Working Papers

 

On The Institutional Foundations of Corrupt Exchange: Social Relationships and Joint Profit in Kinshasa (Aug 2023)

(with Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, Kristof Titeca, Aimable Lameke, and Albert Malukisa) (NBER Working Paper 31286)

 

Decentralization in a Weak State (Feb 2023)

(with Soeren Henn, Aimable Lameke, and Christian Mugaruka) (IGC Working Paper)

 

Game, Sweat, Match: Temperature and Elite Worker Productivity (Aug 2019)

(with Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal, Miyuki Hino, and David Lobell)

 

Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output (May 2019)

(with Marshall Burke) (NBER Working Paper 25779)

 

Selected Work in Progress

 

The Organization of Economic Rents among Political Elites

 

State-Building at the Intensive Margin

(with Soeren Henn, Aimable Lameke, and Christian Mugaruka)

 

Decentralizing Intergovernmental Grants

(with Raúl Duarte)