Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Literary networks: Agglomeration, peers, and productivity, Journal of Cultural Economics (2026), with Sara Mitchell. Data and code: github.com/lkuld/Mitchell-Kuld-Literary-Networks-JCE
Accountability in the delivery of guaranteed employment through MGNREGA in rural India, Review of Development Economics (2026), with Tara Bedi.
Manhattan Transfer: Heterogeneous productivity effects of agglomeration in American authorship, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2025), with Sara Mitchell and Christiane Hellmanzik.
Market structure and creative cluster formation: The origins of urban clusters in German literature, 1700-1932, European Review of Economic History (2023), with Sara Mitchell. Data and code: github.com/lkuld/KuldMitchellEREH
No place like home: Geography and culture in the dissemination of economic research articles, Empirical Economics (2020), with Christiane Hellmanzik.
Rise of multi-authored papers in economics: Demise of the ‘lone star’ and why?, Scientometrics (2018), with John O’Hagan.

Book chapters

Multi-authored journal articles in economics: Why the spiralling upward trend? In: Sebastian Galiani, Ugo Panizza (eds.), Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics, CEPR Press 2020, with John O’Hagan.

Blog posts