Publications
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
with Jonathan Schulz and Joseph Henrich
Journal of Political Economy, 2026; 134 (4): 1245-1305.
Media: Forbes
On the Importance of African Traditional Religion for Economic Behavior
with Lewis D. Butinda, Aimable A. Lameke, Nathan Nunn, and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra
Econometrica, Reject and resubmit
Media: Becker Friedman Institute
The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from U.S. Newspapers
with Sebastian Ottinger
Journal of the European Economic Association, Conditionally Accepted
Media: Broadstreet
Doux Commerce: Markets, Culture, and Cooperation in 1850-1920 U.S.
with Itzchak Tzachi Raz
Media: Marginal Revolution, National Affairs
Do Disasters Affect the Tightness of Social Norms?
New draft coming soon
Working Papers
Work in Progress
Cultural Change: Evidence from Three Centuries of U.S. Local Newspapers
Innovation and the Medieval Church [Slides]
with Slava Savitskiy, Joseph Henrich, and Jonathan Schulz