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Assistant Professor of Economics, IIESI am an economist studying the efficient provision of public goods, the role of governance, and the development of state capacity. My work speaks to issues in local public finance in the U.S., the economic history of the state, and the provision of public goods in a development context.
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Working Papers
The Origin of the Incentive Compatible State: Environmental Circumscription
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
Reject and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
Monitoring in Target Contracts: Theory and Experiment in Kenyan Public Transit
with Erin Kelley and Gregory Lane
PEDL Exploratory Research Grant, PEDL Major Research, DIL Innovate Grant
Media Coverage: NextBillion, Business Daily Africa
Latest AEA RCT Registry Revision: April 2017
Website: smartmatatu.com
Measuring Preferences for Local Public Goods
Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850
with Eric Weese
Data from Centennia Research Edition
Valuing Local Public Goods using Municipal Annexations
with Calvin Zhang
Lincoln Institute C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
Reject and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies
Monitoring in Target Contracts: Theory and Experiment in Kenyan Public Transit
with Erin Kelley and Gregory Lane
PEDL Exploratory Research Grant, PEDL Major Research, DIL Innovate Grant
Media Coverage: NextBillion, Business Daily Africa
Latest AEA RCT Registry Revision: April 2017
Website: smartmatatu.com
Measuring Preferences for Local Public Goods
Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850
with Eric Weese
Data from Centennia Research Edition
Valuing Local Public Goods using Municipal Annexations
with Calvin Zhang
Lincoln Institute C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship
Publications
The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles
with Julien Lafortune
Accepted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Ethnic Violence Across Space
with Hannes Mueller and Dominic Rohner
Forthcoming at the Economic Journal
School Capital Expenditure Rules and Distribution
with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune
American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, 2021, Vol. 111, p. 450-454
with Julien Lafortune
Accepted at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Ethnic Violence Across Space
with Hannes Mueller and Dominic Rohner
Forthcoming at the Economic Journal
School Capital Expenditure Rules and Distribution
with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune
American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings, 2021, Vol. 111, p. 450-454
Selected Research in Progress
Dividing Lines: Racial Segregation Across Local Government Boundaries in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
with Tomas Monarrez
School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization
with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune
Spencer Foundation Research Grant
The Value of Safe Driving: Evidence from Kenya’s Public Transport Sector
with Erin Kelley and Gregory Lane
Weiss Family Program Fund Grant, Development Economics Challenge Grant, T-TRIID Grant
Institutional Origins and Evolution Through the Lens of Historical State Lineages
with Mattias Hallberg
with Tomas Monarrez
School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization
with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune
Spencer Foundation Research Grant
The Value of Safe Driving: Evidence from Kenya’s Public Transport Sector
with Erin Kelley and Gregory Lane
Weiss Family Program Fund Grant, Development Economics Challenge Grant, T-TRIID Grant
Institutional Origins and Evolution Through the Lens of Historical State Lineages
with Mattias Hallberg
Image credit: part of the frontispiece of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes; engraving by Abraham Bosse. "The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry."