David Schönholzer
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Assistant Professor of Economics, IIES

I 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.
  • 2019-: Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies, Assistant Professor
  • 2018/19: Yale University, Cowles Foundation Postdoc
  • 2018: UC Berkeley, Ph.D. in Economics
    • Dissertation: "Essays on State Capacity and Local Public Goods"
    • Public Policy Research Award, National Tax Association Dissertation Award 
My CV is here, email: david.schonholzer@iies.su.se

Working Papers

The Impact of School Facility Investments on Students and Homeowners: Evidence from Los Angeles
with Julien Lafortune
Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics


The Origin of the Incentive Compatible State: Environmental Circumscription
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship​ 
Reject and resubmit at the Review of Economic Studies

Ethnic Violence Across Space
with Hannes Mueller and Dominic Rohner
Revise and resubmit at the Economic Journal


School Capital Expenditure Rules and Distribution
with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune
Forthcoming at American Economic Association: Papers & Proceedings


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​​​

​Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850​
with Eric Weese
Data from Centennia Research Edition

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​Valuing Local Public Goods using Municipal Annexations​
with Calvin Zhang
Lincoln Institute C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship

Selected Research in Progress

​Local Government Boundary Discontinuities Across 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
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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

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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."
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