Research

Working Papers

The Price of Faith: Economic Costs and Religious Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
with Dean Yang and Triana Yentzen

Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil
  with Jon Denton-Schneider

Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights

  with Etienne LeRossignol and Sara Lowes

Journal Articles

 Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
  with Zach Y. Brown, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, and Maria Micaela Sviatschi
  Forthcoming, Review of Economic Studies
  Media: ProMarket, The Guardian, El Diario de Hoy

Religious Festivals and Economic Development: Evidence from the Timing of Mexican Saint Day Festivals
  with Dean Yang
  American Economic Review. 2022; 112(10): 3176–3214. [Appendix] [Slides]
  Media: NBER Digest, Marginal Revolution, The Hindu

The Effects of Fair Trade Certification: Evidence from Coffee Producers in Costa Rica
  with Raluca Dragusanu and Nathan Nunn
  Journal of the European Economic Association. 2022; 20(4): 1743-1790. [Appendix] [Slides]

Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador
  Journal of Political Economy. 2022; 130(1): 48-93. [Appendix] [Erratum]

Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule: Evidence from the Congo Free State
  with Sara Lowes
  Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2021; 136(4): 2047-2091. [Appendix]
  Media: VoxDev


The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa
  with Sara Lowes
  American Economic Review. 2021; 111(4): 1284-1314. [Appendix] [Slides]
  Media: AEA Research Brief, VoxEU, VoxDev, AEHN

Work in Progress


Bokoko: Supernatural Authority and Political Power in the DRC
with Sara Lowes, Nathan Nunn, and James A. Robinson

African Origins of Development in the Colombian Pacific
  with Juan Sebastián Galán

Age Organization and Accountability: Evidence from the DRC
  with Sara Lowes, Nathan Nunn, and James A. Robinson

Book Chapters and Non-Peer Reviewed Publications

Traditional Medicine in Central Africa
with Sara Lowes
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109: 516–520.

King Leopold’s Ghost: The Legacy of Labor Coercion in the DRC
  with Sara Lowes
  The Long Economic Shadow of History
  Edited by Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou. Vol. II.
  CEPR/VOXEU. 2017. Publisher's Version