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My research focuses on the origins and consequences of economic institutions in rural West Africa.

Working papers:
  • Ecology, trade, and states in pre-colonial Africa (Web Appendix)
  • African polygamy: Past and present (Web Appendix)
  • Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade (with Namrata Kala)
  • Does land abundance explain African institutions? (Web Appendix, Matches)
  • Imachi nkwu: Trade and the commons (Sample Case)
  • Revealed preference tests of the Cournot model (with Andrés Carvajal, Rahul Deb, and John Quah) 
  • "Rubber will not keep in this country": Failed development in Benin, 1897-1921
  • Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin
  • The battle for rubber in Benin
Published research:
  • Partition, migration, and jute cultivation in India (with Prashant Bharadwaj), Forthcoming, Journal of Development Studies
  • Land abundance and economic institutions: Egba land and slavery, 1830-1914, 2012, Economic History Review
  • Land tenure and investment incentives: Evidence from West Africa (Web Appendix), 2011, Journal of Development Economics
  • L'Étranger: Status, property rights, and investment incentives in Cote d'Ivoire, 2010, Land Economics
Other publications:
  • Property rights in rural West Africa: Causes and consequences (Dissertation summary), 2011, Journal of Economic History
  • The causal history of Africa: A response to Hopkins (Literature review), 2010, Economic History of Developing Regions 
    • Comments by Hopkins and Jerven, and my reply.

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