Economist at the World Bank in the Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment department since 2022, with a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics (2022).
This paper investigates whether individuals who have experienced stronger GDP growth over their lifetimes are more likely to trust their national government. The authors — Besley, Dann, and Dray — …
Online FirstQuarterly Journal of EconomicsOnline 4 Sep 2026
Wealth data for the nineteenth-century United States barely exist, and this paper builds them from an unusual source: the paper trail of the General Property Tax, a levy that — unlike land taxes …