Research

Publications:

1. Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Power,  with Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke and Atheendar Venkataramani; Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 21, Issue 5, October 2023, Pages 2172–2208  (Media coverage: El Pais (Planeta Futuro), VoxDev, Ideas for India); 

Data and replication code

2. The Health Costs of Ethnic Distance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa,   Journal of Economic Growth, May 2020 (Media coverage: El Pais (Planeta Futuro))

3. The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization,  with Alex Armand and Paul Atwell; American Economic Review, 2020, 110(5): 1395–1429 (Media coverage: AEA Research Highlights, El Pais (Planeta Futuro), RES Media Briefing, World Bank IE); 

Data and replication code

4. The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods, with Klaus Desmet, and Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín;  Journal of Development Economics, Volume 143, March 2020, 102384 (Media coverage VOXEU, Quartz,  La Vanguardia (in Spanish))

Local Linguistic Diversity dataset and replication code

5. Linguistic Fractionalization and Health Information in Sub-Saharan Africa, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 34, February 2020, (Supplementary Article)

6. The Political Economy of the Maoist Conflict in India: An empirical Analysis, World Development, Volume 68, April 2015, Pages 96–123, 2015

Maoist Conflict Data

Working Papers:

7. Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access, with Klaus Desmet and Diego Malo Rico; NBER Working Paper #30678, CEPR Discussion Paper #17895, November 2024  (Revise & Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics)

8. Media Narratives and the Rise of Civil Rights, with Alex Armand, Paul Atwell, Giuseppe Musillo and Yannik Schenk;  CEPR Discussion Paper #18207, April 2025

9. Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Voice: Historical Evidence from the US, with Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke and Atheendar Venkataramani ; CEPR Discussion Paper #18013, March 2023

10. Religious Diversity, Intolerance, and Civil Conflict, UC3M Working Paper no. wp13-11, May 2013 (Mothballed project)

Work in Progress:

11. Symbolic Policies Cause Economic Harm: Cognitive and Behavioural Responses to Nationalist Exclusion, with Ritwik Banerjee, Amma Panin and Emmy Lindstam (Draft coming soon.)

12. Climate and Mental Health, with Sonia Bhalotra and Irma Clots-Figueras (Mothballed project) 

13. Ethnic Heterogeneity in India, with Klaus Desmet and Romain Wacziarg

14. Maternal Mortality and Female Life Expectancy: The role of Gender Inequality, with Sonia Bhalotra, Damian Clarke and Atheendar Venkataramani; Read related RES Media Briefing, Column on Ideas for India (Mothballed project)