Research
ARTICLES
Measuring Socioeconomic Status in Historical Census of Canada, with Nicholas Li and Janki Shah - Historical Methods, October 2025.
The Model T with Joshua Hausman and Paul Rhode - The Journal of Economic History, March 2025.
The Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Mothers on Family Structure and Maternal Well-Being with Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, and Adriana Lleras-Muney - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2024.
Lifetime Impacts of the New Deal’s Youth Employment Program with Anna Aizer, Nancy Early, Guido Imbens, Keyoung Lee, Adriana Lleras-Muney and Alexander Strand - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2024.
The Transportation Revolution: The Car in the 1920s with Joshua Hausman and Paul Rhode, American Economics Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2022.
The Enduring Effects of Racial Discrimination on Income and Health: Evidence from American Civil War Veterans with Trevon Logan and Boriana Miloucheva - The Journal of Economic Literature, September 2023.
Caloric Intake and Energy Expenditures in India with Nicholas Li, The World Bank Economic Review, July 2020.
Ideology and Migration After the American Civil War with Laura Salisbury and Allison Shertzer, The Journal of Economic History, September 2018.
Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State: Evidence from Confederate Pensions in the American South with Laura Salisbury (2014, NBER Working Paper #20829) -The Journal of Economic History, December 2016.
The Long Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families with Anna Aizer, Joseph Ferrie and Adriana Lleras-Muney - American Economic Review, April 2016. Corrigendum.
Review of Unprotected Labor: Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York 1870-1940 by Vanessa May, The Journal of Economic History, September 2013: 888-890.
Income Effects on Health: Evidence from Union Army Pensions. The Journal of Economic History, June 2015.
Income Effects on Late-Life Health: Evidence from Union Army Pensions. The Journal of Economic History, June 2010. (Article Summary)
WORK IN PROGRESS
The Multigenerational Persistence of Welfare Receipt with Laura Salisbury
The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Children: New Estimates using Larger Samples with Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, Joseph Ferrie and Adriana Lleras-Muney
The Origins of Generosity and Racial Exclusion in the American Welfare System with Price Fishback, Niketana Kannan, Adriana Lleras-Muney and James Uguccioni
Ontario’s Housing Crisis in Medium-Run Perspective with Laura Salisbury
Bridging the 49th Parallel: Matching Histories across the US-Canadian border with Devin Bissky- Dziadyk, Kevin Didi and Stephan Heblich