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Working Papers

2023

1. Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2022

2. Civilian alternatives to policing: Evidence from Medellín’s community problem-solving intervention Operación Convivencia
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years: Experimental Evidence
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)

2021

4. Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)

2019

5. Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
6. Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (12)
7. The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)

2018

8. Engineering Informal Institutions: Long-run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
9. The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-year Evidence From Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)

2017

10. Do Anti-Poverty Programs Sway Voters? Experimental Evidence from Uganda
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
11. Place-Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (23)

2016

12. Can War Foster Cooperation?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (216)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2016) View citations (216)
    HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network (2016) View citations (179)
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (217)
    See also Journal Article Can War Foster Cooperation?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association (2016) View citations (217) (2016)
13. Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (26)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (26)
14. Occupational choice in early industrializing societies: Experimental evidence on the income and health effects of industrial an
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (27)
15. Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (2)
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2015) View citations (13)
16. Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia [Appendix]
    Artefactual Field Experiments, The Field Experiments Website View citations (3)
17. Reducing crime and violence: experimental evidence on adult noncognitive investments in Liberia
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations (3)

2015

18. Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
19. Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Measuring the measurement error: A method to qualitatively validate survey data, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (2016) View citations (29) (2016)
20. The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (11)
    See also Journal Article The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association (2016) View citations (56) (2016)

2012

21. Building institutions at the micro-level: Results from a field experiment in property dispute and conflict resolution
    HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network View citations (3)
22. Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda
    Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research View citations (21)
    Also in Social Protection Discussion Papers and Notes, The World Bank (2011) View citations (9)
    HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network (2012) View citations (17)

2011

23. Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Price- Working Paper 274
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (9)

2010

24. The Industrial Organization of Rebellion: The Logic of Forced Labor and Child Soldiering
    HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network View citations (11)

2009

25. Civil War
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)
    Also in Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2009) View citations (22)
    See also Journal Article Civil War, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association (2010) View citations (579) (2010)
26. Civil War: A Review of 50 Years of Research
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (9)
27. Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research
    Working Papers, eSocialSciences View citations (3)
28. Women and Girls at War: Wives, Mothers, and Fighters in the Lord s Resistance Army
    HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network View citations (6)

2008

29. From Violence to Voting: War and political participation in Uganda
    Working Papers, Center for Global Development View citations (28)

2006

30. The Consequences of Child Soldiering
    HiCN Working Papers, Households in Conflict Network View citations (32)
    See also Journal Article The Consequences of Child Soldiering, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2010) View citations (151) (2010)

2005

31. The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change
    CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2004) View citations (23)
    Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (2004) View citations (8)

2003

32. The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (19)
33. Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938
    Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research View citations (5)

Journal Articles

2016

1. Can War Foster Cooperation?
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30, (3), 249-74 View citations (217)
   See also Working Paper Can War Foster Cooperation?, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (216) (2016)
2. Measuring the measurement error: A method to qualitatively validate survey data
   Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, (C), 99-112 View citations (29)
   See also Working Paper Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (3) (2015)
3. The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda
   American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8, (2), 35-64 View citations (56)
   See also Working Paper The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (11) (2015)

2015

4. Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1)
   Social Science & Medicine, 2015, 133, (C), 177-188 View citations (19)

2014

5. Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices
   American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6, (4), 1-38 View citations (297)
6. Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
   The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129, (2), 697-752 View citations (206)

2013

7. The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion
   International Organization, 2013, 67, (1), 65-104 View citations (25)

2011

8. Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda
   Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2011, 55, (6), 877-908 View citations (38)

2010

9. Civil War
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2010, 48, (1), 3-57 View citations (579)
   See also Working Paper Civil War, NBER Working Papers (2009) View citations (10) (2009)
10. The Consequences of Child Soldiering
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92, (4), 882-898 View citations (151)
    See also Working Paper The Consequences of Child Soldiering, HiCN Working Papers (2006) View citations (32) (2006)

2007

11. Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870-1939
    Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 82, (1), 156-179 View citations (186)