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.