research
working papers:
Preventing Violent Islamic Radicalization: Experimental
Evidence on Anti-social Behavior, joint
with Inês Vilela
Mobilizing Parents at Home and at School: An African Experiment
on Primary Education, joint with Vincenzo Di Maro, Stefan Leeffers, and Danila Serra
See column at globaldev
Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field
Experiment, joint with Cátia Batista
Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital
City, joint with Mattia Fracchia and Teresa Molina-Millán
Can Technology Improve the Classroom Experience in Primary
Education? An African Experiment on a Worldwide Program, joint
with Joana Cardim and Teresa Molina-Millán
Closing the Gender Profit Gap, joint
with Cátia Batista and Sandra Sequeira
Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in
Social Networks, joint with Cátia Batista and Marcel Fafchamps
Measuring
Corruption in the Field Using Behavioral Games, joint
with Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, and Inês Vilela
Introducing Mobile Money in Rural Mozambique: Evidence from a
Field Experiment, joint with Cátia Batista
A
Model of Vote-buying with an Incumbency Advantage
main
publications:
Information, Get-out-the-vote Messages, and Peer Influence:
Causal Effects on Political Behavior in Mozambique, joint
with Matilde Grácio
Journal of Development Economics, 2021, 151, 102665
Can ATMs Get Out the Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Field
Experiment, joint with João Pereira dos Santos and José Tavares
European
Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103691
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse?
Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, joint with Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts,
and Inês Vilela
American
Economic Review, 2020, 110(11), pp. 3431-3453
See column at globaldev
Adopting Mobile Money: Evidence from an
Experiment in Rural Africa, joint with Cátia Batista
American
Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, pp. 594–598
Improving Access
to Savings through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder
Farmers, joint with Cátia Batista
World
Development, 2020, 129, 10490
Knowledge of Vitamin A Deficiency and Crop Adoption:
Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mozambique, joint with Rute Caeiro
Agricultural
Economics, 2020, 51(2), pp. 175-190
Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from
Mozambique, joint with
Marcel Fafchamps and Ana Vaz
Economic Development and Cultural
Change, 2020, 68(2),
pp. 567-605
See column at voxeu.org
Do Migrant Social Networks Shape Political Attitudes and
Behavior at Home?, joint with Cátia Batista and Julia Seither
World Development, 2019, 117, pp. 328-343
Foreign Aid Preferences and Perceptions in Donor Countries, joint with Daniel Kaufmann and
Eoin McGuirk
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2019, 47(3), pp. 601-617
Does Electoral
Observation Influence Electoral Results? Experimental Evidence for Domestic and
International Observers in Mozambique, joint with Stefan
Leeffers
World Development, 2019, 114, pp. 42-58
Return Migration, Self-selection, and Entrepreneurship, joint with Cátia Batista and Tara
McIndoe-Calder
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, 2017, 79(5),
pp. 797-821
Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers
during an Election in Mozambique, joint with Jenny Aker and Paul Collier
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(2), pp. 185-200
See mention at The
Guardian
See mention at TIME
magazine
Is Vote-buying Effective? Evidence from a Field Experiment in
West Africa
Economic Journal, 2014, 124(574), pp. 356-387
See mention by
the Wall
Street Journal
Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Nigeria, joint with
Paul Collier
Economic Journal, 2014, 124(574), pp. 327-355
See column at voxeu.org
See mention at
the Wall
Street Journal
Political Violence and Social Networks: Experimental
Evidence from a Nigerian Election, joint with Marcel Fafchamps
Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101, pp. 27-48
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:
International
Migration and Social Network Spillovers of Political
Norms, joint with
Cátia Batista and Julia Seither, in L. Brites Pereira, M. E. Mata, and M. Rocha
de Sousa, 2020, Economic Globalization
and Governance - Essays in Honor of Jorge Braga de
Macedo, Springer
International
Migration and the Transfer of Political Norms: Examples from Cape Verde and
Mozambique, joint with
Cátia Batista and Julia Seither, in L. Chauvet, F. Gubert, T. Jaulin, and S. Mesplé-Somps,
2018, Les Migrants, Acteurs
des Changements Politiques en
Afrique?, DeBoeck Supérieur
Oil,
Corruption, and Vote-buying: A Review of the Case of Sao Tome and Principe, in S. Rose-Ackerman and T. Soreide, 2011, International Handbook on the Economics
of Corruption, Volume II, Edward
Elgar Publishing
Empirical Considerations about Brain
Drain, joint with Catia Batista and Aitor Lacuesta, Moneda y Crédito,
2008, 226, pp. 33-71
A Theory of
Corruption, Political Exclusion, and Windfalls,
in M. Gradstein and K. Konrad (2007), Institutions and
Norms in Economic Development, MIT
Press
Review of C. Sampford, A. Shacklock, C.
Connors, and F. Galtung (Eds), Measuring Corruption, Global Crime, 8(1), February
2007, pp. 101-104