Associate Professor, Economics, University of California, Merced
Research Associate, Centre for Economics, Policy, and History, Ireland
Research Affiliate, Queen's University Centre for Economic History, Belfast
Publications
1) A Rising Tide? The Local Incidence of the Second Wave of Globalization (with Greg C. Wright) Journal of International Economics 148, 2024: doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2023.103819. CESifoWP. gray_wright_jie2024.pdf
2) Economic Penalties based on Neighborhood, and Wealth Building (with Raymond Kim) in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2023.
3) Boomtowns: Local Shocks and Inequality in 1920s California (with Sarah Quincy) American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 112, 2022. EHES Working Paper.
4) Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States (with Paul Gaggl, Ioana Marinescu and Miguel Morin) Labour Economics, 68, 2021.
NBER Working Paper; CES Working Paper; IZA Working Paper
5) Processing Immigration Shocks: Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin (with Greg C. Wright and Giulia Montresor) Journal of International Economics, 126, 2020.;CESifo Working Paper
6) Locating the Manhattan Housing Market: GIS Evidence for 1880-1910 (with Rocco Bowman) Historical Methods, 54(3), 2021. QUCEH Working Paper
7) Inequality in Nineteenth Century Manhattan: Evidence from the Housing Market, Social Science History, 44(3), 2020. QUCEH Working Paper
8) Globalization, Agricultural Markets and Mass Migration: Italy, 1881-1912 (with Gaia Narciso and Gaspare Tortorici) Explorations in Economic History, 74, 2019. CREAM Working Paper
9) Crime and Violence
(2018) book chapter in An Economist's Guide to Economic History, edited by M. Blum and C.L. Colvin.
10) Energy in American Economic History
(2018) book chapter co-written with Carl Kitchens, in the Oxford Handbook of American Economic History, edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback and Paul Rhode.
11) Returns to Education in Criminal Organizations: Did Going to College Help Michael Corleone? (with Nadia Campaniello and Giovanni Mastrobuoni) Economics of Education Review, 54, 2016.
Media: Irish Times, Times Higher Education, Fortune Magazine, Bloomberg podcast, Conversation
12) Geography is not Destiny. Geography, Institutions and Literacy in Pre-Industrial England (with Gregory Clark), Oxford Economic Papers, 66(4), 2014.
EHES Working Paper Version
13) Taking Technology to Task: The Skill Content of Technological Change in Early Twentieth Century United States, Explorations in Economic History, 50(3), 2013.
Winner of the Larry Neal Prize for best article 2013-2014
_Click for a review of my electricity paper by Chris Colvin on the NEP-HIS blog
2) Economic Penalties based on Neighborhood, and Wealth Building (with Raymond Kim) in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2023.
3) Boomtowns: Local Shocks and Inequality in 1920s California (with Sarah Quincy) American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 112, 2022. EHES Working Paper.
4) Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States (with Paul Gaggl, Ioana Marinescu and Miguel Morin) Labour Economics, 68, 2021.
NBER Working Paper; CES Working Paper; IZA Working Paper
5) Processing Immigration Shocks: Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin (with Greg C. Wright and Giulia Montresor) Journal of International Economics, 126, 2020.;CESifo Working Paper
6) Locating the Manhattan Housing Market: GIS Evidence for 1880-1910 (with Rocco Bowman) Historical Methods, 54(3), 2021. QUCEH Working Paper
7) Inequality in Nineteenth Century Manhattan: Evidence from the Housing Market, Social Science History, 44(3), 2020. QUCEH Working Paper
8) Globalization, Agricultural Markets and Mass Migration: Italy, 1881-1912 (with Gaia Narciso and Gaspare Tortorici) Explorations in Economic History, 74, 2019. CREAM Working Paper
9) Crime and Violence
(2018) book chapter in An Economist's Guide to Economic History, edited by M. Blum and C.L. Colvin.
