Research

Research interests

Public Finance, Development Economics, Environment

Work in Progress

• Does Distance Matter: Building State Capacity by Reducing Remoteness

• Role of Public Policies in Mitigating Environmental Damages (with Sam Asher, Paul Novosad and Teevrat Garg)

• Tax Productivity and Development: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Analysis (with Anders Jensen, David Lagakos and Abdoulaye Ndiaye) 

• Accountability, State Capacity, and Public Goods (with Samuel Bazzi, Filipe Campante, Quoc-Anh Do, Matthew Gudgeon, and Karthik Muralidharan)

 Selected Publications

• The Road to Recovery: The Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer, vol. 4(1), pages 171-193, April. (with Erman et al) 

• State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2018, World Bank; Ecofys, Washington, DC: World Bank.

• Agricultural Transformation in Tanzania: Linking Rural to Urban through Domestic Value Chains, in  Tanzania: The Path to Prosperity, ed. Christopher S. Adam, Paul Collier, and Benno Ndulu (Oxford University Press, 2017). (with Douglas Gollin)

• Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices, Washington, DC: World Bank.

• Social protection for all ages? Impacts of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on child nutrition, Social Science Medicine. 2016 Jun. (with Catherine Porter) 

• Understanding Africa’s priorities for COP 21 at Paris, Africa in Focus, Brookings Institution, 2015

• Foresight Africa 2016: Divergence between international and local African media coverage, Africa in Focus, Brookings Institution, 2016