Recent Working Papers
Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US
with Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, Gianluca Rosso, Jan 2026
How Are Gender Norms Perceived?
with Leonardo Bursztyn, Alexander Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, Alessandra Voena, Dec 2025
Reject & Resubmit, American Economic Review
Automation using Generative AI? Evidence from a Teacher Hiring Pipeline
with Kobbina Awuah, Ursa Krenk, July 2025
Going Viral: Protests and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg
with Bruno Caprettini, Marcel Caesmann, Hans-Joachim Voth, May 2025
Conditionally Accepted, Journal of the European Economic Association
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with Hans-Joachim Voth, July 2024
Revise & Resubmit, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Publications
Opinions as Facts
with Leonardo Bursztyn, Aakaash Rao, Chris Roth
Review of Economic Studies, 90 (4), 2023 |
Publication here
Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? A Randomized Intervention of Antimalarial Medicine Market in Uganda
with Martina Björkman-Nyqvist, Jacob Svensson
Journal of the European Economic Association, 20 (3), 2022 |
Publication here [Editor’s Choice]
Misperceived Social Norms: Women Working Outside the Home in Saudi Arabia
with Leonardo Bursztyn, Alessandra González
American Economic Review, 110 (10), 2020 |
Publication here
Reducing Child Mortality in the Last Mile: Experimental Evidence on Community Health Promoters in Uganda
with Martina Björkman-Nyqvist, Andrea Guariso, Jakob Svensson
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11 (3), 2019 |
Publication here
Long-Range Growth: Economic Development in the Global Network of Air Links
with Filipe Campante
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133 (3), 2018 |
Publication here |
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Lemon Technologies and Adoption: Measurement, Theory and Evidence from Agricultural Markets in Uganda
with Tessa Bold, Kayuki Kaizzi, Jakob Svensson
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132 (3), 2017 |
Publication here
Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media: Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
with Nancy Qian
Journal of the European Economic Association, 15 (2), 2017 |
Publication here
Media Persuasion, Ethnic Hatred and Mass Violence: A Brief Overview of Recent Advances
with Maria Petrova
Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions, OUP 2016 |
Publication here
Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
with Filipe Campante
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 130 (2), 2015 |
Publication here |
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Propaganda and Conflict: Evidence from the Rwandan Genocide
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (4), 2014 |
Publication here |
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Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement
with Andreas Madestam, Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 128 (4), 2013 |
Publication here |
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Propaganda vs. Education: A Case Study of Hate Radio in Rwanda
Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies, OUP 2013 |
Publication here
Getting Prices Right: The Impact of the Market Information Service in Uganda
with Jakob Svensson
Journal of the European Economic Association, P&P, 7 (2-3), 2009 |
Publication here
The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War
with Nancy Qian
Journal of the European Economic Association, P&P, 7 (2-3), 2009 |
Publication here
Social Capital vs Institutions in the Growth Process
with Pelle Ahlerup, Ola Olsson
European Journal of Political Economy, 25 (1), 2009 |
Publication here
Unpublished Manuscripts & Work in Progress
Learning Across Genders
with K. Awuah, S. Helmke, R. Hernández, U. Krenk, S. Rabino, D. Santos Cardenás, in progress
The Diffusion of Female Empowerment: Evidence from Social Networks in India
with H-J. Voth, in progress
The Intergenerational Transmission of War
with F. Campante, April 2016 (Dormant)
Shaping the Nation: The Effect of Fourth of July on Political Preferences and Behavior in the United States
with A. Madestam, Nov 2011 (Dormant)