Articles in refereed Journals

 

  "Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?" Journal of Economic History 65, no. 4 (December 2005): 922-48, with Zvi Eckstein.
 "Why Dowries?" American Economic Review 93, no. 4 (September 2003): 1385-98, with Aloysius Siow.

"Endogenous Matching and the Empirical Determinants of Contract Form." Journal of Political Economy 110, no. 3 (June 2002): 564-92, with Daniel A. Ackerberg.

"The Choice of Agrarian Contracts in Early Renaissance Tuscany: Risk Sharing, Moral Hazard, or Capital Market Imperfections?" Explorations in Economic History 37 (July 2000): 241-57, with Daniel A. Ackerberg.

"A Tale of 'Benevolent' Governments: Private Credit Markets, Public Finance, and the Role of Jewish Lenders in Medieval and Renaissance Italy." Journal of Economic History 60 (March 2000): 164-89.

"A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Marriage Market in a Tuscan Town, 1415-1436." Journal of Economic History 59 (March 1999): 104-21.

"New Evidence on Jewish Money Lending in Tuscany, 1310-1430: The Friends and Family Connection Again." Zakhor. Rivista di storia degli ebrei in Italia I (1997): 77-93.


Book projects

 

The Price of Love: Marriage Markets and Intergenerational Transfers in Comparative Perspective

(Manuscript in preparation, under contract with Princeton University Press).

A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History, 70 - 1492 CE (Manuscript in preparation), with Zvi Eckstein.

 

Working papers and work-in-progress

 

 "Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets?" Manuscript (September 2006), with Aloysius Siow.

"From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History." CEPR Discussion Paper no. 5571 (March 2006), with Zvi Eckstein.
"Social Norms, Demographic Shocks, and Dowries in Florence, 1250-1450." Manuscript (March 2006).
 "The Value of Sons in a Premodern Economy: A View from the Marriage Market," with Daniel A. Ackerberg and Aloysius Siow, work-in-progress.

"Why Dowries?" Working Paper version (2000), with Historical Appendix and Proofs.

Entries in encyclopedias and book chapters

 

"Path Dependence and Occupations." In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence Blume (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd ed.), London: Palgrave MacMillan Limited, with Zvi Eckstein (Forthcoming).

"Ethnic Groups, Jews." In John J. McCusker (ed.), History of World Trade After 1450. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.

 "Marriage Payments." In Joel Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  "Jewish Diaspora." In Joel Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Commercial and Trade Diasporas." In Joel Mokyr (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"The 1427 Florentine Catasto as a Source for the Study of Jewish Money Lending." In L. Fontaine, G. Postel-Vinay, J.-L. Rosenthal and P. Servais (eds), Des personnes aux institutions. Reseaux et culture du crédit du XVIe au XXe siécle en Europe, pp. 28-47. Louvain-la-Neuve: Bruylant-Academia, 1997.

 

Articles in Italian

"Contrattazione matrimoniale e trasferimenti intergenerazionali in prospettiva comparata." Rivista di Politica Economica IX-X (September-October 2003): 21-46.

"Contratti, mercati, e istituzioni in prospettiva storica." Rivista di Storia Economica (December 2002): 351-78.