Working Papers

1. Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Science in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis

with Ali Almelhem, Murat Iyigun, and Austin Kennedy

revisions requested at Quarterly Journal of Economics

2. Competing Social Influence in Contested Diffusion: Luther, Erasmus and the Spread of the Protestant Reformation

with Sascha O. Becker, Yuan Hsiao, and Steven Pfaff

3. Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th-Century China and Japan

with Debin Ma

revisions requested at Journal of Government and Economics (special issue edited by Stephen Broadberry)