• The People's Voice and Access to Sanitation (with Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Johnson Kakeu, Cristelle Kouame)  World Bank Working Paper

Summary: We estimate the causal effect of voice and accountability, which captures transparent electoral process, free media, and freedom of expression, on access to sanitation services in developing countries. We find that voice and accountability has a positive effect on access to sanitation and closes the rural-urban gap in access to sanitation.

• ``Crowding in" of Private Investment and Returns to Public Investment Revisited (with Maty Konte and Franz Ulrich)

Summary: we study the effect of public investment on private investment under imperfect capital markets in emerging and developing countries. 

• Government Consumption Multipliers: Evidence from an Instrument-free Identification Strategy (with Andrew Keinsley and Maty Konte)

Summary: This paper uses a new instrument-free identification strategy to estimate the government consumption multiplier in advanced economies. Guided by the identification strategy postulates endogeneity correlation coefficient values between government consumption and the error term in the regression to correct for potential bias from the standard OLS estimator

• Cross Country Heterogeneity, Financial development and Long-run Growth: New Methods for Old Questions (with Alberto Posso, Rafi Nurul and Lwanga Elizabeth Nanziri) Submitted at Annals of Finance