How new technology reshaped the political equilibrium of the early Iron Age through violence.

The colonization of the New World was heavily intertwined with the Catholicization of the Americas. This paper seeks to understand the interactions between Nati

In this paper, we construct and analyze a database of warfare around the Mediterranean from 600 to 30 BCE. We provide the first in-depth statistical s…

The U-Curve of income inequality in the United States is a longstanding stylised fact in economic history. The ‘Great Leveling’ that led to the trough that lasted from the 1940s to the early 1980s ...

By Luis L. Schenoni Since Charles Tilly declared that “war made the state,” the formation of modern national states has been viewed through a distinctly European lens. In the face of ex…

<p>The introduction of iron metallurgy around 1200 BCE was a transformative technology shock, marking the end of the Bronze Age.  Bronze required a mixture

In this paper, we construct and analyze a database of warfare around the Mediterranean from 600 to 30 BCE. We first summarize the main empirical patterns across

The U-Curve of income inequality in the United States is a longstanding stylized fact in economic history. The “Great Levelling” that led to the trough that las