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Working Papers

2025

1. Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2024

2. Indirect rule: armed groups and customary chiefs in eastern DRC
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
3. On the Origins of Direct Rule: Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern Congo
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2021

4. Africa's Latent Assets
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Africa's Latent Assets, Journal of African Economies, Centre for the Study of African Economies (2023) (2023)
5. Africa’s Latent Assets
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (5)
6. Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs From Taxation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Journal Article Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs From Taxation, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2025) (2025)

2020

7. You get what you pay for: When do Certification Programs improve Public Service Delivery?
   TSE Working Papers, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
   Also in IAST Working Papers, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) (2020)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs From Taxation
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2025, 92, (2), 1126-1156
   See also Working Paper Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs From Taxation, NBER Working Papers (2021) (2021)

2023

2. Africa's Latent Assets
   Journal of African Economies, 2023, 32, (Supplement_1), i9-i34
   See also Working Paper Africa's Latent Assets, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (5) (2021)
3. Complements or Substitutes? How Institutional Arrangements Bind Traditional Authorities and the State in Africa
   American Political Science Review, 2023, 117, (3), 871-890 View citations (3)
   Also in American Political Science Review, 2025, 119, (4), 2028-2028 (2025)