Working papers
State Repression, Exit, and Voice: Living in The Shadow of Cambodia's Killing Fields
With Mathias Bühler
Revision requested by the Review of Economic Studies
Children of the Pill: The Effect of Subsidizing Oral Contraceptives on Children’s Health and Wellbeing
With Jenny Jans and Emilia Simeonova
Featured in Dagens Medicin, Dagens Nyheter, and Jordemodern
Gender Empowerment in 19th Century Sweden: Using Historical Trade Shocks to Assess the Effects of Women’s Economic Empowerment
With Emilia Simeonova
Shaping the Nation: The Effect of Fourth of July on Political Preferences and Behavior in the US
With David Yanagizawa-Drott
Featured in ABS News, CBS News, Fox News 1, 2, and 3, MSNBC News, Daily Mail, Harvard Gazette, Huffington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Times.com, Toronto Sun, US News, and the Washington Times
The Social Costs of a Credit Monopoly
Published papers
Repayment Flexibility and Risk Taking: Experimental Evidence from Credit Contracts
With Marianna Battaglia and Selim Gulesci, Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
Featured in the World Bank Development Impact Blog 1 and 2, VoxDev, and VoxEU
Loan Contract Structure and Adverse Selection: Survey Evidence from Uganda
With Christian Ahlin, Selim Gulesci, and Miri Stryjan, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020
Sex and credit: Do gender interactions matter for credit market outcomes?
With Thorsten Beck and Patrick Behr, Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018
Featured in Financial Times Adviser, the World Bank All About Finance Blog, and VoxEU
Medical Abortion Provided by Nurse-Midwives or Physicians in a High Resource Setting
With Susanne Sjöström, Helena Kopp Kallner, Emilia Simeonova, and Kristina Gemzell-Danielsson, PLoS ONE, 2016
Informal Finance: A Theory of Moneylenders
Journal of Development Economics, 2014
Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement
With Daniel Shoag, Stan Veuger, and David Yanagizawa-Drott, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013
Featured in Bloomberg 1 and 2, Dagens Nyheter, the Economist 1 and 2, the Guardian 1 and 2, Marginal Revolution, and Washington Post 1 and 2
In progress
60 years of global environmental change 1939-1999: digitization of 1.6 million historical aerial photographs
With Hannah Druckenmiller, Solomon Hsiang, and Anna Tompsett
Featured in E&E News and Telegraph Magazine
A new approach to measuring the wealth of nations: understanding long-run economic growth using historical aerial photographs
With Hannah Druckenmiller, Solomon Hsiang, and Anna Tompsett
Closing the gender gap in agriculture
With Selim Gulesci, Elijah Kipchumba, Alexander Näsström, Munshi Sulaiman, and Esau Tugume
Economic success through salvation? Experimental evidence from the evangelical movement
With Francesco Loiacono and Jakob Svensson
Inside the production function: the effect of financial contracts on growing firms' technology use
With Selim Gulesci, Francesco Loiacono, and Miri Stryjan
Racial bias and peer effects at the police academy
With Jenny Madestam and Alexander Näsström
Who benefits from free education? Evidence from a policy experiment in Cambodia
With Mathias Bühler, Maria Cheung, and Jakob Svensson