Book
Rural Democracy: Elections and Development in Africa, Oxford University Press ​(2020)

​Articles and chapters (peer-reviewed)
Buying a Blind Eye: Campaign Donations, Regulatory Enforcement, and Deforestation (with Mounu Prem, Nelson A. Ruiz and David Vargas), American Political Science Review, 118:2 (2024).

Terrorism, Trust, and Identity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria (with Arinze Nwokolo), American Journal of Political Science, (2023).

Rallying in fear? Estimating the effect of the UK COVID-19 lockdown with a natural experiment (with Andrew C. Eggers), European Journal of Political Research, 61 (2022).

​Candidate Coethnicity, Rural/Urban Divides, and Partisanship in Africa (with Kristin Michelitch), Party Politics, 24:7 (2021).

Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Northern Somalia (with Avidit Acharya and Andy Harris), Journal of Theoretical Politics, 32:4 (2020).

Who is Democracy Good For? Elections, Rural Bias, and Health and Education Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa, Journal of Politics, 82:1 (2020).

The Democratic Dividend: Public Spending and Education under Multipartyism. In Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics. Oxford University Press (2019).

Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana, World Politics, 67:4 (2015).

What Democracy Does (and Doesn't) do for Basic Services: School Fees, School Quality, and African Elections (with David Stasavage), Journal of Politics, 76:1 (2014).

Public Investment in Rural Infrastructure: Some Political Economy Considerations (with Moussa Blimpo and Leonard Wantchekon), Journal of African Economies, 22 (2013).

Freedom to Choose and Democracy: The Empirical Question, Economics and Philosophy, 27:3 (2011).


Other research and working papers
Coups and Social Trust: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Burkina Faso  (with Thomas Brailey and Thomas Isbell), Afrobarometer Working Paper Series, WP204, July 2024.

Food Security and Public Investment in Rural Infrastructure: Some Political Economy Considerations (with Leonard Wantchekon), UNDP Research Paper, January 2012.

The Political Economy of Human Development. (with LeonardWantchekon), UNDP Research Paper, October 2010.

Urban-Rural Differences in Incumbent Support Across Africa. Afrobarometer Working Paper Series, WP120, June 2010.
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