of Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences
I4R Discussion Paper Series, 2023, Institute for Replication (I4R), No. 63
[Replication] [Response]
Understanding Ethnolinguistic Differences: The Roles of Geography and Trade
The Economic Journal, 2022, 132(643): 953-980
[Link] [WP] [Twitter]
Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10(3): 370-402
[Link] [WP]
Population Relatedness and Cross-Country Idea Flows: Evidence from Book Translations
Journal of Economic Growth, 2018, 23(4): 367-386
[Link] [WP]
Work in Progress
Far From City Lights: Spatial Isolation and Economic Activity (with Leonardo Bonilla-Mejía & Juan S. Morales)