Mining for peace (with Paul Schaudt and Alberto Vesperoni). Conditionally accepted at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm (with Germain Gauthier, Philine Widmer and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya). R&R at Nature.
Political border designs and the salience of ethnicity in politics (with Richard Bluhm and Paul Schaudt).
Regional majorities and comparative development (with Richard Bluhm and Paul Schaudt).
Web search personalization during the 2020 US election (with Ulrich Matter), American Economic Review: Insights, forthcoming.
Ethnic clustering in schools and early career outcomes (with Caroline Chuard, Annatina Aerne and Beatrix Eugster), Economics of Education Review, 2025.
Key players in economic development (with Ashani Amarasinghe, Paul Raschky and Yves Zenou), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024.
Ethnic geography: Measurement and evidence (with Michele Valsecchi and Alberto Vesperoni), Journal of Public Economics, 2021.
Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa (with Sorawoot Srisuma, Alberto Vesperoni and Noémie Zurlinden), Journal of Development Economics, 2020.
Expropriations, property confiscations and new offshore entities: Evidence from the Panama Papers (with Ralph Bayer, Paul Raschky and Anthony Strittmatter), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020.
African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance (with Axel Dreher, Andreas Fuchs, Bradley Parks, Paul Raschky and Michael Tierney), Journal of Development Economics, 2019.
Effect of oil spills on infant mortality in Nigeria (with Anna Bruederle), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019.
Ethnic favoritism: An axiom of politics? (with Giacomo De Luca, Paul Raschky and Michele Valsecchi), Journal of Development Economics, 2018.
The effects of voting costs on the democratic process and public finances (with Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015.
Regional favoritism (with Paul Raschky), Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014.
Development (paradigm) failures (with Axel Dreher), Journal of Development Economics, 2013.
All-pay war (with Hadi Yektas), Games and Economic Behavior, 2012.
Inefficient policies and incumbency advantage (with Simon Loertscher and Dominic Rohner), Journal of Public Economics, 2010.
Natural resources, democracy and corruption (with Sambit Bhattacharyya), European Economic Review, 2010.
Industrial policy in an imperfect world, Journal of Development Economics, 2009.
The curse of natural resources in fractionalized countries, European Economic Review, 2006.