Publications

2024

The Welfare Effects of Mobile Broadband Internet: Evidence from Nigeria.” (With Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Xavier Pedros, Tobias Pfutze, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Hernan Winkler). Journal of Development Economics.

2023

Mobile Broadband Internet, Poverty and Labor Outcomes in Tanzania.” (With Kalvin Bahia, Pau Castells, Genaro Cruz, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán and Viviane Sanfelice). World Bank Economic Review lhad003, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhad003.

2022

Small Area Estimation of Non-monetary Poverty with Geospatial Data.” (With David Newhouse, Ani Rudra Silwal, Adane Bedada and Ryan Engstrom). Statistical Journal of the IAOS 38: 1035–1051.

Mobile Internet Adoption in West Africa.” (With Rogelio Granguillhome Ochoaa, Samantha Lacha, Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán). Technology in Society 68.

2021

Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries.” (With Bradley C Parks, Jörg Faust, Stefan Leiderer, Matthew D DiLorenzo). Studies in Comparative International Development 56: 364–383.

2020

When do performance assessments influence policy behavior? Micro-evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey.” (With Bradley C. Parks). The Review of International Organizations 15: 371–408.

2018

The Impact of Intergovernmental Transfers on Local Revenue Generation in Africa: Evidence from Tanzania.” World Development 106: 173-186.

The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia.” African Studies Review 61(1): 55-82.

2017

Moving Forward with Time Series Analysis.” (With Peter Enns, Nathan Kelly and Patrick Wohlfarth). Research and Politics 4(4): 1-7.

Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effects.” (With Thomas B. Pepinsky and Marc F. Bellemare). Journal of Politics 79(3): 949-963.

2016

Don’t Jettison the General Error Correction Model Just Yet: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Spurious Regression with the GECM.” (With Peter Enns, Nathan Kelly and Patrick Wohlfarth). Research and Politics 3(2): 1-13.

Coups d’Etat and Foreign Aid.” World Development 79: 51-68.