Working papers‍ ‍

Wages and the Great War: Evidence from the Largest Draft Lottery in History, with Bruno Caprettini and Hans-Joachim Voth

Molded Culture: The Symbolic Content of Ceramics and Cultural Identity in Pre-Industrial Peru
[PDF] (September 2025), with Gonzalo González-Melo and Mateo Uribe-Castro

Hierarchy Differences and the Social Foundations of State Capacity
[PDF] (July 2024), with Marta Reynal-Querol and Hans-Joachim Voth


Publications

Ethnic Diversity, Historical Economic Exchange, and Development: Evidence from Andean Peru, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2026) 18 (2): 229–65 [PDF][Replication Files][VoxDev column][Spanish summary 1, 2]

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 [PDF][Replication Files][Teaching Slides][VoxDev column]