Selected Publications
The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts (with Amal Ahmad, Sebastian Vollmer), RAND Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
General vs. Tailored Information for Technology Adoption: Evidence from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in India (with Sebastian Vollmer), Journal of Development Economics, accepted (pre-results track).
Technology Adoption under Costly Information Processing, International Economic Review, 2022, 63(2), 699-753.
The Demand for Advice: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (with Matthias Schündeln), World Bank Economic Review, 2022, 36(1), 91-113. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9532]
The Social Planning Problem with Costly Information Processing: Towards Understanding Production Decisions in Centralized Economies, Economica, 2023, 90(357), 285-314.
Other Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Assessing the Adoption and Outcomes of Early-Sown Wheat Varieties in Northwest India (with Basma Albanna, Gunnar Hesch, Daniel Otto, Meha Jain, Mohammad Hassan, Sebastian Vollmer, Hanna Ewell, Raphael Nawrotzki), International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2026, 24(1), 2603756.
Does Adoption of Zero Tillage Reduce Crop Residue Burning? Evidence from Satellite Remote Sensing and Household Survey Data in India (with Virginia Ziulu), Applied Economics, forthcoming. [Working Paper]
Fiscal Pro-Cyclicality Revisited: Global, Regional, and Country-Level Evidence with a Spotlight on MENA (with Želko Bogetić), Economic Analysis and Policy, 87(2025), 569-584. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 10959]
Evaluating Accession Decisions in Customs Unions: A Dynamic Machine Learning Approach (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber), International Economics and Economic Policy, 2025, 22(2), 1-27. [UNU-CRIS Working Paper, No. 24-04]
Cash for Coolers or Sustainable Lighting? Assessing Different Components of a Large-Scale Energy Efficiency Program in Mexico (with Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu), Journal of Development Studies, 2024, 60(4), 479-493. [Working Paper]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: New Evidence on Alternative Views of Corruption (with Željko Bogetić), Applied Economics, 2024, 56(33), 4019-4032. [Working Paper]
The Relevance of Development Policies to Confront Crisis Situations: World Bank’s Early Response to Covid-19 (with Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu), Journal of Policy Modeling, 2024, 46(5), 847-866. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9935]
Corruption and Government Revenue: Evidence of a Non-Linear Relationship Driven by Crises (with Željko Bogetić), Journal of Applied Economics, 2024, 27(1), 1-17.
Intelligent Computational Methods for Economics: Editorial (with Takfarinas Saber, Malika Bendechache), Expert Systems, 2024, 41(2), e13523.
Regional Economic Integration and Machine Learning: Policy Insights from the Review of Literature (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber, Hung Vo), Journal of Policy Modeling, 2023, 45(5), 1077-1097. [Working Paper]
On the Optimal Size and Composition of Customs Unions: An Evolutionary Approach (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber), Computational Economics, 2023, 62, 1457–1479.
Impacts of Energy Efficiency Projects in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Spatial Difference-in-Differences Analysis in Malawi (with Raghavan Narayanan, Virginia Ziulu), Energy for Sustainable Development, 2023, 73, 365-375. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9842]
Measuring Untapped Revenue Potential in Developing Countries: Cross-Country Frontier and Panel Data Analysis (with Željko Bogetić, Raghavan Narayanan), Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, 2023, 38(1), 89-127. [World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, No. 9776]
Attracting Private Capital for Development: Are Poorer Countries Less Efficient? (with Raghavan Narayanan), International Economics and Economic Policy, 2023, 20, 1-26.
Do Democracies Perform Worse During Pandemics? Evidence from 2020 (with Yuyang He), Economics Bulletin, 2022, 42(3), 1681-1687.
Regional Integration Clusters and Optimum Customs Unions: A Machine Learning Approach (with Philippe De Lombaerde, Takfarinas Saber), Journal of Economic Integration, 2021, 36(2), 262-281. [UNU-CRIS Working Paper, No. 21-04]
Untapped Regional Integration Potential: A Global Frontier Analysis (with Raghavan Narayanan), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2020, 29(6), 722-747. [Working Paper]
An Empirical Estimation of Asia’s Untapped Regional Integration Potential Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Asian Development Review, 2015, 32(2), 178-195. [ADB Economics Working Paper, No. 445]
Dataset
Household and Plot-level Survey Data on Adoption, Outcomes, and Perceptions of Early Sown Wheat and Zero Tillage in Northwest India (with Basma Albanna, Abhijeet Kumar, Sebastian Vollmer), Scientific Data, 2023, 10(516), 1-5. [Data]
Book Chapters
Applications of Data Envelopment Analysis to Evaluate Resource Mobilization and Regional Integration Outcomes: Recent Trends and Future Challenges (with Raghavan Narayanan). In: Handbook on Data Envelopment Analysis in Business, Finance, and Sustainability: Recent Trends and Developments, S. Boubaker and T. Ngo (Eds.), World Scientific, 2024.
Hunger, Food Insecurity, and Poverty Traps: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries. In: Economics in Action: Topics and Resources, T. Brancaccio, Y. Deli, I. Pastine, and C. Whelan (Eds.), McGraw-Hill, 2019.
Working Papers
Scaling Information Access: Evidence from a Nationwide Digital Policy in China (with Shilong Zhao, Juan Liu, Junqiao Ma), World Development, R&R (2nd round).
Countercyclical Fiscal Policy, Women, and the Poor (with Željko Bogetić, Shiyun Hu, Luan Zhao, Yahui Zhao), Labour, R&R.
Drought and Intimate Partner Violence: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Hanne Schwabe), Journal of Environment and Development, R&R.
The Long-term Consequences of the Global 1918 Influenza Pandemic: A Systematic Analysis of Census Data from 51 Countries (with Juditha Wójcik, Christian Bommer, Sebastian Vollmer).
Work in Progress
Backfiring Effects of Category-Specific Information Provision in a Pricing Model with Rationally Inattentive Buyers (with Sergey Turlo).
The Effect of Improvements in Agricultural Productivity on Child Labor: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the Green Revolution (with Matthias Schündeln).
Rain and Children: The Effect of Climate Change on Fertility in Tanzania (with Geofrey Mushibi).
The Economic Lives of the Poor Revisited (with Sebastian Vollmer).