research

 

working papers:

 

Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment, joint with Cátia Batista

 

Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, joint with Marcel Fafchamps and Ana Vaz

 

By The People? Foreign Aid and Donor-Country Democracy, joint with Daniel Kaufmann and Eoin McGuirk

 

Return Migration and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique, joint with Cátia Batista and Tara McIndoe-Calder

 

A Model of Vote-buying with an Incumbency Advantage

 

Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique, joint with Jenny Aker and Paul Collier

See mention at The Guardian

See mention at TIME magazine

 

Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria, joint with Paul Collier

See column at voxeu.org

See mention at the Wall Street Journal

 

Corrupted Scholarships

 

main peer-reviewed publications:

 

Is Vote-buying Effective? Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa

Economic Journal, accepted for publication

See mention by the Wall Street Journal

 

Political Violence and Social Networks: Experimental Evidence from a Nigerian Election, joint with Marcel Fafchamps

Journal of Development Economics, accepted for publication

 

Violence, Bribery, and Fraud: The Political Economy of Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa, joint with Paul Collier

Public Choice, 2012, 153(1-2). pp. 117-147

 

Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde, joint with Cátia Batista and Aitor Lacuesta

Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97(1), pp. 32-45

See mention by The Economist

 

Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment, joint with Cátia Batista

World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25(1), pp. 77-104

 

Legal Corruption, joint with Daniel Kaufmann

Economics and Politics, 2011, 23(2), pp. 195-219

 

Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa

Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(1), pp. 28-38

 

Clientelism and Vote Buying: Lessons from Field Experiments in African Elections, joint with Leonard Wantchekon

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 25(2), pp. 292-305

 

other publications:

 

Oil, Corruption, and Vote-buying: A Review of the Case of Sao Tome and Principe, in S. Rose-Ackerman and T. Soreide, forthcoming, International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, Volume II, Edward Elgar Publishing

 

A Theory of Corruption, Political Exclusion, and Windfalls, in M. Gradstein and K. Konrad (2007), Institutions and Norms in Economic Development, MIT Press

 

work in progress:

 

An Impact Evaluation of Mobile Banking in Rural Areas of Mozambique, joint with Cátia Batista

 

Savings and Mobile Banking in Mozambique, joint with Cátia Batista, Luke Crowley, and Dean Yang

 

Financial Literacy and Mobile Banking in Mozambican Urban Markets, joint with Cátia Batista and Sandra Sequeira

 

An Impact Evaluation of the Fundo de Apoio Social in Angola

 

An Impact Evaluation of International and National Electoral Observation in Mozambique, joint with Paul Collier

 

Migration, Institutions and Social Networks in Mozambique, joint with Cátia Batista

 

main conferences organized:

 

1st NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development in Africa at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, September 7-8, 2012

 

3rd Meeting of EGAP (Experiments in Governance and Politics) at Trinity College, May 7-8, 2010 - see EGAP's website