Dissertation

"Essays on Economic Mobility in U.S. History"

Peer-Reviewed Publications

"Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data—The Census Tree Project", with Kasey Buckles, Joseph Price,

and Haley Wilbert

Explorations in Economic History 2025, 98: 101717.

Census Tree data   |   NBER working paper   |   open-access draft

Selected presentations — Stellenbosch University Workshop on Economic History in the Age of AI (2025), Princeton Symposium on Advances in Record Linkage (2024), 

LSE Workshop on Genealogical Sources in Economic History (2024), Southern Economics Association (2024)

"Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States", with David R. Just and Joseph Price

American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2025, 107(1): 3-26

NBER working paper   |   SSRN (open access)   |   slides (non-technical)

George F. Warren Award for Outstanding Published Paper, Second Place, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University

Presented at International Farm Transition Network (2025), Cornell University Smith Family Business Initiative (2023), UC-Berkeley Agricultural & Resource Economics (2021)

"The Migration of Lynch Victims’ Families, 1880-1930", with Ryan Gabriel, Amy Kate Bailey, and Joseph Price

Demography 2023, 60(4): 1235–1256

Presented at Population Association of America (2022)

Working Papers

"Can Immigrants Transfer their Skills? Evidence from International Census Records"

Dissertation Research Grant from Russell Sage Foundation and W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Selected Presentations — Lund University Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Economic History (planned), Lund University Centre for Economic Demography

       (planned), Danish Society for Economic and Social History (planned), Cornell Economic History Conference (2026), Economic History Association @ ASSA (2026),  

       W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (2025), Dondena-Cornell Gathering (2024)

"The Long-Run Effects of Parental Wealth Shocks on Children", with Cache Ellsworth, Ian Fillmore, and Joseph Price

open-access draft   |   slides for NBER Summer Institute

Selected presentations — NBER Summer Institute on Children and Families (2025),  Dondena-Cornell Gathering (2025),  

Mountain West Economic History Conference (2024),  Economic History Association @ ASSA (2024),  Southern Economics Association (2024)

"Advancing the Frontier for Linking Subgroups in U.S. Census Records", with Kasey Buckles and Joseph Price

open-access draft   |   slides for NBER Linking Small Populations

Presented at NBER Conference on Linking Historical Data Sources for Small Populations (2025)

"The Economic Outcomes of Black Migrants During the Great Migration", with Peter Polhill, Ryan Gabriel, and Joseph Price

Selected Works in Progress

"Generational Persistence of Economic Advantage in the US: A New Approach", with Dan Black, Leah Clark, Seth Sanders, 

      Lynne Schofield, and Lowell Taylor

slides for FLX Labor Day Conference

Selected presentations — FLX Labor Day Conference (2025),  Dondena-Cornell Gathering (2024)

"Selection and Earnings Gains in the Great Migration: Accounting for Migration to Southern Cities", with Ryan Gabriel

(My presentations are bolded)