Published

2020

“Coal and the European Industrial Revolution” (with Kevin O’Rourke). The Economic Journal. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa117

“Representation of the People: Franchise Extension and The ‘Sinn Féin Election’ in Ireland, 1918” (with Alan de Bromhead and Enda Hargaden). The Journal of Economic History. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050720000376

2019

“When Britain Turned Inward: The Impact of Interwar British Protection” (with Alan de Bromhead, Markus Lampe, and Kevin O’Rourke). American Economic Review. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20172020

2018

“The Anatomy of a Trade Collapse: the UK, 1929-1933” (with Alan de Bromhead, Markus Lampe, and Kevin O’Rourke). European Review of Economic History. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hey029

2017

“Human Capital and the Quantity–Quality Trade-Off During the Demographic Transition”. Journal of Economic Growth. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-016-9138-3

2015

“Intermarriage in a Divided Society: Ireland a Century Ago” (with Cormac Ó Gráda and Brendan M. Walsh). Explorations in Economic History. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2014.11.002

“Physical Stature Decline and the Health Status of the Elderly Population in England” (with Mark E. McGovern). Economics and Human Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2013.12.010

2014

“Do Fertility Transitions Influence Infant Mortality Declines? Evidence from Early Modern Germany” (with Mark E. McGovern). Journal of Population Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-014-0506-z

2013

“Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England” (with Liam Delaney and James P. Smith). Demography. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-013-0235-z

“Malthusian Dynamics in a Diverging Europe: Northern Italy, 1650–1881”. Demography. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-012-0141-9


Working Papers

2018

Population and Poverty in Ireland on the Eve of the Great Famine (with Cormac Ó Gráda). http://www.quceh.org.uk/uploads/1/0/5/5/10558478/wp18-13.pdf