on appointment

• Standard of Living and human capital formation in the Portuguese speaking world
  
  
• Human capital selectivity of international migrants

• Convergence and Divergenco of Numeracy: The Development of Age Heaping in Latin America, 17th to 20th centuries, (with Kerstin Manzel and Joerg Baten), forthcoming in Economic History Review.
• When and why did the Portuguese become the shortest in Europe?
  The biological standard of living in Portugal 1720-1980 (with Joerg Baten and Jaime Reis)
• Biological Standard of Living in Angola and Guinea-Bissau 1890-1940
• ‘Human Capital Formation in Brazil in the Long Run: Growth Effects of Immigration to Brazil’, Working Paper (with Joerg Baten and Tarcísio Botelho)
• Male, Young and Single? A glance at gendered human capital selectivities in 19th century mass migrations. Working Paper.
• Brain Drain, Skill Premia and Human Capital Selectivity
  

  of International Migrants, 1850-1910: Reassessing the Roy-Borjas Model
  (with Joerg Baten)

15th March - 15th June 2009

• Visiting Research Fellow at the ICS, Universidade de Lisboa, ESF Globaleuronet Scholarship

29th June - 3rd Juli 2009

• Growth and Globalization: Hardships Barriers and Economic Policies University of Lisbon. Summer School (2009). ESF Globaleuronet Scholarship

3rd August - 7th August 2009

• XVth World Economic History Congress Utrecht 2009

04th September - 05th September 2009

• Eighth Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Geneva

 06th Mai 2010

• Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History, University of Oxford

28th August - 29th August 2010

• Human Capital Workshop Tuebingen 2011, Co-Organizer

06th April - 09th April 2011

• NORFACE Migration Network Conference on "Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge", University College London

Summer 2010:

International Migrations in Historical Perspective
(Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Migration, Proseminar)

Winter 2010/2011:

STATA-Kurs
(Introduction into STATA: Quantitative Methods for Economic Historians)