10) Energy in American Economic History
(2018) book chapter co-written with Carl Kitchens, in the Oxford Handbook of American Economic History, edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback and Paul Rhode.
11) Returns to Education in Criminal Organizations: Did Going to College Help Michael Corleone? (with Nadia Campaniello and Giovanni Mastrobuoni) Economics of Education Review, 54, 2016.
Media: Irish Times, Times Higher Education, Fortune Magazine, Bloomberg podcast, Conversation
12) Geography is not Destiny. Geography, Institutions and Literacy in Pre-Industrial England (with Gregory Clark), Oxford Economic Papers, 66(4), 2014.
EHES Working Paper Version
13) Taking Technology to Task: The Skill Content of Technological Change in Early Twentieth Century United States, Explorations in Economic History, 50(3), 2013.
Winner of the Larry Neal Prize for best article 2013-2014
_Click for a review of my electricity paper by Chris Colvin on the NEP-HIS blog
www.nber.org/papers/w32545?utm_campaign=ntwh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ntwg24
Works in Progress:
Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century (with Siobhan O'Keefe, Sarah Quincy and Zachary Ward)-- Revisions Requested, Journal of Human Resources, NBER WP32545
Skill Change (chapter being prepared for the Elgar Research Handbook on Historical Sociology (ed. Marco van Leeuwen)
Making a Police Officer: Police Quality After the Spoils System in the Urban U.S. (with Raymond Kim)
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006 (with Ronan C. Lyons and Allison Shertzer and David Agorastos)-- Revisions Requested, Quarterly Journal of Economics, NBER WP32593
The Affordability of Housing in the United States over the Twentieth Century (with Ronan C. Lyons and Allison Shertzer)
rices and the Standard of Living in the United States since the Civil War," with Ronan Lyons and Rowena Gra
Importing Crime? The Effect of Immigration on Crime in the United States, 1880-1930? (with Giovanni Peri)
Dens of Iniquity? Urban Crime in the United States in the Statistical Dark Age
Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days (with Paul Gaggl and Ioana Marinescu)
Works in Progress:
Tasks and Black-white Inequality over the Long Twentieth Century (with Siobhan O'Keefe, Sarah Quincy and Zachary Ward)-- Revisions Requested, Journal of Human Resources, NBER WP32545
Skill Change (chapter being prepared for the Elgar Research Handbook on Historical Sociology (ed. Marco van Leeuwen)
Making a Police Officer: Police Quality After the Spoils System in the Urban U.S. (with Raymond Kim)
The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890-2006 (with Ronan C. Lyons and Allison Shertzer and David Agorastos)-- Revisions Requested, Quarterly Journal of Economics, NBER WP32593
The Affordability of Housing in the United States over the Twentieth Century (with Ronan C. Lyons and Allison Shertzer)
rices and the Standard of Living in the United States since the Civil War," with Ronan Lyons and Rowena Gra
Importing Crime? The Effect of Immigration on Crime in the United States, 1880-1930? (with Giovanni Peri)
Dens of Iniquity? Urban Crime in the United States in the Statistical Dark Age
Technological Revolutions and Occupational Change: Electrifying News from the Old Days (with Paul Gaggl and Ioana Marinescu)
Recent Grants:
National Science Foundation ($607,000), Historical Housing Data, 2020-2023 (with Allison Shertzer, Ronan C. Lyons)
Russell Sage Foundation ($21,041), Immigration, Crime, and Policing: Evidence from US History, 2019-2020
Hellman Faculty Fellows Award ($21,000), Immigration, Crime and City Politics: Lessons from U.S. Urban History, 2017-2018
Russell Sage Foundation ($22,712), Adapting to Workplace Technological Change over the Long Run: Evidence from US Longitudinal Data, Co-Investigator with Miguel Morin, Cambridge, 2015-2016
British Academy Grant, 2012
UC Merced Senate Research Award, several years 2015-24
