research
working papers:
Introducing Mobile Money in Rural
Mozambique: Evidence from a Field Experiment, joint with Cátia Batista
Improving Access to Savings
through Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in
Mozambique, joint with Cátia Batista and Dean Yang
Networks and Information:
Evidence on Political Participation in Mozambique,
joint with Macartan Humphreys
Vitamin
A Deficiency and Training to Farmers: Evidence from a Field Experiment in
Mozambique, joint with Rute Caeiro
Does Electoral Observation
Influence Electoral Results? Experimental Evidence for Domestic and
International Observers in Mozambique, joint with Stefanus
Leeffers
Migration, Political
Institutions, and Social Networks in Mozambique,
joint with Cátia Batista and Julia Seither
Voting and Peer Effects:
Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, joint with Marcel Fafchamps and Ana Vaz
Foreign Aid Preferences and
Perceptions in Donor Countries, joint with Daniel Kaufmann and Eoin McGuirk
A Model of Vote-buying with an
Incumbency Advantage
main peer-reviewed publications:
Return Migration, Self-selection,
and Entrepreneurship, joint with
Cátia Batista and Tara McIndoe-Calder
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, accepted for
publication
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, accepted for publication
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:
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
main conferences organized:
Various
NOVAFRICA Conferences and Workshops at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012 to
present)
3rd Meeting of EGAP
(Experiments in Governance and Politics) at Trinity College Dublin, May 7-8,
2010 - see EGAP's website