RESEARCH
RESEARCH
WORKING PAPERS:
"Agentic inequality" (R&R at Nature Machine Intelligence)
Updated ArXiv version; Oxford Martin School AIGI Working Paper version (old)
with Omer Bilgin (Oxford), Iason Gabriel (DeepMind) and Lewis Hammond (Cooperative AI Foundation and Oxford)
"Unlocking AI usage data for labour market research: Design choices and tradeoffs"
Abstract; with Ole Teutloff (Oxford), Rishi Bommasani (Stanford Digital Economy Lab), Bharat Chandar (Stanford Digital Economy Lab), Mateo Petel (Stanford) and Sam Manning (Centre for the Governance of AI)
"Minimum wages and economic shocks: Evidence from South Africa" (2023) IZA Working Paper
with Joshua Merfeld (KDI School & IZA)
"Agglomeration economies in a developing country: Evidence from geo-coded micro-panel data in South Africa" (2020) Draft
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS:
"Revisiting the measurement of digital inclusion" (2023) World Bank Research Observer
Oxford Blavatnik School Working Paper version (extended version)
"The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid" (2021) Regional Science and Urban Economics
Accepted version (ungated); Oxford CSAE Working Paper 2021:01
POLICY PUBLICATIONS:
"Financing the AI triad: A framework for building capacity globally" (2026), Oxford Martin School AIGI Working Paper
with Sumaya Nur Adan (Oxford), Luise Eder (Oxford), Daniela Muhaj (Georgetown), Robert Trager (Oxford) & Lucia Velasco (UN)
Decoding Cross-Border Payment Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa: A High-Frequency Analysis of Granular Platform Data (2025) G20 Conference Paper
with Pedro Arnt (dLocal), Pardon Mujakachi (dLocal) and Samantha Torrance (Access Partnership)
PRE-PHD RESEARCH:
"Analysing African LIC Labour Markets with a New Segmentation Model" (2017) DFID/IZA GLM/LIC Working Paper
with Haroon Bhorat (UCT), Morne Oosthuizen (UCT) and Kezia Lilenstein (UCT)
"Day labour and Xenophobia in South Africa: The need for mixed methods approaches in policy-oriented research" (2013) Urban Forum