Peer-reviewed publications
The Political Transfer Problem: Resource Windfalls and Comparative Democratization and Conflict (with Faisel Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker). Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020. Forthcoming. Final working paper available here.
Labor protection laws and the drain on productivity: Evidence from India. Review of Development Economics, 2020. 24(2): 33-45. Final working paper available here. Data and code for the paper can be downloaded here.
SARS-CoV-2 Community Transmission disproportionately affects Latinx population during Shelter-in-Place in San Francisco (with Gabriel Chamie and 18 other coauthors). Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020. Published open source here.
Are economic rents good for development? Evidence from the manufacturing sector (with Eric Werker). World Development, December 2018. Vol. 112: 33-45. Published open source here. Data and code for the paper can be downloaded here.
Other publications
Corruption in the Bidding, Construction, and Organisation of Mega-Events: An Analysis of the Olympics and World Cup (with Patrick Koval and Victor Matheson), 2018. In ed. Markus Breuer and David Forrest, The Palgrave Handbook on the Economics of the Manipulation in Sport (pp. 257-278). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Why we need COVID-related whistleblower protections (with Matthew S. Johnson). The Hill, 2020. Available here.
Working papers
Workplace safety and the minimum wage: Evidence from the restaurant industry (with William LaFiandra). Working paper from February 21, 2020 here.
Legal Protection Against Retaliatory Firing Improves Workplace Safety (with Matthew S. Johnson and Patrick Koval). Working paper from November 2, 2020 here.
Work in progress
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Personal Bankruptcy Filing