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United Kingdom
Ph.D., Economics; University of California,
Berkeley CA, Dec. 1994.
B.A., summa
cum laude, Economics and International Relations;
The American University,
Washington DC, Aug. 1986.
Minors in Russian language and Soviet
Studies.
2008 –
pres. Fellow
and Tutor in Economics, Pembroke College, University of Oxford.
2005 – 08: Associate
Professor (Õ07-Õ08 chairman); Dept. of Economics, Franklin & Marshall
College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
1999 –
2005: Assistant
Professor; Dept. of Economics, Franklin & Marshall
College.
1996 – 99: Lecturer; Departments of Economics and
Economic & Social
History (joint appointment), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. (Equivalent to an assistant professor position.)
1994 – 96: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter; Seminar fŸr
Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitŠt, Munich,
Germany. (Equivalent to a post-doc position.)
1989 – 94: Graduate Student Instructor,
Graduate Student Researcher;
Dept. of Economics, Dept. of Public Policy, University of California - Berkeley.
Visiting
Positions
2006: Visiting
professor; Dept. of Economics and Institutions, University of Rome ÒTor VergataÓ
(Jan-July).
Publications and papers
Published Articles
ÒQuantifying
Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital,Ó forthcoming,
Journal of Economic History, vol. 69,
no. 4 (2009).
With Jšrg Baten and Dorothee
Crayen,
ÒHeight and the
Normal Distribution: Evidence from Italian Military Data,Ó Demography, vol. 46, no. 1 (2009). With Franco Peracchi
and Giovanni Vecchi.
ÒRussian Living
Standards Under the Tsars: Anthropometric Evidence from the Volga,Ó Journal of Economic History, vol. 68,
no. 3 (2008), pp. 900-929. With Boris Mironov.
ÒRemapping
ItalyÕs Path to the 19th Century: Anthropometric SignpostsÓ, Journal of European Economic History,
vol. 35, no. 2 (2006), pp. 349-392.
ÒFinance-led
Divergence in the Regions of Italy,Ó Financial
History Review, vol. 12, no. 1 (2005), pp. 7-41.
ÒA
Restricted Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Historical Height Samples,Ó Economics and Human Biology, vol. 2, no.
1 (March 2004), pp. 5-19.
ÒIl
benessere dellÕItalia settentrionale nel secolo e mezzo precedente lÕunitˆ,Ó Rivista di Storia Economica, vol. XIX, no. 3
(December 2003), pp. 297-314.
ÒAnthropometric
Evidence on Living Standards in Northern Italy, 1730-1860,Ó Journal of Economic History, vol. 63,
no. 2 (June 2003), pp. 351-381.
ÒMore
International Evidence on the Historical Properties of Business Cycles,Ó Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 47
(2001), pp 321-346, with U. Woitek.
ÒCould Southern
Italians Cooperate? Banche
Popolari in the Mezzogiorno,Ó Journal of Economic History, vol. 60,
no. 1 (March 2000). pp 67-93.
ÒInstitutions,
Externalities, and Economic Growth in Southern Italy: Evidence from the Cotton
Textile Industry, 1861-1914,Ó Economic
History Review, vol. LI, no. 4 (November 1998). pp 734-762.
ÒThe Antebellum
Puzzle Revisited: A New Look at the Physical Stature of Union Army Recruits
during the Civil War,Ó in Studies on the
Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective, J. Komlos and J. Baten, eds.,
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. pp. 250-267.
Book Reviews
Von der Autarkie zum Wirtschaftswunder: Wirtschaftspolitik und
industrieller Wandel in Italien 1935-1963, by Rolf Petri. Journal of Economic History, v. 63, no.
1 (March 2003), pp. 261-62.
The Growth of the
Italian Economy 1820-1960, by Jon Cohen and Giovanni Federico. EH.net, Sept.
2002.
Italian
Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism, by Franklin Adler. Journal of Economic History, v. 57 n. 4
(Dec. 1997), pp. 736-38.
2005 Italian Fulbright Commission senior
researcher grant no. 5318, awarded to support visiting the University of Rome
ÒTor Vergata,Ó Department of Economics and
Institutions, during the 2005-06 academic year.
2005 University of Rome ÒTor VergataÓ visiting scholar grant.
Current projects:
The Roots of Regional Disparities in Human
Capital: the Political Economy of Primary Education in Liberal Italy.
Intermediate Macroeconomics, Introduction to
Macroeconomics, Economic Statistics, Econometrics, Introduction to Economic
Principles, History of the International Economy, U.S. Economic History,
European and Chinese Economic Development 900-1900, supervision of independent
studies and honors theses.
(Franklin
& Marshall)
History of the International Economy -
MasterÕs in International Economics Program (Rome – Tor Vergata).
A New Institutional Economics Approach to
Economic History, Quantitative Methods for MRes in
Social Science Research / Postgraduate Research Training Certificate,
Contributions to MPhil in Economic History, Non-honours Research Training, MSc
in Development Economics dissertation supervision.
(Glasgow)
Survey of European Economic History, Seminar
in Economic History, Contributions to General Economics for Business Students.
(Munich)
Referee for
Journal of Economic History,
Economic History Review,
Explorations in Economic History,
European Review of Economic History,
Labour,
Journal of International Economics,
Bulletin of Economic Research,
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
Scottish Journal of Political Economy,
Financial History Review,
Economics and Human Biology, and
Oxford Economic Papers.
Italian, German, Russian, French
Hometown: Washington DC area.
Family: married to Zlata
Solovova, children Sean (19), Brendan (13), and Marie
(7).