Publications
Religion exhibits the greatest cultural diversity across 117 countries (with Jeanet Sinding Bentzen, Lena Sperling, and Ara Norenzayan)
Nature Communications, forthcoming
[Pdf]
The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development (with Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Pablo Selaya)
Journal of Economic Growth, 2020
[Link] [Pdf] [Appendix] [Replication files]
Media: Weekendavisen
Working Papers
Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change in the Age of Mass Migration
Revise & Resubmit at Review of Economic Studies
[Pdf]
Media : The Economist, Slate, Weekendavisen, Nada es Gratis, Minerva, Politologerna, Financial Times Alphaville
Cultural Change and Fertility Decline: Sweden 1880-1910 (with Martin Dribe and Björn Eriksson)
Reject & Resubmit at Journal of Economic History
[Please contact me for the latest draft]
Names as Cultural Mirrors (with Jeanet Sinding Bentzen, Lars Harhoff Andersen, Tom Raster, and Ekaterina Travova)
[CEPR Discussion Paper]
Work in Progress
“Engines of Change: Networks and Identity in the Second Industrial Revolution” (with Anke Becker and Gustav Agneman) *** contact me for the latest draft ***
“Faith in Grief: Evidence on Religious Coping from Danish Administrative Data” (with Jeanet Sinding Bentzen and Ekaterina Travova) *** contact me for the latest draft ***
“It Took a Village: Cultural Transmission in a Historical Perspective”
“Internal (Selective) Migration, Urbanization, and Growth: Evidence from 19th Century Sweden” (with Kerstin Enflo and Jakob Molinder)