Research

Working Papers

The value of face-to-face: Search and contracting problems in Nigerian trade  (Appendix) (Revise & resubmit at Econometrica)

Cutting out the middleman: The structure of chains of intermediation (with Matthew Grant) (Revise & resubmit at the American Economic Review)

Search costs, intermediation, and trade: Experimental evidence from Ugandan agricultural markets (with Lauren Bergquist and Craig McIntosh)

Business training and spatial competition in urban Uganda (with Greg Fischer, Dean Karlan, and Diego Santa Maria) (Draft available on request)

Publications

Belief in COVID-19 misinformation in Nigeria (Appendix) (working paper version) (with Josh Goldstein and Shelby Grossman). Journal of Politics, 2024

Blue porches: Finding the limits of external validity of the endowment effect (with Gharad Bryan, Matthew Grant, Kareem Haggag, Dean Karlan, and Chris Udry). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020. 

Work in Progress

Reputation and relational contracting: Experimental evidence on contracting frictions in West African trade (with Shelby Grossman)

Quality, contracting, and competition in developing country supply chains (with Lauren Bergquist)

Tracing Nigerian supply chains (with Matthew Grant)

Business-to-business information sharing and the foundations of reputational motives for contract compliance (with Shelby Grossman and Morgan Hardy)

Other research

Agricultural Technology in Africa (with Tavneet Suri, Chris Udry, Jenny Aker, Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Thomas Jayne, Jeremy Magruder, Hope Michelson, and Emilia Tjernstrom) VoxDevLit, 2022 and 2024.

International Trade and Economic Development (with David Atkin, Amit Khandelwal, Laura Boudreau, Rafael Dix Carneiro, Isabela Manelici, Pamela Medina, Brian McCaig, Ameet Morjaria, Luigi Pascali, and Bob Rijkers) VoxDevLit, 2022.

How COVID-19 has affected Lagos traders: Findings from high frequency phone surveys (with Hakeem Bishi and Shelby Grossman), 2021.