News & Updates

Recent Updates

2026

April The Economist features "Never Enough".
Delivering the Griffin Lecture at U Melbourne.
March Coverage in VoxEU and The Spectator on "Never Enough" about status incentives and German fighter pilots.
AER Excellence in Reviewing Award.
Talk at UBC Vancouver.
February Swiss AI research grant for 50,000 GPU hours.
January Out in AEJ: Applied: "Highway to Hitler" (with Nico Voigtländer).

2025

November Presenting "Never Enough" (with Ewan Rawcliffe and Leo Bursztyn) at U Chicago Behavioral Economics Conference.
September Presenting "Legacy on Deck" (with Guo Xu) at U Chicago AI in Social Science Conference.
August Talks at the Econometric World Congress: "American Life Histories" and panel on publishing in economics.
May Talk at the Brown Long-Run Growth Conference.
April Podcasts with Steve Davis and Tim Phillips on "American Life Histories".
Talks at Harvard and BU.
March Talks in Utrecht, Stockholm, and Brown.
February Talk at the Econ Hist Group in Oxford.
Talk at EIEF, Rome.

2024

November Talk at the PE Group in Oxford.
Talk at U Bocconi.
September Presenting "American Life Histories" at the Becker-Friedman Conference on AI in the Social Sciences.
July NBER-SI talk on "American Life Histories".
June Talk at LUISS, Rome.

2023

May Talks at U Chicago and NWU-Kellogg.
April Presentation on "Image(s)" at the NBER Cultural Economics Spring Meeting.
March Seminar at UNSW, Sydney.
Visiting Monash Business School in Melbourne.
January The Economist features "Fighting for Growth" and "Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution".
Keynote at the First Bolzano Workshop on Historical Economics.
Out in American Political Science Review: "Collective Remembrance and Private Choice" (with Vicky Fouka).
Out in Quarterly Journal of Economics: "New Deal, New Patriots" (with Bruno Caprettini).

2022

December Out in Journal of Finance: "Financial Crises and Political Radicalization" (with Doerr, Gissler, Peydro).
October Out in Review of Economic Studies: "Killer Incentives" (with Ager, Bursztyn, Leucht).
September Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society.
July Keynote at ACES Summer School in London on "The End of the End of History".
May Out in Explorations in Economic History: "Sweet Diversity" (with Jonathan Hersh).

2021

September Podcast interview with Tim Phillips on "Going Viral".
July Delivering the 2nd Annual Crafts Lecture at the Warwick Summer School.
Out in PNAS: "The Long Run Effects of Religious Persecution" (with Drelichman, Vidal-Robert).

2020

October Out in American Economic Review: Insights: "Rage Against the Machines" (with Bruno Caprettini).
March The Economist profiles my work on pandemics and economic growth.