Research

Published/Forthcoming Papers

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

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

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

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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.

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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,

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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), prepared for Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, 2022

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Working Papers

Media Ownership and Ideological Slant: Evidence from Australian Newspaper Mergers (with Ekaterina Volkova), Revisions requested from PLOS One

Absorbing Shocks by Accumulating Risk (with Antonia Settle), Revisions requested from Socio-Economic Review

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

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Prison Norms and Society Beyond Bars (with Michael Poyker)

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Patent Protection and Innovative Entrepreneurship (with Natalia Lamberova)

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The Causal Effect of Pet Ownership on Health and Well-being (with Ferdi Botha, Natalia Lamberova, and Kyle Peyton)

[Working paper availabe upon request]

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)