" The Legacy of Colonial Education: Evidence from Tunisia" (with Cédric Chambru and Mhamed Ben Salah), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024.
media coverage: VoxEU
"Mentoring as a pathway to labor market integration: evidence from a Belgian program" (Antonio Estache and Lisa Bagnoli) Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mentoring, 2022.
"Betting on Lord: Lottery games in Haiti ”(with Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Josepa Miquel-Florensa and Paul Seabright), the World Development, 2021.
media coverage: Vox.eu
"Trust in the Image of God: Links between religiosity and reciprocity in Haiti” (with Emmanuelle Auriol, Diego Delissaint, Josepa Miquel-Florensa and Paul Seabright) , Economics of Transition and Institutional Change , 2021.
"Render Unto Caesar: Taxes, Charity and Political Islam" (with Gabriele Gratton and Pauline Grosjean), European Economic Review, 2019.
media coverage: Vox.eu, Business Think
"Infrastructure provision, politics, and religion: Insights from Tunisia’s new democracy" (with Antonio Estache), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2019.
"Who Suppresses Female Sexuality? An Examination of Support for Islamic Veiling in a Secular Muslim Democracy as a Function of Sex and Offspring Sex" (Khandis Blake and Robert Brooke), Evolution and Human Behavior, 2018.
"Envy and the Islamic Revival: experimental and survey evidence from Tunisia", Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018.
"Determinants of the Islamic revival and its political implications" (Thesis Abstract) Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales , 2017.
"The artisanal gold mining boom increases the risk of conflict-time sexual violence (with Victoire Girard and Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti)
version supersedes: Sexual violence as a weapon of war and Natural resources and the economics of violence against civilians
media coverage: Vox.eu
"Are Muslim immigrants really different? Experimental Evidence from Lebanon and Australia" (with Danielle Hayek)
"Conflict Exposure in a Multi-Sectarian Society: Evidence from Lebanon" (with Danielle Hayek)
"Encouraging Organ Donation: Evidence from a Randomized Informational Intervention Among Young Adults in Tunisia" (with Christina Sarah Hauser) AEA RCT Registry on 16 April 2024. Conditionally accepted via pre-results review at the Journal of Development Economics.
media coverage: Project Syndicate, Kapitalis
Politics, Religion, and the Evolution of the Welfare State (with Gabriele Gratton and Federico Masera). The Economics of Religion, edited by Robert M. Sauer (2023)