Recent & Upcoming Talks

  • Northwestern Economic History Lunch
  • SED Meeting Cartagena

Work

(2024). A time-varying index for agricultural suitability across Europe from 1500-2000. revise and resubmit at nature, Scientific Data.

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(2024). The Role of Culture in Regional Development. encyclopedia entry, forthcoming in ‘World of Regional Science’, published by Edward Elgar.

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(2024). Traffic Safety. encyclopedia entry, forthcoming in ‘World of Regional Science’, published by Edward Elgar.

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(2021). Market Integration and Urban Europe, 1100 - 1800 A.D.. mimeo.

Draft available upon request

Recent Posts

Propedeutics and Motivation. Urbanisation in developing economies is finally starting to get the recognition that it deserves within the profession. Apart from the recent special issue in the JoUE edited by Glaeser and Henderson (2017), there finally is a paper that provides a theoretical explanation for how poor megacities can come about: Jedwab and Vollrath (n.d.) in the AEJ:Macro (I personally would have loved to see that in a top5 since it is so unique and the first of its kind)1.

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Teaching

Resources for courses I co-taught or TA’d

A.A. 2020/21

  • Microeconomics (see blackboard) [Johns Hopkins SAIS]

A.A. 2018/19

A.A. 2016/17

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