Associate Professor, Economics
Education
DPhil in Economics at University of Oxford (2015)
MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford (2012)
BA (Honours) in Economics from the University of Alberta (2010)
Research Interests
Economic History, Development Economics, Political Economy
- “The Didache and Early Church Evangelism: An Economic Approach,”Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 2020.
- “The Political and Economic Role of Elites in Persecution: Evidence from Witchcraft Trials in Scotland,” Review of Economics and Institutions, 2019.
- “Income Shocks and Suicides: Causal Evidence From Indonesia,” (with Lukas Henseland Christopher Roth) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019.
- “Shocks to military support and subsequent assassinations in Ancient Rome,” (with Liam Elbourne) Economics Letters, 2018.
- “Lynchings, labour, and cotton in the US south: A reappraisal of Tolnay and Beck,” Explorations in Economic History, 2017.
- “The Economics of Religious Persecution” (with Matt D. Milligan)
- CEA Annual Meeting, Antigonish, Canada and ASSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA in 2017
- University Council for Research Fall grant at St. Francis Xavier University
- Principles of Microeconomics
