Research

Published/Forthcoming Papers

The Causal Effect of Pet Ownership on Health and Well-being (with Ferdi Botha, Natalia Lamberova, and Kyle Peyton), Applied Research in Quality of Life, forthcoming

Impact of Prison Experience on Anti-Gay Sentiments: Longitudinal Analysis of Inmates and Their Families (with Michael Poyker), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 241, 2026, 107324

Media Ownership and Ideological Slant: Evidence from Australian Newspaper Mergers (with Ekaterina Volkova), PLoS ONE 19.12 (2024): e0315137

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Identity and Conflict: Evidence from Tuareg Rebellion in Mali (with Michael Poyker). World Development, Volume 161, January 2023, 106108

[Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Political Economy of Cross-Border Income Shifting: A Protection Racket Approach, Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 50, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 1087-1102

[Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Do Dictators Signal Strength with Electoral Fraud? (with Michael Poyker), European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 71, January 2022, 102075

[Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

The Safest Time To Fly: Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News (with Michael Poyker and Yuan Tian), Journal of Population Economics, April, 2021, Pages 775-802.

[Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Christian Missions and Anti-Gay Attitudes in Africa (with Michael Poyker), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 184, April 2021, Pages 359-374

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Effect of Income on Trust: Evidence from the 2009 Crisis in Russia (with Sergei Guriev), The Economic Journal, Volume 129, Issue 619, April 2019, Pages 1082–1118,

[Published Version] [Working Paper Version]

Policy Reports on Economic Disadvantage in Australia

Shepparton: Snapshot Report (with Abigail Payne and Rajeev Samarage)

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Individual Earnings Changes and the Business Cycle: An Analysis of Australian Longitudinal Tax Data(with Abigail Payne, Roger Wilkins, and Federico Zilio

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Prevalence of, and Recovery from, Negative Earnings Shocks: Evidence from Three Decades of Longitudinal Tax Data(with Abigail Payne, Roger Wilkins, and Federico Zilio

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Measuring Individual Poverty: Correlates and Variation Over Time (with Abigail Payne and Rajeev Samarage)

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Invited Contributions

Covid-19 and the Media (with Michael Poyker and Yuan Tian), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

[Working Paper Version]

Economic and Political Impacts of Evangelical Christianity (with Michael Poyker), book chapter in Nirvikar Singh ed., Handbook of Religion, Economics, and Public Policy, World Scientific, forthcoming

Working Papers

Prison Norms and Society Beyond Bars (with Michael Poyker), Reject & Resubmit, Journal of European Economic Association

[IZA Discussion Paper]

Household Insurance and Financial Stress: Do Households Maintain Coverage on Their Most Important Assets? (with Antonia Settle), Revise & Resubmit, Socio-Economic Review

[Melbourne Institute Working Paper]

Absorbing Shocks by Accumulating Risk: Do Financially Stressed Households Take on Underinsurance Risk to Manage Liquidity Constraint? (with Antonia Settle)

[Melbourne Institute Working Paper]

Effects of Private Health Insurance on the Substitution of Private-Public Hospital Care: Evidence from a Natural-Experiment in Australia (with Jongsay Yong and Yuting Zhang)

Patent Protection, Funding Access, and Resilience of Software Startups: Analyzing the Impact of the Alice Decision (with Natalia Lamberova)

Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship (with Dimitrios Xefteris, Galina Zudenkova and Maria Petrova)

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Book Chapters

Inside the Kremlin: The Presidency and Executive Branch

A chapter in The New Autocracy: Information, Policy and Politics in Putin’s Russia (ed: Daniel Treisman), Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2018 (order link) (JSTOR link)

Public Opinion and Russian Politics (with Kirill Rogov)

A chapter in The New Autocracy: Information, Policy and Politics in Putin’s Russia (ed: Daniel Treisman), Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2018 (order link) (JSTOR link)