W. Walker Hanlon
Teaching
Current
- Introductory Microeconomics (undergraduate)
Previous
Research
Published and Accepted Papers
(reverse chronological order)History and Urban Economics (Review article, with Stephan Heblich)
Status: Accepted at Regional Science and Urban Economics
Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866-1965 (with Casper Worm Hansen and Jake Kantor)
Accepted at the Journal of Economic History.
Coverage: VoxEU
The Persistent Effect of Temporary Input Cost Advantages in Shipbuilding, 1850-1911
Accepted at the Journal of the European Economic Association
Previously circulated as "Evolving Comparative Advantage in International Shipbuilding During the Transition from Wood to Steel"
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.
Book Project
The Great Laissez-Faire Experiment (And Why It Failed)
Status: Under contract, Princeton University Press
Working Papers
Recessions, Mortality, and Migration Bias: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (with V. Arthi and B. Beach)
Status: Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Previously circulated as "Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship when Migration Matters"
London Fog: A Century of Pollution and Mortality, 1866-1965
Status: R&R, Review of Economics and Statistics
Spillover Effects of IP Protection in the Inter-war Aircraft Industry (with Taylor Jaworski)
Status: Draft updated June 12, 2020
Coverage: VoxEU
Culture and the Historical Fertility Transition (with Brian Beach)
Status: Updated November 18, 2020.
Coverage: VoxEU
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
Status: Draft updated November 17, 2020
Work in progress
Knowledge Flows and Patents: Evidence from the Uniform Penny Post
(with Stephan Heblich and Ferdinando Monte)
Status: First draft in progress
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