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Working Papers

2026

1. Personnel is Policy: Delegation and Political Misalignment in the Rulemaking Process
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (2026)

2024

2. Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment On Public Procurement in Uganda
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)

2023

3. State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State Over 100 Years
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research (2023)

2022

4. Politics At Work
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research (2022)
   See also Journal Article Politics at Work, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2025) (2025)
5. What Drives U.S. Corporate Elites' Campaign Contribution Behavior?
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research

2021

6. Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations, Econometrica, Econometric Society (2023) View citations (27) (2023)

2019

7. Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations
   Working Papers, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
   Also in Documentos de Trabajo, Universidad del Rosario (2018) View citations (9)
   CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research (2019) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2020) View citations (100) (2020)

2017

8. Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
   2017 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics View citations (13)
   Also in CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research (2017) View citations (14)
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group (2016) View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2018) View citations (480) (2018)
9. Intergenerational Mobility and Support for Redistribution
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Influence-Seeking in U.S. Corporate Elites’ Campaign Contribution Behavior
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107, (3), 685-696 View citations (1)
2. Politics at Work
   American Economic Review, 2025, 115, (10), 3367-3414
   See also Working Paper Politics At Work, NBER Working Papers (2022) (2022)

2023

3. Economic Recessions and Congressional Preferences for Redistribution
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2023, 105, (3), 723-732 View citations (15)
4. Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations
   Econometrica, 2023, 91, (4), 1171-1203 View citations (27)
   See also Working Paper Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (5) (2021)

2020

5. Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations
   American Economic Review, 2020, 110, (10), 3071-99 View citations (100)
   See also Working Paper Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations, Working Papers (2019) (2019)

2019

6. The Long-Term Effect of Demographic Shocks on the Evolution of Gender Roles: Evidence from the transatlantic Slave Trade
   Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17, (2), 497-534 View citations (94)

2018

7. Application of text mining techniques to the analysis of discourse in eWOM communications from a gender perspective
   Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2018, 129, (C), 131-142 View citations (1)
8. Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
   American Economic Review, 2018, 108, (2), 521-54 View citations (480)
   See also Working Paper Intergenerational Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution, 2017 Meeting Papers (2017) View citations (13) (2017)