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Working Papers

2024

1. How Successful Public Health Interventions Fail: Regulating Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2024)
2. Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2024)

2022

3. A Penny for Your Thoughts
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2022)
4. Analyzing the Agenda of the U.K. Parliament Over the Long Run
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2022)
5. Historical Newspaper Data: A Researcher's Guide and Toolkit
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (7)
6. The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (9)

2020

7. History and Urban Economics
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (10)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2020) View citations (10)
   See also Journal Article History and urban economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier (2022) (2022)
8. Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2021) View citations (7) (2021)

2019

9. Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
10. Spillover Effects of Intellectual Property Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Spillover Effects of Intellectual Property Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2022) (2022)

2018

11. Can Migration Make Deadly Recessions Look Healthy? Evidence From Large-scale Linked Microdata
    Working Papers, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics
12. Coal Smoke, City Growth, and the Cost of the Industrial Revolution
    Working Papers, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Coal Smoke, City Growth, and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution, The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (2020) View citations (34) (2020)
13. London Fog: A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866-1965
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
    Also in Working Papers, Economic History Society (2018) View citations (13)
    See also Journal Article London Fog: A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866–1965, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2024) View citations (1) (2024)

2017

14. Dynamic Comparative Advantage in International Shipbuilding: The Transition from Wood to Steel
    2017 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (2)
15. Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)

2016

16. Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)

2015

17. Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
18. Temporary Shocks and Persistent Effects in the Urban System: Evidence from British Cities after the U.S. Civil War
    2015 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (4)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2014) View citations (7)

2014

19. Agglomeration: A Dynamic Approach
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)

Journal Articles

2024

1. London Fog: A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866–1965
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, (4), 910-923 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper London Fog: A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866-1965, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (12) (2018)

2023

2. Culture and the Historical Fertility Transition
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2023, 90, (4), 1669-1700 View citations (8)
3. Historical newspaper data: A researcher’s guide
   Explorations in Economic History, 2023, 90, (C)

2022

4. History and urban economics
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 94, (C)
   See also Working Paper History and Urban Economics, CEPR Discussion Papers (2020) View citations (10) (2020)
5. Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14, (2), 228-55 View citations (6)
6. Spillover Effects of Intellectual Property Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry
   The Economic Journal, 2022, 132, (645), 1824-1851
   See also Working Paper Spillover Effects of Intellectual Property Protection in the Interwar Aircraft Industry, NBER Working Papers (2019) (2019)

2021

7. Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965
   The Journal of Economic History, 2021, 81, (1), 40-80 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (1) (2020)

2020

8. Coal Smoke, City Growth, and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
   The Economic Journal, 2020, 130, (626), 462-488 View citations (34)
   See also Working Paper Coal Smoke, City Growth, and the Cost of the Industrial Revolution, Working Papers (2018) (2018)
9. The Persistent Effect of Temporary Input Cost Advantages in Shipbuilding, 1850 to 1911
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, (6), 3173-3209 View citations (6)

2018

10. Coal Smoke and Mortality in an Early Industrial Economy
    Economic Journal, 2018, 128, (615), 2652-2675 View citations (61)
11. Skilled Immigrants and American Industrialization: Lessons from Newport News Shipyard
    Business History Review, 2018, 92, (4), 605-632

2017

12. Agglomeration: A long-run panel data approach
    Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 99, (C), 1-14 View citations (29)
13. Temporary Shocks and Persistent Effects in Urban Economies: Evidence from British Cities after the U.S. Civil War
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99, (1), 67-79 View citations (44)

2016

14. The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection. By Werner Troesken. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. vii, 237. $40.00, cloth
    The Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76, (4), 1240-1242

2015

15. Killer Cities: Past and Present
    American Economic Review, 2015, 105, (5), 570-75 View citations (18)
16. Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change
    Econometrica, 2015, 83, 67-100 View citations (86)

2014

17. Do Better Monitoring Institutions Increase Leadership Quality in Community Organizations? Evidence from Uganda
    American Journal of Political Science, 2014, 58, (3), 669-686 View citations (11)