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Department of Economics
Williams College
24 Hopkins Hall Drive
Williamstown, MA 01267
Ph.D., Economics, Brown University, May, 2009
M.A., Economics, Brown University, May, 2004
B.A. (summa cum laude), Economics and Computer Science, Trinity College, May, 1999
Economic Growth, Macroeconomics, Population Economics, Computational Economics
The “Out of Africa” Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development (joint with Oded Galor), American Economic Review, forthcoming.
[ Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper ]
Dynamics and Stagnation in the Malthusian Epoch (joint with Oded Galor), American Economic Review, August 2011, 101(5), pp. 2003-2041.
[ Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper ]
Isolation and Development (joint with Oded Galor and Ömer Özak), Journal of the European Economic Association, April/May 2010, 8(2-3), pp. 401-412.
[ Open-access Working Paper ]
When Does Improving Health Raise GDP? (joint with Ashley Lester and David N. Weil), in Daron Acemoglu, Kenneth Rogoff, and Michael Woodford (eds.), NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, Vol. 23, pp. 157-204, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[ Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper ]
Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations (joint with Oded Galor), December 2011, NBER Working Paper 17640. Under revision.
[ Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper ]
The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth (joint with David N. Weil and Joshua Wilde), August 2011, NBER Working Paper 17377. Revision requested by Population and Development Review.
[ Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper ]
Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis (joint with Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt), June 2011, NBER Working Paper 17102. Under review.
[ Open-access Working Paper | NBER Working Paper ]
The Climatic Origins of the Neolithic Revolution: Theory and Evidence (joint with Stelios Michalopoulos), February 2011, Williams College Working Paper 2010-02. Revision requested by the Review of Economics and Statistics.
[ Open-access Working Paper ]
How Inflation Affects Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Investigation (joint with Boris Gershman and Peter Howitt), in progress.
Diversity at the Origin and Ethnic Civil Conflict in Contemporary National Populations (joint with Eren Arbatli and Oded Galor), in progress.
The Evolution of Property Rights and the Process of Development (joint with Oded Galor and Boris Gershman), in progress.
The Road from Serfdom: Industrialization and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Imperial Russia (joint with Oded Galor, Boris Gershman, and Steven Nafziger), in progress.
Geographical Isolation, Endogenous Technological Progress, and the Evolution of Cross-Country Comparative Development (joint with Oded Galor and Ömer Özak), in progress.