Title: The U.S. Civil War’s Impact on Women’s Work and Political Participation.

This is joint work with Madison Arnsbarger (Weber State) and Paige Montrose (Pittsburgh)

Title: The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws (with S. Redding and Y. Zylberberg)

Abstract: We examine the distributional consequences of trade using the Repeal of the Corn Laws and the Grain Invasion during the 19th-century. We use a newly-created dataset on population, employment by sector, property values, and poor law transfers for over 10,000 parishes in England andWales from 1801–1901. In response to this trade shock, we show that locations with high-wheat suitability experience population decline, rural-urban migration, structural transformation away from agriculture, increases in welfare transfers, and declines in property values, relative to locations with low-wheat suitability. We develop a quantitative spatial model to evaluate the aggregate economic implications of these findings. Undertaking counterfactuals for the Grain Invasion, we show that geography is an important dimension along which the distributional effects of trade occur.

Title: Inheritance Customs, the European Marriage Pattern, and Female Empowerment (with Matthew Curtis, Marc Goñi, and Joanne Haddad)