Publications
New Media and Competition: Printing and Europe’s Transformation After Gutenberg
With Skipper Seabold
Conditionally accepted at Journal of Political Economy
Public Goods, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: Evidence from German History
With Ralf Meisenzahl
Review of Economic Studies, Volume 87, Issue 2, March 2020, Pages 959–996
Religious Competition and Reallocation: The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation
With Davide Cantoni and Noam Yuchtman
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 4, November 2018, Pages 2037–2096
Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 126, Issue 3, August 2011, Pages 1133–1172
Book Prices in Early Modern Europe: An Economic Perspective
In Shanti Graheli (ed.), Buying and Selling: The Business of Books in Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2019)
Link to chapter, link to pre-print.
The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from German History
With Ralf Meisenzahl
Historical Analysis of Legal Opinions with a Sparse Mixed-Effects Latent Variable Model
William Wang Yang, Elijah Mayfield, Suresh Naidu, and Jeremiah DIttmar
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2012, pp. 740-749. Paper.
Research in Progress
Political Competition and Economic Divergence: European Development Before and After the Black Death
With Luis Bosshart
The Economic Origins of Modern Science
The Emergence of Zipf’s Law (revise and resubmit at Explorations in Economic History)
Contested Property Rights: Runaway Slaves in the Antebellum United States
With Suresh Naidu