Research

Publications

1. “Herder-Related Violence, Labor Allocation, and the Gendered Response of Agricultural Households” (with Jeffrey Bloem, Amy Damon, and David Francis) Journal of Development Economics 176, 2025
2. “Migration and Resilience during a Global Crisis” (with many co-authors) European Economic Review 158, 104524, 2023

Working Papers

1. “Delegation Risk and Implementation at Scale: Evidence from a Migration Loan Program in Bangladesh” (with Mushfiq Mobarak, Karim Naguib, Maira Emy Reimao, and Ashish Shenoy) Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
2. “The Global Value of Cities” (with Aakash Bhalothia, Gavin Engelstad, and Gaurav Khanna)

Work in Progress

1. “The Curse of Connectivity: Evidence from Indonesia’s Village Resettlement Program”
2. “Build it and They Will Modernize: Structural Change and Village Creation” (STEG PhD Research Grant)
3. “Land Inequality and Rural Structural Transformation: Evidence from India” (with Frances Lu and Manaswini Rao)
4. “Transportation Networks and Inter-Group Contact” (with Thomas Gautier, Gedeon Lim, and Alex Rothenberg)