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