All Outputs (8)

Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women (2025)
Journal Article
Rueda, V., & Morgan Collins, M. (in press). Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women. British Journal of Political Science,

Can political activism foster electoral participation? We investigate this question by examining the role of the British suffragists in fostering women’s electoral participation. While scholars have shown that women politicians increase women’s parti... Read More about Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women.

“Notre-taxe de Paris”, tax expenditures with two public goods (2023)
Journal Article
Rueda, V., & Wilemme, G. (2023). “Notre-taxe de Paris”, tax expenditures with two public goods. Revue Economique, 74(6), 1053-1065. https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.746.1053

This article presents a new efficiency-equity trade-off when setting up tax rebates in the presence of multiple goods. Although tax rebates can efficiently raise more public funds, they can also alter the mix of public goods. We find the condition fo... Read More about “Notre-taxe de Paris”, tax expenditures with two public goods.

Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States (2023)
Book Chapter
Rueda, V. (2023). Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States. In R. Sauer (Ed.), World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration : Volume 3: Types of Migrants and Economies: A Global Perspective. World Scientific

Do ancestry differences at the local level have persistent effects on economic success inside the United States? Using data from the American Community Survey, and genetic and cultural measures of ancestry distance from the recent literature, this ar... Read More about Does it Really Matter How Different We Are? Ancestry Distances and Income in the United States.

Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy (2023)
Journal Article
A'Hearn, B., & Rueda, V. (2023). Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy. Journal of Economic History, 83(3), 747-785. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000256

We offer new evidence on the spatial economic impact of Italian unification. Adopting municipal population as a proxy for local economic activity, we construct a new geocoded dataset spanning the pre- and post-unification periods and discover robust... Read More about Internal Borders and Population Geography in the Unification of Italy.

Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market (2023)
Journal Article
Eberhardt, M., Facchini, G., & Rueda, V. (2023). Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market. Economic Journal, 133(655), 2676-2708. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead045

Academia, and economics in particular, faces increased scrutiny because of gender imbalance. This paper studies the job market for entry-level faculty positions. We employ machine learning methods to analyze gendered patterns in the text of 12,000 re... Read More about Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market.

Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Pengl, Y. I., Roessler, P., & Rueda, V. (2022). Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa. American Political Science Review, 116(1), 181-199. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421000782

What are the origins of the ethnic landscapes in contemporary states? Drawing on a preregistered research design, we test the influence of dual socioeconomic revolutions that spread throughout Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - ex... Read More about Cash Crops, Print Technologies, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa.

Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Cagé, J., & Rueda, V. (2020). Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Demographic Economics, 86(3), 213-257. https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2019.16

This article investigates the long-term impact of historical missionary activity on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. On the one hand, missionaries were the first to invest in modern medicine in the region. On the other hand, Christianity influenced sexual... Read More about Sex and the mission: the conflicting effects of early Christian missions on HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Cagé, J., & Rueda, V. (2016). The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(3), 69-99. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20140379

This article investigates the long-term consequences of the printing press in the nineteenth century sub-Saharan Africa on social capital nowadays. Protestant missionaries were the first to import the printing press and to allow the indigenous popula... Read More about The Long-Term Effects of the Printing Press in sub-Saharan Africa.