Working papers

• Leadership and Nation-Building - Reject and Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics

• The Arab Slave Trade and the Diffusion of Islam in Africa,  with Giulia Buccione 

• Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019, with Amory Gethin, Thomas Piketty, and Juliet-Nil Uraz. 2021. ffhalshs-03215898f

Work in progress

• Misperceptions  of Economic Inequality and Sectarian Politics: Experimental Evidence from Lebanon, with Augustin Bergeron, Giulia Buccione, and Salma Mousa   [funded by: AFD, ASREC, J-PAL GI]  - data collection completed, analysis ongoing 

• Business Networking and Social Cohesion: Evidence from Turkey, with Onur Altindag , Ceren Baysan, Carlos Molina, and Miray Omurtak [funded by: IPA, J-PAL DLI, SSCHRC] - in the field   

• The Gendered Impact of Climate Change: Evidence from Jordan, with Giulia Buccione and Emma Smith  [funded by: LEAP, LSE Hub for Equal Representation, IGC, JPAL-LAI] - in the field    

Publications

• "Rethinking the Lebanese Economic Miracle: The Extreme Concentration of Income and Wealth in Lebanon, 2005-2014", Journal of Development Economics , 2023,  Vol. 61, 103003 [WP version]  

• "Measuring Inequality in the Middle East, 1990-2016: The World's Most Unequal Region?", with Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty, Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, vol. 65, p.685-711  [WP version]

• "Extreme Inequality: Evidence from Brazil, India, the Middle-East and South Africa", with Lucas Chancel and Marc Morgan, American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, 2018, vol. 108, p. 119-123 [WP version]

Book Chapters

• "Charismatic Leaders and Nation-Building: The Case of Mustafa Kemal “Atatürk”", Prepared for Successful Nation-Building, CEPR/VOXEU E-book, edited by D. Rohner and E. Zhuravskaya.

• “Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities in Algeria, Iraq, and Turkey, 1990-2019” with Amory Gethin, Thomas Piketty, Juliet-Nil Uraz, in Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities. A Study of 50 Democracies, 1950-2020, edited by Amory Gethin, Clara Martinez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty, Harvard University Press, 2021 

• “Measuring lnequality in the Middle East” with Facundo Alvaredo and Thomas Piketty, in the Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy, edited by Hassan Hakimian, 2021

Policy Papers, Opinion Pieces and Briefs  

• La question des inégalités, grande absente des législatives libanaises ? L'Orient le jour, 2018

• Austerity Is Not the Answer, Carnegie Middle East Center, 2019

• Mass Protests Have Taken Place in Lebanon Against the Political Class and Its Economic Policies, Carnegie Middle East Center, 2019 

• L’économie rentière du Liban a engendré des niveaux d’inégalité extrêmes, Le Monde 

• The Ravages of Inequality, Carnegie Middle East Center, 2019 

• Inequality and Its Discontents in the Middle East, Carnegie Middle East Center, 2019 

• Lebanon’s Political Economy: From Predatory to Self-Devouring, Carnegie Middle East Center, 2019