Research

Work in Progress

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

  • NBER working paper link

  • Coverage  VoxDev 

• Tax accelerations (with Anders Jensen)

• The Global Tax Policy and Revenue Evaluation Database (TAPRED). An AI-Powered Approach (2026) (with Jean-Marc Atsebi)

• Mental Models of Fiscal Policy (with Francesco Bianchi, Era Dabla-Norris, Victoria Haver, and Salma Khalid)

• Public Sentiment and Energy Subsidy Reforms. Reading the Room: What Three Decades of News Reveal About Reform Acceptance (with Al Masri, Diala, Hussein Bidawi, Era Dabla-Norris, Davide Furceri, Ana Sofia Pessoa, and Alexandre Sollaci)

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

 Selected Policy Research (pre-PhD)

• 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)