Working papers
Molded Culture: The Symbolic Content of Ceramics and Cultural Identity in Pre-Industrial Peru (September 2025), with Gonzalo González-Melo and Mateo Uribe-Castro
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Hierarchy Differences and the Social Foundations of State Capacity (July 2024), with Marta Reynal-Querol and Hans-Joachim Voth
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Publications
Ethnic Diversity, Historical Economic Exchange, and Development: Evidence from Andean Peru (December 2024), Forthcoming at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
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Accountability, Political Capture, and Selection into Politics: Evidence from Peruvian Municipalities, with Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta, The Review of Economics and Statistics (2021) 103 (2): 397–411
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Work in-progress
Cultural Distance and the Organization of Production: Evidence from the Golden Age of Andean Ceramics, with Benjamín Oteíza.
Generations of Change: Globalization and Elite Entrenchment in the Americas over 500 Years, with Luigi Pascali, Marta Reynal-Querol, and Marco Tabellini
Pots and Kings: Storage and the Emergence of the State, with Luigi Pascali