Research

Working papers and projects

Job market paper

Can Religion Bridge Ethnic Divides? Experimental Evidence from the DRC

With Elie Kabue.

Funded by

CEGA Development Economics Challenge
Weiss Fund Research Grant
CEPR ReCIPE PhD Research Grant
J-PAL Multidisciplinary Grant

Work in progress

Signals, Noise, and Narratives: Cultural Storytelling as a Technology for Cooperation

With Elie Kabue and Edgar Sanchez-Cuevas.

Work in progress

Legal Antecedents of Fiscal Capacity: Experimental Evidence from Congo

With Augustin Bergeron, Eva Davoine, Marina Ngoma, James Robinson, and Jonathan Weigel.

Before the Ph.D.

Before the Ph.D., I was interested in local public good provision in Brazil and the political cycles that shape when public investments are started, delayed, or completed.

Political turnover, electoral incentives and public inefficiencies: evidence from unfinished infrastructure projects in Brazil

Master's thesis · PUC-Rio · Advisor: Claudio Ferraz