My research investigates how economic structures mediate the impact of major macroeconomic shocks. Whether analyzing aggressive fiscal reforms in the U.S. or natural resource discoveries in Sub-Saharan Africa, I am driven by a central puzzle: Why do identical incentives or windfalls generate divergent outcomes across different economies? My work combines modern causal inference methods, specifically Synthetic Control and Difference-in-Differences, with structural characterization techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Vector Autoregression (VAR).