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Assistant Professor of Economics, IIESI am a political 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
Measuring the Efficacy and Efficiency of School Facility Expenditures
with Julien Lafortune
Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850
with Eric Weese
The Origin of the Incentive Compatible State: Environmental Circumscription
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
Valuing Local Public Goods using Municipal Annexations
with Calvin Zhang
Lincoln Institute C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship
The Impact of Monitoring Technologies on Contracts and Employee Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Kenya’s Transit Industry
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
with Julien Lafortune
Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850
with Eric Weese
The Origin of the Incentive Compatible State: Environmental Circumscription
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship
Valuing Local Public Goods using Municipal Annexations
with Calvin Zhang
Lincoln Institute C. Lowell Harriss Fellowship
The Impact of Monitoring Technologies on Contracts and Employee Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Kenya’s Transit Industry
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
Selected Research in Progress
Local Government Boundary Discontinuities Across U.S. Metropolitan Areas
with Tomas Monarrez
The Origins of Sociopolitical Complexity
with Ernesto Dal Bó and Kirsten Vacca
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, Social Science Matrix Prospecting Team Award
Teacher Rotation and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
with Isabelle Cohen, Fred Finan, Ernesto Dal Bó and Kizito Omala
EASST Research Grant Competition Grant, IGC 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
with Tomas Monarrez
The Origins of Sociopolitical Complexity
with Ernesto Dal Bó and Kirsten Vacca
Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship, Social Science Matrix Prospecting Team Award
Teacher Rotation and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
with Isabelle Cohen, Fred Finan, Ernesto Dal Bó and Kizito Omala
EASST Research Grant Competition Grant, IGC 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
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."