Selected Publications

"Technology adoption, mortality, and population dynamics"
with  John Hejkal and B. Ravikumar
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Working Paper 2020-039I, July 2024

"The Mechanics of Individually- and Socially-Optimal Decisions during an Epidemic"
FORTHCOMING: B E Journal of Macroeconomics

"Explaining Educational Attainment Across Countries And Over Time"
with  Diego Restuccia
Review of Economic Dynamics, October 2014, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 824-841
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2014.03.002

"Fertility and Wars: The Case of World War I in France"
American Economic Journal-Macroeconomics, April 2014, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 108-136
https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.6.2.108

"The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis"
with  Diego Restuccia
International Economic Review, August 2013, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp. 915-936
https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12022

"The U.S. Westward Expansion"
International Economic Review, February 2008, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 81-110
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2354.2008.00474.x

"The Baby Boom and Baby Bust"
with  Jeremy Greenwood and  Ananth Seshadri
American Economic Review, March 2005, Vol. 95, No. 1, pp. 183-207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/0002828053828680