Research

The Agricultural Wage Gap Within Rural Villages with Manzoor H. Dar, Kyle Emerick, Zhimin Li, and Elisabeth Sadoulet, Journal of Development Economics, May 2024, 168, 103270.

Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey, American Economic Review, November 2022, 112(11): 3528-46. [Supplementary background information and description of qualitative fieldwork] [Replication Package][Online Appendix]

Building Social Cohesion in Ethnically Mixed Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking ​with Sule Alan, Mert Gumren, and Elif Kubilay, Quarterly Journal of Economics, March 2021, 136(4): 2147-2194. 

Non-Economic Factors in Violence: Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides & Climate in Mexico, with Marshall Burke, Felipe Gonzalez, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 2019, 168, 434--452. [Replication data]

Effect of High Ambient Temperature on Suicide Rates in the United States and Mexico with Marshall Burke, Felipe Gonzalez, Patrick Baylis, Sam Heft-Neal, Sanjay Basu, and Sol Hsiang, Nature Climate Change, 2018.

WORKING PAPERS

Misperceptions and Demand for Democracy under Authoritarianism with Daron Acemoglu, Cevat Aksoy, Carlos Molina, and Gamze Zeki, March 2025, NBER Working Paper 33018; CEPR Discussion Paper 19536.

SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS

Demand for Gender Equality under Conservatism with Carlos Molina, Antonia Paredes-Haz, and Gamze Zeki (draft in progress) 

Diversity, Social Integration, and Business Networks with Onur Altindag, Lydia Assouad, Carlos Molina, and Miray Omurtak (in the field)