Policy writing
Nikolova, E. (2023). Property and land ownership and women’s entrepreneurship in the Arab region, prepared for UN ESCWA, https://www.unescwa.org/publications/women-entrepreneurship-arab-region-impacts-land-property-ownership
Nikolova, E. (2023). Gender profiles for Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar, prepared for African Development Bank/UN Women, https://africa.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2024-01/mainland_gender_profile_final.pdf and https://africa.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2024/01/zanzibar-gender-equality-profile
Nikolova. E. (2021). Increasing women’s employment and entrepreneurship in the gas and ancillary infrastructure services in Kosovo: A review of the literature and best practices. Report prepared for A2F Consulting/Millennium Foundation Kosovo.
Nikolova. E. (2020). Background paper on gender inequalities in Mauritius for the 2020 Mauritius Country Diagnostic. Report prepared for the World Bank (Gender Director).
Nikolova. E. (2020). Gender gaps in employment in infrastructure in AIIB countries (using ILO data). Report prepared for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Nikolova, E. (2020). Gender gaps in digital infrastructure in AIIB countries: Sub-national estimates using the Gallup World Poll. Report prepared for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Nikolova, E. (2020). Gender gaps in infrastructure in AIIB countries: Sub-national estimates using the Gallup World Poll. Report prepared for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Nikolova, E. (2019). Gender gaps in access to infrastructure and water in AIIB countries: A first look at the cross-country data and how other organizations calculate gender gaps. Report prepared for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Nikolova, E. (2018). Economic growth, childcare and female employment in Mongolia. Report prepared for UNDP – Bangkok regional hub.
The Mauritian miracle (2018), UCL Research blog
Chapter 4 of EBRD's 2011 Transition Report, “Crisis in transition:the people's perspective”
Chapter 3 of EBRD's 2013 Transition Report, “Stuck in transition?”
Popular writing and media
Educating children with disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa: drawing lessons for Mauritius, Charles Telfair Center – Mauritius, September 2023
The war for Ukraine's lives and minds, Globe Post, March 2022
Panel on Gender and Infrastructure in the Post-COVID World, AIIB Annual Meeting, October 2021. Youtube link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FKwE6Ah98M
COVID-19, Infrastructure and Women, AIIB blog: https://www.aiib.org/en/news-events/media-center/blog/2020/COVID-19-Infrastructure-and-Women.html
What Explains Political Institutions? Evidence from Colonial British America, Vox (CEPR's Policy Portal), 17 August 2012.
Do Windfalls of Public Funds Encourage Corruption? Evidence from a Natural Disaster, FT.com and Monkey Cage, April 2015.
How Natural Disasters Lead to Corruption, Standart newspaper (in Bulgarian), 15 April 2015.
What Do East and West Ukrainians Want? Novoe Vremya (Ukrainian Magazine); (in Russian), 28 April 2015.
Differences Between East and West Ukrainians'' Novoe Vremya (Ukrainian Magazine); (in Russian), 19 May 2015
Explaining Eastern Europe's Happiness Gap, FT.com, 5 October 2015.
Destined for Democracy? Labor markets and political change in colonial British America, Policy Space, University of Canberra, 22 October 2015.
Democracy Weakens when Workers Have Less Power, Monkey Cage (Washington Post), 23 January 2017.
Communism, religion, and unhappiness, Vox (CEPR's Policy Portal), 26 April 2018.
Will Yet Another Anti-Corruption Protest Trigger Change in Romania?, Globe Post, 20 August 2018
After the Greek financial crisis, Greeks are more mistrustful of others — especially non-Greeks, Monkey Cage (Washington Post), 24 October 2018.