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Working Papers

2023

1. Collaboration and Connectivity: Historical Evidence from Patent Records
   Working Papers in Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics View citations (1)

2020

2. Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics View citations (6)

2018

3. American geography of opportunity reveals European origins
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science

2016

4. Elites and the Expansion of Education in 19th-century Sweden
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (2)
5. Structural Transformation in the OECD: Digitalisation, Deindustrialisation and the Future of Work
   OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, OECD Publishing View citations (20)

2014

6. Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden
   Lund Papers in Economic History, Lund University, Department of Economic History View citations (5)
   Also in Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2013) View citations (16)
   See also Journal Article Locomotives of local growth: The short- and long-term impact of railroads in Sweden, Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (84) (2017)

Journal Articles

2019

1. Adopting a new technology: potatoes and population growth in the periphery
   Economic History Review, 2019, 72, (3), 869-896 View citations (2)
2. Elites and the expansion of education in nineteenth‐century Sweden
   Economic History Review, 2019, 72, (3), 897-924 View citations (9)
3. Railroads and Rural Industrialization: evidence from a Historical Policy Experiment
   Explorations in Economic History, 2019, 74, (C) View citations (20)
4. Uber happy? Work and well-being in the 'Gig Economy'
   Economic Policy, 2019, 34, (99), 429-477 View citations (7)

2018

5. Drivers of disruption? Estimating the Uber effect
   European Economic Review, 2018, 110, (C), 197-210 View citations (55)
6. Places of Persistence: Slavery and the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
   Demography, 2018, 55, (4), 1547-1565 View citations (13)
7. Political machinery: did robots swing the 2016 US presidential election?
   Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2018, 34, (3), 418-442 View citations (51)

2017

8. Industrial renewal in the 21st century: evidence from US cities
   Regional Studies, 2017, 51, (3), 404-413 View citations (16)
9. Locomotives of local growth: The short- and long-term impact of railroads in Sweden
   Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 98, (C), 124-138 View citations (84)
   See also Working Paper Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden, Lund Papers in Economic History (2014) View citations (5) (2014)
10. REGIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL DYNAMISM AND NONCOMPETE CLAUSES: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT
    Journal of Regional Science, 2017, 57, (4), 655-668

2016

11. Did the Computer Revolution shift the fortunes of U.S. cities? Technology shocks and the geography of new jobs
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, (C), 38-45 View citations (27)