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I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. I am affiliated with NBER, BREAD, CEPR, and J-PAL. I also serve on the board of the Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) and as an Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at Boston University's GDP Center. 

My research lies at the intersection of political economy and development economics. I study how political, cultural, and institutional factors shape the process of economic development. The first strand of my research studies elections and democracy in developing countries and globally. The second strand explores the political economy of religion. The third strand explores questions related to state-building and nation-building in historical perspective. You can download here my CV  and find my Google Scholar profile here.