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Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits

Psychological traits display substantial variation worldwide. These psychological variations could be explained by the intensity of kinship ties which, we hypothesize, depends on the reception of innovations that gradually complexified family …

The Missing Men. World War I and Female Labor Force Participation

The scarcity of men due to the war generated an upward shift in female labor force participation that persisted throughout the interwar period.

Mapping the Third Republic. A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940)

Describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third-Republic France: the TRF-GIS.

Publications

No Better Time Than Now. Future Uncertainty and Private Investment Under Dictatorship

Noisy signaling model that highlights how uncertainty about the type of potential autocratic successors might paradoxically provide incentives for elite investment.

Decomposing Culture. An Analysis of Gender, Language, and Labor Supply in the Household

Married female immigrants to the U.S. who speak a language with sex-based grammatical rules exhibit lower labor force participation, hours worked, and weeks worked.

Unlikely Democrats. Economic Elite Uncertainty under Dictatorship and Support for Democratization

Noisy signaling model that highlights how uncertainty about the type of potential autocratic successors might induce economic elites to support a democratic transition.

Do Female/Male Distinctions in Language Matter? Evidence from Gender Political Quotas

The pervasiveness of gender distinctions in grammar is strongly correlated with the adoption of political gender quotas.