Jeffrey L. Jensen

Book

• Representation and Taxation in the American South, 1820–1910 With Giuliana Pardelli and Jeffrey Timmons. Cambridge University Press, 2024. Elements in Political Economy. Publisher Manuscript (PDF)

Peer-reviewed articles

1. New Estimates of U.S. Civil War Mortality from Full-Census Records With Joan Barceló, Leonid Peisakhin, and Haoyu Zhai. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(48). Journal Coverage in the New York Times
2. When Do Economic Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South With Giuliana Pardelli and Jeffrey Timmons. Journal of Politics, 2023, 85(2): 453–467. Journal PDF
3. Language Models in Sociological Research: An Application to Classifying Large Administrative Data and Measuring Religiosity With Daniel Karell, Cole Tanigawa-Lau, Nizar Habash, Mai Oudah, and Dhia Fairus Shofia Fani. Sociological Methodology, 2022, 52(1): 30–52. Journal PDF
4. Sustaining Democracy with Force: Black Representation During Reconstruction With Mario Chacón and Sidak Yntiso. Journal of Historical Political Economy, 2021, 1(3): 319–351. Special issue on “Slavery and Its Legacies.” Journal PDF
5. Going Postal: State Capacity and Violent Dispute Resolution With Adam Ramey. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48(4): 779–796. Journal PDF
6. Early Investments in State Capacity Promote Persistently Higher Levels of Social Capital With Adam Ramey. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 117(20): 10755–10761. Journal
7. Direct Democracy, Constitutional Reform, and Political Inequality in Post-Colonial America With Mario Chacón. Studies in American Political Development, 2020, 34(1): 148–169. Journal PDF
8. The Political and Economic Geography of Southern Secession With Mario Chacón. Journal of Economic History, 2020, 80(2): 386–416. Journal PDF
9. Democratization, De Facto Power, and Taxation: Evidence from Military Occupation during Reconstruction With Mario Chacón. World Politics, 2020, 72(1): 1–46. Journal PDF
10. Economic Geography, Political Inequality, and Public Goods in the Original 13 U.S. States With Pablo Beramendi. Comparative Political Studies, 2019, 52(13–14): 2235–2282. Journal PDF
11. Democratic Reversals and the Size of Government With Sidak Yntiso. European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 58: 1215–1233. Journal PDF
12. Revisiting the Democracy–Private Investment Nexus: Does Inequality Matter? With Kemal Kıvanç Aköz, Benjamin Barber, and Christina Zenker. Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46(4): 1215–1233. Journal PDF
13. The Influence of Federal Laboratory R&D on Industrial ResearchPre-PhD With James Adams and Eric Chiang. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85(4): 1003–1020. Journal JSTOR

Under review

• The Strategic Origins of Post-Conflict Memorialization With Joan Barceló and Leonid Peisakhin. Revise and resubmit (second round) at the American Political Science Review. Working paper (PDF)
• The Fiscal Consequences of Black Disenfranchisement during Jim Crow for Southern Whites With Giuliana Pardelli, Tereza Petrovicova, and Jeffrey Timmons. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Politics. Working paper (PDF)
• The Right Reaction? Evidence of Reactive Partisan Media Exposure During the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests With Elisabeth Anderson and Daniel Karell. Working paper (PDF)