Crombach, L. (2025). Electoral corruption cycles: Separating perceptions and experiences across households and experts. European Journal of Political Economy, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102675
Crombach, L. & Smits, J. (2024). The Subnational Corruption Database: Grand and petty corruption in 1,473 regions of 178 countries, 1995-2022. Scientific Data (Nature), 11, 686. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03505-8
Crombach, L., Bohn, F., & Sturm, J-E. (2024). The "Benefits" of Being Small: Loose Fiscal Policy in the European Monetary Union. Journal of Public Economics, 234, 105120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105120
Crombach, L., & Smits, J. (2024). Understanding the urban-rural fertility divide in sub-Saharan Africa: The critical role of social isolation. Population, Space and Place, e2801. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2801
Crombach, L., & Bohn, F. (2024). Uninformed voters with (im)precise expectations: Explaining political budget cycle puzzles. Economics & Politics, 36(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12237.
Crombach, L., & Smits, J. (2022). The demographic window of opportunity and economic growth at sub-national level in 91 developing countries. Social Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-021-02802-8.
Crombach, L., J. Smits and C. Monden (2021), "Life expectancy and length of life inequality in the long run", in How Was Life? Volume II: New Perspectives on Well-being and Global Inequality since 1820, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/aa9ad684-en.
Schuurmans, J., Bouwmeester, R., Crombach, L., van Rijssel, T., Wingens, L., Georgieva, K., ... & Engels, Y. (2019). Euthanasia requests in dementia cases; what are experiences and needs of Dutch physicians? A qualitative interview study. BMC Medical Ethics, 20(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-019-0401-y.
Work in Progress
Crombach, L. Beyond the Negative: Exploring the Impacts of Local Petty Corruption on Subnational Growth.
Smits, J., Huisman, J., Crombach, L. The Journal Popularity Index.