Max Satchell

TL;DR: The authors examined the role of contagion in the spread of the Swing riots of 1830-31 and found that local sources of information were central in driving contagion, and that this contagion magnified the impact that social and economic fundamentals had on riots by a factor of 2.65.

TL;DR: In this article, the information that drives social unrest often begins suddenly and spreads quickly, and how this information is transmitted and who responds to this information, and who is involved in the diffusion of this information.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the long-term imprinting effect by using the distance to coalfields as an exogenous instrument for the regional presence of large-scale industries and found that British regions with high employment shares of large scale industries in the 19th century, due to their spatial proximity to coal mines, have lower entrepreneurship rates and weaker entrepreneurship culture today.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how railways led to local population change and divergence in England and Wales as it underwent dramatic urbanization and make use of detailed data on railway stations, population, and occupational structure in more than 9000 spatial units.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between the historical employment share in large-scale coal-based industries (coal mining and steam-powered manufacturing industries that used this coal as fuel for their steam engines) and today's regional variation in personality and well-being.