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Working Papers

2023

1. Illuminating Africa?
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy
2. Public Disclosure and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uganda
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy View citations (3)
   Also in CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2023) View citations (3)
   CSAE Working Paper Series, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford (2023) View citations (4)
3. The Role of Social Connections in the Racial Segregation of US Cities
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

2022

4. Ask a local: Improving the public pricing of land titles in urban Tanzania
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy View citations (1)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2022) View citations (2)
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2022) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Ask a Local: Improving the Public Pricing of Land Titles in Urban Tanzania, The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press (2025) (2025)
5. No inventor is an island: social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (8)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2020)
   CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2020) View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article No inventor is an island: Social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US, Research Policy, Elsevier (2022) View citations (12) (2022)

2020

6. Building the city: from slums to a modern metropolis
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (7)
   Also in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2020) View citations (12)
   See also Journal Article Building the City: From Slums to a Modern Metropolis, The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd (2021) View citations (16) (2021)
7. Eliciting demand for title deeds: lab-in-the-field evidence from urban Tanzania
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (1)

2019

8. Building the city: urban transition and institutional frictions
   Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (18)
   Also in SERC Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2016) View citations (9)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2016) View citations (10)

2017

9. Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (4)
   Also in SERC Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE (2017) View citations (11)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (12)
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2017) View citations (4)
   LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library (2017) View citations (3)
   Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics (2017) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2021) View citations (7) (2021)

2016

10. Building functional cities
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (25)
11. Building the city: sunk capital, sequencing andinstitutional frictions
    LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library View citations (9)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Ask a Local: Improving the Public Pricing of Land Titles in Urban Tanzania
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107, (1), 188-203
   See also Working Paper Ask a local: Improving the public pricing of land titles in urban Tanzania, Working Papers (2022) View citations (1) (2022)

2024

2. Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania
   Urban Studies, 2024, 61, (11), 2080-2098 View citations (1)

2022

3. No inventor is an island: Social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US
   Research Policy, 2022, 51, (2) View citations (12)
   See also Working Paper No inventor is an island: social connectedness and the geography of knowledge flows in the US, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2022) View citations (8) (2022)

2021

4. Building the City: From Slums to a Modern Metropolis
   (New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution of Land for Capital)
   The Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88, (3), 1157-1192 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper Building the city: from slums to a modern metropolis, LSE Research Online Documents on Economics (2020) View citations (7) (2020)
5. Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long-Run Evidence from Tanzania
   Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129, (7), 2112 - 2156 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania, CESifo Working Paper Series (2017) View citations (4) (2017)

2017

6. Life in a slum: understanding living conditions in Nairobi’s slums across time and space
   Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2017, 33, (3), 496-520 View citations (14)