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Why states colonize

How Colonialism Changed the World — for Better and for Worse

The Origins of Elite Splits

World War II Colonial Soldiers and the Demand for Independence

Disruptive Innovation in the Economic Organization of China and the West

Foreign Loans and State Weakening

The Problem of History Revisited

How Medieval and Early Modern Monarchies Cheated Death

How Radical Administrative Reforms Unfold: Evidence from France’s “Rotating Capitals”

Do Local Campaign Visits by a Populist Politician Matter in Elections?

Do Parliaments Cause Growth?

Ottoman Governance and Development: The Role of Human Capital

Did Tea Drinking Cut Mortality Rates in England?

Does Surveillance Work?

The Monks who Made Europe

Guess Who’s Back; PAP Again

State Capacity in Historical Political Economy: What, How, Why, and Why Not?

What I Learned from Working with Deceased Soviet Historians

Property Rights, Serfdom, and Institutional Divergence

Can We Solve Noisy Historical Data with Old Newspapers?

Explaining Assimilation – And Thoughts on Theory and Empirics in Historical Political Economy

Bringing in the New Votes: Turnout of Women after Enfranchisement

Identity and State Capacity: Religious Discrimination in Late-imperial Russia

Is anything going to change?

The Persistence of Inter-war Cleavages: Agrarian Inequality and the Left

The Differential Incarceration of the Emancipated and the Enslaved

Ethnic diversity as an outcome: the coevolution of state capacity and racial demography in Brazil

Identity and State Capacity

Calamities: A Call for a New Conceptual Toolkit

The Ghosts of History Haunt the Russia-Ukraine Crisis

On the Challenges of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Did Religion Facilitate Modern Growth? Or Was It a Stumbling Block?

The Problem(s) with Farmers

The Protestant Road to Bureaucracy

My experience digitizing historical sources with politicized histories

Ethics and Archival Research on Violence

Historical Origins of Ethnic Representation in the Nigerian Bureaucracy

What history can teach us about migration

What are our ethical responsibilities as HPE scholars?

The Origin of the State: Land Productivity or Appropriability?

How the World Became Rich (Part I)

Quantitative History, Spatial Heterogeneity, and the Problem of Generalization

Finding Historical Data V: The Curious Case of Ancestry.com

Studying Precolonial Legacies in the Present: Insights from Fieldwork

A Good Workshop

Leviathan Reborn: Bureaucratic Legacies of China and the First Great Divergence