Biographical Information
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Courses
I am currently teaching Intermediate Microeconomics (ECN 100) and Analysis of World Economic History Since the Industrial Revolution (ECN 110B) in the fall of 2009. Students can access course materials by going to the Smartsite page for each course. In the future, I expect to post lecture notes, homeworks and exams for previous classes on this site (past courses include Intermediate Microeconomics (ECN 100), American Economic History Before the Civil War (ECN 111A) and Analysis of Economic Data (ECN 102).
Teaching evaluations for the 2008-2009 academic year (pdf)
Working Papers
Newer versions of working papers likely exist. If you are curious about the state of a current paper, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me.
American Mobility and the Expansion of Public Education (pdf, 566KB)
Good Schools Make Good Neighbors: Human Capital Spillovers in Early-20th Century Agriculture (pdf, 658KB)
Childhood Health and Educational Attainment: Evidence from (Genetic) Brothers in Arms (pdf, 577KB)
Maps and Graphs for the Health and Education Project
Map of average educational attainment by county for WWII enlistees (jpg)
Map of average height by county for WWII enlistees (jpg)
Graph of average height and educational attainment by cohort for WWII enlistees (jpg)
Maps for the Human Capital Spillovers Project
Distribution of annual earnings: Chickasaw, Poweshiek, Ringgold (pdf, ~100KB each)
Distribution of total schooling with school locations: Chickasaw, Poweshiek, Ringgold (pdf, ~100KB each)
Distribution of high school and college attainment with school locations: Chickasaw, Poweshiek, Ringgold (pdf, ~100KB each)
Distribution of church affiliations: Chickasaw, Poweshiek, Ringgold (pdf, ~100KB each)
Distribution of parents' place of birth: Chickasaw, Poweshiek, Ringgold (pdf, ~100KB each)
Data and Code
Annual reports of county superintendents of schools, Iowa, 1900
The following data are transcribed from the microfilms of the original report files. To date, I have transcribed the complete records for thirteen counties. If you are interested in data for other counties, I can provide pdf's of the originial report pages.
Variable List (pdf)
Transcribed Data (excel file, 651KB)
Mapping files for the human capital spillovers in agriculture project
Complete ArcMap and data files (zip file, 83MB)
The following scripts determine a farmer's adjacent neighbors and calculate summary statistics regarding those neighbors. The scripts are based on the QueryAll script written by Shan Chen.
Script to calculate neighbor characteristics (VBscript file, 26KB)
Script to calculate neighbor characteristics within and outside of social networks (VBScript file, 33KB)
City level mortality and morbidity statistics by disease, averages for 1918-1924 and reported figures for 1925
The file below contains data on the number of cases and deaths from various diseases between 1918 and 1925 for cities with a population of over 100,000 in 1925. The data are transcribed from tables in volume 41, issue 38 of the Public Health Reports published by the Department of Public Health. I will post similar information for all cities with populations between 10,000 and 100,000 once I have checked the data for errors.
City level morbidity and mortality data, 1918-1925 (Excel file, 52KB)
Intergenerational data for the mobility and public school expansion project
I am still working to clean up and annotate the raw data and stata files. If you have any questions about these data, feel free to email me.
Economic History Research Guide
This is a guide summarizing some useful online resources for research in economic history. It was written for undergraduates in my American economic history course but some parts of the guide, particularly some of the datasets, may be of use to others.
Research Tools (pdf)
Links
UC-Davis Department of Economics
EH.net (economic history resources)
National Historical Geographic Information System
Historical Statistics of the United States
The National Archives - Access to Archival Databases (AAD)
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series from the Minnesota Population Center