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Awards


2018-21 NSF Research Grant "Social Mobility and the Origins of US Science"

​2015-2018    INET Award Copyright and Creativity

2012-2016    NSF CAREER Award 1151180

2012-2013    Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS)

10/ 2012    Becker-Friedman Fellow, University of Chicago School of Law

2012-2013    NBER Research Grant, “Copyrights and Creativity”

2009-2012    NSF Research Grant SES0921859 “Compulsory Licensing”

2005-2006    Arch W. Shaw National Fellow, Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

2003    Alexander Gerschenkron Prize. Best dissertation in economic history for European, Asian, African and Latin American topics.

Interviews and Research Briefs

10-min about opera on Freakonomics (min 17:40-28.00)

A 15-min IMF podcast about my research on operas, exhibitions, and innovation

NBER Digest on Effects of Copyrights on Science

German-language radio interview on copyrights and science 

Interview in Knowable Magazine on Patents and Innovation

Interview on Innovation Hub Interview: "Immigrants and Innovation"
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Short film: How Copyright Improved Italian Opera


NBER Reporter

Patents and Innovation: Evidence from Economic History
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​Intellectual Property Rights and Artistic Creativity

What Jane Austen and Walter Scott can Teach us About Copyright

Google Scholar

Twitter 




Service

Elected Vice President of the Economic History Association, 2019-20. Service on Nominating Committee, Budget and Auditing Committee, & Board of Trustees

Elected Member of NYU Stern's Faculty Council, 2017-19, 2020-21

Board Member, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), 2019-21.
- CSWEP Organizer for mid-career mentoring meeting 2020-21.
- Co-organizer for CSWEP paper sessions on Entrepreneurship and Innovation at AEA 2021.
- Committee Member, AEA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion

Elected Member, Board of Trustees, Economic History Association, 2017-21

Elected Member, Board, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics, 2018-21.

Co-organizer, Virtual Seminar in Economic History, March-August 2020

First-Gen Mentoring in Economics

Instructor, NBER Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp 2020

​Faculty Recruitment Committee, NYU Shanghai,  2018-19

Faculty Review Committee, NYU Abu Dhabi, 2018-19
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Economics PhD Program Coordinator, NYU Stern. Admissions, recruiting, DGS, and placement, 2016/17.

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Economic History, 2016-2020.

Member of Standing Committee on the Journal of Economic History. 2016-2019.

Elected Member, Board of Trustees, Cliometric Society for Economic History, 2014-2018.

Convener for the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in 2016, selecting the best dissertation in economic history (Europe, Asia, Africa, and comparative topics).

Selection Committee Member for the Economic History Association’s Gyorgi Ranki Prize, for the best book on the economic history of Europe, 2010-2015.  Chair 2015.

Program Committee Member 
  • SIOE, 2017, 2018
  • World Congress of the Econometric Society, 2015
  • Annual Meetings of American Law and Economics Association, 2015
  • German Economists Abroad, 2014-16.
  • All-UC Group in Economic History 2012.
  • Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), 2008, 2010, and 2012.

Referee:

Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review, 2016 and 2017,

American Economic Review, AEJ Applied, AEJ Micro, AEJ Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economic Journal, Econometrica, European Economic Review, European Review of Economic History, European Research Council, Explorations in Economic History, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Law and Economics, Managerial and Decision Economics, National Science Foundation, Oxford Economic Papers, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Research Policy, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Sloan Foundation.



March 2021
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