Research

 Publications

1. Are heavy-rainfall events a major trigger of associated natural hazards along the German rail network? (2025) Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 25: 683-707. (Joint with S. Szymczak, F. Bott, & K. Fricke)

2. Social Mobility and Education Policy: A District Level Analysis of Legislative Behavior. (2024) Socio-Economic Review. 22(2): 533-571. (Joint with L. Bellani & K. Berriochoa)

3. Strategic Compromise, Policy Bundling and Interest Group Power: Theory and Evidence on Education Policy. (2023) European Journal of Political Economy. 7(3): 102283.  (Joint with L. Bellani & F. Scervini)

4. Estimating railway resilience curves: Recovery duration and train traffic response to flood and tree fall. (2023) Transport Research Procedia. 72: 1918-1925. (Joint with S. Szymczak)

5. Resilience of railway transport to four types of natural hazards: An analysis of daily train volumes. (2021) Infrastructures. 6(12): 174. (Joint with S. Szymczak)

6. Political-economic determinants of education reform: Evidence on interest groups and student outcomes. (2017) European Journal of Political Economy. 48: 144-161.

7. Do piped water and flush toilets prevent child diarrhea in rural Philippines? (2015) Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health. 27(2): 2122-2132. (Joint with  J. Capuno and C. Tan Jr.)

8. Does yardstick competition influence local government fiscal behavior in the Philippines? (2015) In J. P. Faguet & C. Pöschl (Eds.) Is decentralization good for development? Perspectives for academics and policy makers. Oxford University Press. (Joint with J. Capuno, S. Quimbo, A. Kraft, C. Tan Jr.)

9. Democracy and poverty reduction. (2008) Philippine Review of Economics. 45(2): 235-269. (Joint with C. Oyales)