Publications

Reconstructing History: Words as Historical Artifacts (with Arthur Blouin)

Journal of Economic History, 2025 (Lead Article)

The Fruits (and Vegetables) of Crime: Protection from Theft and Agricultural Development

Journal of Development Economics, 2023

Pumps, Prosperity and Household Power: Experimental Evidence on Irrigation Pumps (with Jeremy Shapiro)

Journal of Development Economics, 2023

Working Papers

How Cultures Converge: An Empirical Investigation of Trade and Linguistic Exchange (with Arthur Blouin)

Diversity and the World's Endangered Languages (with Arthur Blouin)

In Progress

Climate Forecasting, Adaptation, and Legitimacy (with Dennis Ochieng and Ellen Dyer)

Community Politics and Water Resilience (with Dennis Ochieng and Ellen Dyer)

The Political Economy of Embedded State Climate Resilience: Experimental Evidence from Turkana (with Dennis Ochieng, Ellen Dyer, Dalmas Omia, and Peter Opayemi)

Climate-Informed Peacebuilding: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (with Arthur Blouin, Dennis Ochieng, Ellen Dyer, and Dalmas Omia)

Policy Work

Turkana Climate Information System: Scientific Advisory Group

Teaching

Pizza & Research Seminars

BEEM012: Applied Econometrics II

BEEM160: Development Research Methods