I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. My research explores how culture and institutions shape long-run development. My work has been featured in media outlets such as The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Guardian, El Mundo, and Big Think, and I am a recipient of an Emergent Ventures grant.
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The Cultural Origins of the Demographic Transition in France — Forthcoming, Economic Journal · Interactive summary · PDF · Online appendix · Dataset and replication · Guardian · Le Point · El Mundo · Marginal Revolution · Big Think · Atlantic · New York Times · Works in Progress · DirtyBiology · Peter Frankopan
The Making of France — with Masahiro Kubo · Revise & resubmit (2nd round), American Economic Review · Interactive summary · PDF · Online appendix
Malthusian Migrations — with Romain Wacziarg · Reject & resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics · Interactive summary · PDF · Online appendix · NBER WP #33542 · Marginal Revolution · UCLA Anderson Review
State-sponsored education and French identity — with Masahiro Kubo · in Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures (eds. Dominic Rohner and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya), CEPR Press, London, February 2023
France’s baby bust — Spotlight Article in Works in Progress, Issue 10, Stripe Press, February 2023
Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization — with Romain Wacziarg · Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 78, October 2020 · PDF · Awarded Larry Neal Prize
Television, Authority, and Family — with Masahiro Kubo and Valeria Rueda
Resilience — with Mounu Prem, Diego Ramos-Toro, and Valeria Rueda
Genealogies — with Nicola Barban, Thomas Baudin, Matthew Curtis, Joseph Enguehard, Paula Gobbi, Simone Moriconi, and Robert Stelter · Extends Demographic Transitions, Rural Flight, and Intergenerational Persistence · Dataset