sample of publications

• articles 

  • Does abortion liberalization accelerate fertility decline? A worldwide time-series analysis.  European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne de Demographie.  39:1-24. 2023
  • Living standards of copper mine labour in Chile and the Central African Copperbelt compared, 1920s to 1960s.  Economic History of Developing Regions.  2023
  • Numeracy of religious minorities in Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition era.  Revista de Historia Economica.  38:147-184. 2020
  • Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890-1950.  Economics & Human Biology.  34:115-124. 2019
  • Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s-1970s).  INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY.  62:215-252. 2017
  • From coercion to compensation: institutional responses to labour scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt.  Journal of Institutional Economics.  1-31. 2016
  • A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820-2000.  JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS.  42:375-401. 2014

• book chapters 

  • African Agency versus State and Capital Control: Migration to the British Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, 1920s to 1960s (Chapter 9). In: Migrant Actors Worldwide.  Brill. 163-186. 2024
  • Labour Transformations in Central and Southern Africa from Colonial to Postcolonial Times. In: The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology.  SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD.. 2024
  • Migration and Stabilization: Mining Labor in the Belgian Congo, Northern Rhodesia, and South Africa. In: Migration in Africa Shifting Patterns of Mobility from the 19th to the 21st Century.  Routledge. 203-228. 2022
  • Mining, paternalism and the spread of education in the Congo since 1920. In: Cliometrics of the family.  SPRINGER NATURE LIMITED. 305-332. 2019

• conference contributions 

  • From Coercion to Compensation: Comparative Living Standards of Copper Mine Workers in the Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia, c. 1910-1970 2016
  • Resource Curse or Blessing? The Impact of Mining Activities on Human Capital Formation in Zambia and Congo 2016
  • Resource curse or blessing? The impact of mining activities on schooling in Zambia 2016
  • Colonial origins of the threefold reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems 2015
  • Obey or Pay: Taxation, Migration and Forced Labour in Portuguese Mozambique in the First Half of the 20th Century 2015
  • Skill Selectivity in Transatlantic Migration: The case of Canary Islanders in Cuba 2015
  • The Human Capital of Iberian Jews and Other Minorities during the Inquisition Era 2015

• working papers 

  • Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: Fiscal Capacity and Labour Systems 2015