Working Papers

Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The English Reformation and the Institutional Foundations of Limited Government

with Avner Greif

The Paradox of Power: Principal-Agent Problems and Administrative Capacity in Imperial China (and other Absolutist Regimes) [SSRN]

with Debin Ma

The Cultural Transmission of Trust Norms: Evidence from a Lab in the Field on a Natural Experiment [SSRN]

with Elira Karaja

A Theory of Conservative Revivals

with Murat Iyigun and Avner Seror

Culture and Colonial Legacy: Evidence from Public Goods Games

with Latika Chaudhary, Sriya Iyer, and Anand Shrivastava

A Time to Print, a Time to Reform

with Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini