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Working Papers

Witchcraft Beliefs and Subjective Well-Being
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Structural Change, Elite Capitalism, and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
(with Quamrul Ashraf, Francesco Cinnirella, Oded Galor, and Erik Hornung)
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Research in Progress

Species Diversity and the Adoption of Agriculture
(with Katsuki Morihara)

Local Diversity and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
(with Ameesh Upadhyay)

Ethnicity, Religion, and Conflict: Evidence from African Regions
(with Diego Rivera)

Journal publications

Headhunting and Warfare in Austronesia: A Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis (with Tinatin Mumladze)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, April 2024, 220, pp. 768–791.
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Witchcraft Beliefs Around the World: An Exploratory Analysis
PLoS ONE, November 2022, 17(11), e0276872.
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Witchcraft Beliefs as a Cultural Legacy of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Two Continents
European Economic Review, February 2020, 122, 103362.
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Measuring Regional Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Surveys vs. GIS (with Diego Rivera)
World Bank Economic Review, February 2020, 34(S1), pp. S40–S45.
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Subnational Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a New Dataset (with Diego Rivera)
Journal of Development Economics, July 2018, 133, pp. 231–263.
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Banks, Market Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Analysis
(with Quamrul Ashraf and Peter Howitt)
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, March 2017, 135, pp. 143–180.
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Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Social Capital: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond
Journal of Development Economics, May 2016, 120, pp. 182–208.
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How Inflation Affects Macroeconomic Performance: An Agent-Based Computational Investigation
(with Quamrul Ashraf and Peter Howitt)
Macroeconomic Dynamics, March 2016, 20(2), pp. 558–581.
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The Economic Origins of the Evil Eye Belief
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, February 2015, 110, pp. 119–144.
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The Two Sides of Envy
Journal of Economic Growth, December 2014, 19(4), pp. 407–438.
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Envy in the Process of Development: Implications for Social Relations and Conflict
Economics of Peace and Security Journal, October 2013, 8(2), pp. 13–19.
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Macroeconomics in a Self-Organizing Economy (with Quamrul Ashraf and Peter Howitt)
Revue de l'OFCE / Debates and policies, October 2012, 124, pp. 43–65.
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Book chapters

Witchcraft Beliefs, Social Relations, and Development
In Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann.
Cham: Springer, 2022.
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Long-Run Development and the New Cultural Economics
In Demographic Change and Long-Run Development. Edited by Matteo Cervelatti and Uwe Sunde.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017, Chapter 9, pp. 221–261.
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Book reviews

Witch Hunts: Culture, Patriarchy, and Structural Transformation (by Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan)
Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (8), pp. 1313–1314..
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