Contact Information

University of Bonn, Department of Economics

Adenauerallee 24 - 42, 53113 Bonn, Germany

tanutama@uni-bonn.de

 

 

Publications

 

Urbanization and decentralization in the Congo: Examining governance in rural towns

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

World Development: 199 (2026) 107219

 

 

Working Papers

 

The Social Fabric of Corruption: A Field Experiment in Congo’s Public Transport

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

Revision requested at Journal of Public Economics

 

Game, Sweat, Match: Temperature and Elite Worker Productivity

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

Revision requested at Nature Communications

 

State Expansion and Social Responses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

(with Soeren Henn)

 

Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output

(with Marshall Burke)

 

 

Selected Work in Progress

 

The Organization of Economic Rents among Political Elites

 

The Effects of Political Competition on Candidate Selection

 

Capacity Constrained Fiscal Federalism: Evidence from the World’s Most Decentralized Intergovernmental Transfer to 75,000 Indonesian Villages (with Raúl Duarte)

 

The Electoral Consequences of Decentralization Reform in the DRC (with Soeren Henn and Gildfred Asiamah)