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Industrial Organization, Development Economics

Publications

(Authors with * are UH students)

[1] “The Value of Free Water: Analyzing South Africa’s Free Basic Water Policy”

Econometrica 83(5), September 2015, 1913–1961.

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[2] “Reducing Nonpayment for Public Utilities: Experimental Evidence from South Africa” (with Gergely Ujhelyi)

Journal of Development Economics 117, 2015, 20-31.

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Supplementary materials and photos

[3] “Choice and Happiness in South Africa” (with Gergely Ujhelyi)

Economics Letters 155, 2017, 28-30.

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[4] “Measuring Firm-level Inefficiencies in the Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector”

Economic Development and Cultural Change 66, 2018, 447-487.

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[5] “None Of The Above: Protest Voting in the World’s Largest Democracy” (with Gergely Ujhelyi and Somdeep Chatterjee*)

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Journal of the European Economic Association 19(3), 2021, 1936–1979.

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[6] “Net Neutrality and Consumer Demand in the Video On-demand Market” (with Vinh Pham*)

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Information Economics and Policy 61, 2022, 1-20.

Working papers

[7] “Bundling to Save“

[January 2023 Version]

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[8] “National Parks and Economic Development”

(with Gergely Ujhelyi)

[February 2023 Version]

Partially supersedes “Economic Impacts of the US National Park System”

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Additional Data Appendix

“Economic Impacts of the US National Park System”

(with Gergely Ujhelyi)

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Additional Data Appendix

[9] “Family Financing and Aggregate Manufacturing Productivity in Ghana” (with Gergely Ujhelyi)

[10] “Job Search Through Weak and Strong Ties: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia” (with Tolga Umut Kuzubas)

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Work in progress

“Dams in the United States”

“Postal Service Reform in Ghana”

“The interaction of the formal and informal sector in Ghana”