Publication

1. Railways and Cities in India with James Fenske and Namrata Kala 

• 2023, Journal of Development Economics
• VoxDev: How railways impact the growth of cities: Evidence from colonial India

Work in progress

1. Financial development and patents during the First Industrial Revolution: England and Wales.

2. Branching for caution: Banks in England and Wales during a Financial Panic.Link opens in a new window

• Best Paper Prize of the Business and Industrial Section of the Royal Statistical Society

3. The fiscal foundation of bureaucratic power sharing in the late Qing China, with Tianyang Xi