W. Walker Hanlon
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- Economic History (Northwestern)
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Published and Accepted Papers
(reverse chronological order)Historical Newspaper Data: A Researcher's Guide and Toolkit
With Brian Beach
Status: Forthcoming in Explorations in Economic History
Description: Review article providing tools for researchers interested in working with digitized historical newspaper databases.
Culture and the Historical Fertility Transition (with Brian Beach)
Review of Economic Studies, July 2023, 90(4), 1669-1700.
Coverage: VoxEU
London Fog: A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866-1965
Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics
Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Inter-war Aircraft Industry (with Taylor Jaworski)
Economic Journal, July 2022, 132(645), 1824-1851.
Coverage: VoxEU
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (with V. Arthi and B. Beach)
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2022, 14(2), 228-255.
Previously circulated as "Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters"
History and Urban Economics (Review article, with Stephan Heblich)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, May 2022, vol. 94.
Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965 (with Casper Worm Hansen and Jake Kantor)
Journal of Economic History, March 2021, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 40-80.
Coverage: VoxEU
The Persistent Effect of Temporary Input Cost Advantages in Shipbuilding, 1850-1911
Journal of the European Economic Association , December 2020, 18(6), pp. 3173-3209.
Coal Smoke, City Growth, and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
Economic Journal, February 2020, 130(626), pp. 462-488.
Skilled Immigrants and American Industrialization: Lessons from Newport News Shipyard
Business History Review , 2018, 92(4), pp. 605-632.
Coal Smoke and Mortality in an Early Industrial Economy (with Brian Beach)
Economic Journal, November 2018, 128(615), pp. 2652-2675.
Subsumes "Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century"
Coverage: VoxDev
Agglomeration: A Long-Run Panel Data Approach (with Antonio Miscio)
Journal of Urban Economics , Vol. 99, May 2017, pp. 1-14.
Data Appendix: See Data Resources section below
Book Review: The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection. By Werner Troesken.
Journal of Economic History Dec. 2016, v. 76 no. 4, pp. 1240-1242
Review of Economics & Statistics , March 2017, 99(1), p. 67-79.
Subsumes "Industry Connections and the Geographic Location of Economic Activity"
Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change
Econometrica , January 2015, 83(1), pp. 67-100.
Killer Cities: Past and Present (with Yuan Tian)
American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings , May 2015, 105(5), pp. 570-575
Do better monitoring institutions increase leadership quality in community organizations? Evidence from Uganda. -- with Guy Grossman
American Journal of Political Science , July 2014, v. 58, pp. 669-686.
Working Papers
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
Status: Draft updated September 23, 2023
Press:
Draft updated Feb. 28, 2024. Presentation mode.
Draft updated January 20, 2023
With Stephan Heblich, Ferdinando Monte, Martin Schmitz
Status: Updated draft posted May 18, 2022
Why Britain? The Right Place (in the Technology Space) at the Right Time
Latest draft: NBER Summer Institute version
With Carl Hallmann and Lukas Rosenberger
Bridging Science and Technology During the Industrial Revolution
Status: New draft posted October 16, 2023
Older unpublished working papers
Endogenous City Disamenities: Lessons from Industrial Pollution in 19th Century Britain
Available from the Ziman Center Working Paper Series here
This paper was a precursor to "Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution"
Pollution and Maternal Mortality: Evidence from the London Fog (with Katherin Sudol)
Status: New draft completed July 9, 2018. Available upon request.
Data Resources
British Patent Classification Database, 1855-1882
Database of all British patents from 1855-1882 with technology classifications from the British Patent Office
British City-Industry Database, 1851-1911
Database describing employment in 26 private sector industries in 31 large English cities from 1851-1911
Version 2.0: Updated March, 2016