Economic History
"The Fractured Land Hypothesis," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, with Jesus Fernandez-Villverde, Youhong Lin, and Tuan-Hwee Sng. Forthcoming
How the World Became Rich” with Jared Rubin. Polity Press, May 2022. Amazon.
Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom, with Noel D. Johnson, Cambridge University Press. Cambridge 2019. Amazon Website
“The Economic Impact of the Black Death,” The Journal of Economic Literature, with Remi Jedwab and Noel D. Johnson. March 2022.
“Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death” with Remi Jebwab and Noel D Johnson. Journal of Economic Growth, vol. 24 (4), December 2019, pp. 345-395.
“Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, the Rule of Law, and the persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire” with Theresa Finley Journal of Law & Economics, vol 61 (2), May 2018, pp 253-277.
"Unified China and Divided Europe” with Chiu Yo Ko and Tuan-Hwee Sng, International Economic Review," vol. 59. 1, February 2018
“Jewish Communities and City Growth in Preindustrial Europe,” with Noel D. Johnson Journal of Development Economics, vol. 127, July 2017, pp. 339-354
“Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks, 1100-1800” with Robert Warren Anderson and Noel Johnson.’ Economic Journal, vol. 127, 602, June 2017, pp. 924--958.
“Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witchcraft Trials in France” with Noel D. Johnson. Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 57, 1, February 2014.
“Tax Farming and the Origins of State Capacity in England and France” with Noel D. Johnson. Explorations in Economic History vol. 51,1, pp. 1-20 January 2014
2017 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Fellowship, Hoover Institution.
2016 Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
2016 Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship (IMMF), National University Singapore.
May 2019 Brown University (Deep Determinants of Economic Growth Conference)
April 2019 University of British Columbia (Law School)
April 2019 University of British Columbia (Economics)
April 2019 James Madison University
March 2019 Toulouse School of Economics
March 2019 Yale University
October 2018 NYU
August 2018 World Economic History Congress (Boston, 2 talks)
May 2018 University of California, Davis
April 2018 Stanford University (Political Science)
February 2018: Stanford University (Economics)
February 2018: University of California, Irvine
January 2018: Santa Clara University
December 2017: European Econometrics Meeting, Barcelona.
December 2017: Chapman University
November 2017: University of Pennsylvania
July 2017: IEA Roundtable on the Economics of Religion (Cambridge, UK)
June 2017: Law and Economics Workshop (Florence, Italy)
June 2017: SIOE (New York, USA)
May 2017: Northwestern University (Economic History Workshop)
April 2017: Brown University (Political Theory Project)
Here are a few media mentions.
The Economist: The Link Between Poor Harvests and Violence (June 2017)
The Upshot (NY Times): The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth (June 2014)
Slate.com: How Come China Became One Country but Europe Became Lots of Countries? (January 2014)
Foreign Policy: In Medieval Europe, Bad Weather Was Especially Bad for Jews (June 2013)
Times of Israel: Pogroms on Jews linked to cold snaps (March 2013)
Financial Times: Costs of a Cuppa (August 2012)
Fernando Arteaga, Three Essays on the Formation and Fragmentation of States (2019)