Articles in refereed journals

"From Farmers to Merchants, Conversions and Diaspora: Human Capital and Jewish History." Journal of the European Economic Association 5, no. 5 (September 2007): 885-926, with Zvi Eckstein (lead article).

"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." In 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).

Farmers to Merchants: Human Capital and Jewish History, 100 BCE - 1290 CE (manuscript in preparation), with Zvi Eckstein.

Working papers and work-in-progress

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

"Social Norms, Demographic Shocks, and Dowries in Florence, 1250-1450." Manuscript, March 2006. 

"From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History." CEPR Discussion Paper no. 6006 (December 2006), with Zvi Eckstein [this is a longer version of the article in JEEA 2007, with an extended bibliography].

"Why Dowries?" Working Paper version (2000). [This is a much longer version of the paper in AER 2003, with proofs, a historical appendix, and a longer bibliography].

"The Value of Sons in a Premodern Economy: A View from the Marriage Market," with Daniel A. Ackerberg and Aloysius Siow, work-in-progress.

Entries in encyclopedias and book chapters

"Path Dependence and Occupations." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, with Zvi Eckstein (Forthcoming).

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

"Marriage Payments." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Jewish Diaspora." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Commercial and Trade Diasporas." In 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 Des personnes aux institutions. Reseaux et culture du crédit du XVIe au XXe siécle en Europe, edited by L. Fontaine, G. Postel-Vinay, J.-L. Rosenthal and P. Servais, 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.