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“Regimes of Fiscal and Monetary Policy in England during the French Wars (1793-1821)”.  The national emergency and the pressure of the French Wars (1793-1815) constrained the government and the Bank of England to an unprecedented coordination between fiscal and monetary policy during which the Bank of England also operated its...

Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration. We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by connectivity within the...

The Rise and Fall of Family Size: Efficient Human Capital Investment and Fertility. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of fertility in a model where parents can increase children’s income both from investing in children’s human capital and by transferring income that derives from investment in physical capital. The analysis...

Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration Integration is a common policy used to reduce discrimination, but different types of integration may have different effects. This paper estimates the effects of two types of integration: collaborative and adversarial. I recruited 1,261 young Indian men from...