research
working papers:
Social Influence and Political Behavior in Mozambique, joint with Matilde Grácio
Preventing Violent Islamic
Radicalization: Experimental Evidence on Anti-social Behavior, joint
with Inês Vilela
Keep It Simple: A Field Experiment on Information Sharing in
Social Networks, joint with Cátia Batista and Marcel Fafchamps
Is Mobile Money Changing Rural
Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment, joint with Cátia Batista
Mobilizing Parents at Home and at
School: An Experiment on Primary Education in Angola, joint
with Vincenzo Di Maro, Stefan Leeffers, and Danila Serra
Incentivizing Community Health Workers in
Guinea-Bissau: Experimental Evidence on Social Status and Intrinsic Motivation, joint
with Mattia Fracchia and Teresa Molina
Measuring Corruption in the Field Using Behavioral Games, joint with Alex Armand,
Alex 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:
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse?
Experimental Evidence from Mozambique, joint with Alex Armand, Alex Coutts, and
Inês Vilela
American
Economic Review, conditionally accepted
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 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, forthcoming, 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
main conferences organized:
Various
NOVAFRICA Conferences and Workshops at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2012 to
present)