Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality We investigate women’s fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, and lower intensive and extensive margin fertility. We also find increased labor force participation, an improvement in occupational status, and a decline...
Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia Through the custom of guardianship, husbands typically have the final word on their wives’ labor supply decisions in Saudi Arabia, a country with very low female labor force participation (FLFP). We provide incentivized evidence (both from an experimental sample in...
Forgotten Booms and Busts: New Sale and Rental Price Indices for US Housing, 1890-1990 This presentation introduces a project that will generate new housing price indices (HPIs), in both sale and rental segments, of U.S. urban housing. The full project will cover 50 cities since the end of the U.S....
Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration, and the Rise of Innovation. Speaker’s Homepage
“Regimes of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in England during the French Wars (1793-1821)”. The national emergency and the pressure of the French Wars (1793-1815) constrained the government and the Bank of England to an unprecedented coordination between fiscal and monetary policy during which the Bank of England also operated its...
Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration. We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by connectivity within the...
The Rise and Fall of Family Size: Efficient Human Capital Investment and Fertility. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of fertility in a model where parents can increase children’s income both from investing in children’s human capital and by transferring income that derives from investment in physical capital. The analysis...
