Research

• Critical Junctures and the Economic Origins of Autocracy

Working paper available upon request

• Can Cash Transfers Save Lives? Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Kenya.

(with Michael Walker, Edward Miguel, Dennis Egger, and Grady Killeen)

NBER Working Paper #34152, 2025.

• Savings Constraints in Poverty

(with Supreet Kaur and Jeremy Magruder)

Project in progress

• Rethinking Global Food Demand for 2050

(with Walter P. Falcon and Rosamond L. Naylor)

Population and Development Review, 2022, 48(4): 921-957.