Jonathan Dries

PhD Candidate in Economics, Luiss Guido Carli University · www.jonathandries.com · jvdries@luiss.it

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Job Market Paper

• The Cultural Foundations of State Legitimacy: Kinship Intensity and Institutional Mismatch
  Frank D. Lewis Memorial Prize in Economic History, 2026 (certificate)

Working Papers

• Corporations as the State: Urbanisation, Women’s Empowerment, and Long-Run Development in the Copperbelt
  Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of Development Economics
• The Origins of Superstition: Environmental Volatility and Magical Beliefs (slides)
• The Dispossessed: Large-Scale Land Acquisitions, Elite Capture, and Dissent in Africa (slides)

Software

• rddid: Stata package for Difference-in-Discontinuities (ssc install rddid)