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recent papers Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling (with Masyhur Hilmy and Benjamin Marx) Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Martin Fiszbein and Mesay Gebresilasse) Accepted, Journal of Public Economics. Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of "Rugged Individualism" in the United States (with Martin Fiszbein and Mesay Gebresilasse) Econometrica, December 2020. The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia (with Benjamin Marx and Gabriel Koehler-Derrick) Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2020. Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building (with Arya Gaduh, Alex Rothenberg, and Maisy Wong) American Economic Review, November 2019. The Political Boundaries of Ethnic Divisions (with Matthew Gudgeon) Forthcoming, AEJ: Applied Economics. The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia (with Robert Blair, Christopher Blattman, Oeindrila Dube, Matthew Gudgeon, and Richard Peck) Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics. Deterring Illegal Entry: Migrant Sanctions and Recidivism in Border Apprehensions (with Sarah Burns, Gordon Hanson, Bryan Roberts, and John Whitley) Forthcoming, AEJ: Economic Policy. |
