Religion, Education, and the State, with Samuel Bazzi and Masyhur Hilmy. Review of Economic Studies, August 2025.
Electoral Turnovers, with Vincent Pons and Vincent Rollet. Review of Economic Studies, November 2024.
The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution, with Cédric Chambru and Emeric Henry, American Economic Review, November 2024.
J'Accuse! Antisemitism and Financial Markets in the Time of the Dreyfus Affair, with Quoc-Anh Do, Roberto Galbiati, and Miguel Ortiz Serrano, Journal of Financial Economics, April 2024.
Voter Mobilisation and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya, with Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri, Economic Journal, August 2021.
Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization, with Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri, Journal of Public Economics, May 2021.
The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia, with Samuel Bazzi and Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2020.
Online appendix [here] and replication data [here]. Working papers: [nber] [hal] [ssrn]
Media coverage: [broadstreet] [france culture] [mint]
There Is No Free House: Ethnic Patronage in a Kenyan Slum, with Thomas Stoker and Tavneet Suri, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, October 2019.
A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice: Evidence From Senegal, with Jessica Gottlieb, Guy Grossman, and Horacio Larreguy, Journal of Politics, April 2019.
Replication data [here]
The Economics of Slums in the Developing World (2013), with Thomas Stoker and Tavneet Suri, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2013.
Media coverage: [The Economist] [Atlantic Cities]
Religion in Emerging and Developing Regions , with Sara Lowes and Eduardo Montero, under preparation for the Annual Review of Economics.
It Takes a Village Election: Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies, with Samuel Bazzi, Masyhur Hilmy, Mahvish Shaukat, and Andreas Stegmann.
Working papers: [nber] [cepr] [world bank]
Eat Widely, Vote Wisely: Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda, with Chris Blattman, Horacio Larreguy, and Otis Reid.
Working papers: [nber] [cepr]. Evaluation on the J-PAL website.
Turnover and Accountability in Africa's Parliaments, with Jeremy Bowles. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.
Elections as Incentives: Project Completion and Visibility in African Politics.
Incumbency Advantage at the Country Level, with Raphaël Descamps, Vincent Pons and Vincent Rollet.
Religion in the Digital Age, with Layane Alhorr, Samuel Bazzi, and Faiz Essa.
Colonial Surveillance of Islam in French West Africa, with Jeremy Bowles and Gabriel Koehler-Derrick.
Changing Norms of Corruption Among Future Public Servants, with Samuel Bazzi, Masyhur Hilmy, Mahvish Shaukat, and Andreas Stegmann.
Red Ball Express: Types of Contact and the Transmission of Prejudice, with Claudius Willem.
The Frontier Roots of Religious America, with Samuel Bazzi and Martin Fiszbein.