Ayesh, Abubakr (2023). Burned Agricultural Biomass, Air Pollution and Crime. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Ayesh, Abubakr (2024). Mass Involuntary Migration and Educational Attainment. World Development.
Assimilative Education Policy in Canada, 1900-1939. (with Donn. Feir, Maggie Jones, Rob Gillezeau, & Samuel Shipley). Submitted.
Does Terrorism in Non-War Zones Impact Labor Market Outcomes? (with Eduardo Nakasone). [Slides from updated empirical analysis; revised draft to be available soon].
How Institutions and Bargaining Power shaped Indigenous Economies and Agriculture. (with Kulsoom Hisam and Aaron Lorenz). [Preliminary Draft]
Clean Cookstove Initiatives in Developing Countries and Vegetation Cover. (with Colette Salemi and Sebastian Anti)
Data Collection Stage:
This paper studies the impact of a large-scale clean cookstove intervention on deforestation and vegetation cover in Rwanda. We combine data from (a) bespoke maps on vegetation cover, disaggregated by different ecological zones, created for this project; and (b) village-level data on the universe of all cokstoves distributed in Rwanda. Given the implementation of the distribution program was in stages, we employ the staggered differences-in-differences approach for identification and estimation of the causal impact.
Characteristics of the Clean Cookstove Sector in the Developing Countries. (with Colette Salemi, Dennis Saerbeck, Ellie Chen and Samuel Shipley)
Draft Writing Stage:
This paper builds a novel dataset on the universe of all initiatives that distribute improved cookstoves in developing countries. This project-country level information includes details on any carbon credits claimed for financing these projects, the estimation methodology used for claimed carbon credits, the details of the distribution process, and the number of households reached.
Schools as a Colonial Institution and Indigenous Well-Being. [Slides from Preliminary Analysis]
Data Collection/Preliminary Analysis Stage
Political Legacies of Forced Displacement: Evidence from the 1947 Partition of British India. (with Rohit Joseph)
Data Collection Stage
Does a Communist Insurgency Affect Long Run Land Ownership in the Agricultural Sector. (with Eduardo Nakasone)
Preliminary Analysis Stage:
Using a Regression Discontinuity, this paper looks at the long term impact of Peruvian Civil War, led by Shining Path, on agricultural land holding size in Peru. We use Data from the Peruvian Agricultural Census and combine it with data on violence from Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We identify adjacent districts across departments such that the Shining Path was present in only one of the two districts and use a spatial RD for identification estimation.