Research

I. Publications:

(1) Ethnic Politics and Ebola Response in West Africa (World Development, 2020)

(2) Transport Infrastructure and Agglomeration in Cities (with Harris Selod in Raising the Bar for Productive Cities in Latin America and the Caribbean, Latin America and Caribbean Studies World Bank 2018)

(3) Export Taxes and Consumption: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire's De Facto Partition (Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2017)

(4) Leadership Favoritism in Africa (Applied Economics Letters, 2015)

II. Working Papers

(1) Big Data in Transportation: An Economics Perspective (with Harris Selod)

(2) Highway Politics in a Divided Government: Evidence from Mexico (with Harris Selod)

II. Work in Progress

(1) Rising Incomes and Demand for Infrastructure (with Stéphane Straub Toulouse School of Economics and The World Bank, Théophile Bougna, The World Bank)

(2) Rule of Law and Natural Resource Use: Evidence from Deforestation in Côte d'Ivoire (with Jonah Busch, Center for Global Development)

(3) Stop That Train I'm Starving: Access to Market and Rural Poverty in Côte d'Ivoire

(4) Effects of Peace on Corruption in Côte d'Ivoire (with Jeremy Foltz and Mengwei Lin)

III. Blogs

(1) "Did Political Exclusion Lead to Higher Rates of Ebola in West Africa?" Center for Global Development Policy Blog, 2016.

(2) "High Agricultural Export Taxes May Be Self-Defeating: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire," Center for Global Development Policy Blog, 2016.

(3) "Welfare Gains from Freer Trade" World Bank's Development Impact Blog, 2015.

Conference Presentations:

  • Western Economic Association International Conference 2016, Portland OR.
  • Annual World Bank Conference on Africa, ABCA 2015, University of California at Berkeley.
  • Centre for the Study of African Economies Annual Conference CSAE 2015, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Missouri Valley Economic Association 51st Annual Meeting in St. Louis MO.
  • Midwest Economic Theory and International Trade Meetings Fall 2104, The University of Kansas, Lawrence KS.
  • Eastern Economic Association 39th Annual Meeting in New York City NY.