Publications
Cash Crops, Print Technology, and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Africa
With Philip Roessler and Valeria Rueda. 2022. American Political Science Review. 116(1):181–199.
Read (PDF) AbstractGlobalization, Institutions and Ethnic Inequality
With Nils-Christian Bormann, Lars-Erik Cederman, and Nils Weidmann. 2021. International Organization 75(3):665–697.
Read (PDF) AbstractWho Benefits? How Local Ethnic Demography Shapes Political Favoritism in Africa
With Janina Beiser-McGrath and Carl Müller-Crepon. 2020. British Journal of Political Science 41(4):1582–1600.
Read (PDF) AbstractLinking Ethnic Data from Africa
With Carl Müller-Crepon and Nils-Christian Bormann. Journal of Peace Research. Online First.
Read (PDF) AbstractDigging Deeper: On the Role of Grievances in African Mining Conflicts
With Lars-Erik Cederman.
In "Natural Resources, Inequality and Conflict”,
eds. Hamid E. Ali and Lars-Erik Cederman
London: Palgrave Macmillan, Forthcoming
Read (PDF) AbstractWorking Papers
Cash Crops, Colonialism and Legacies of Spatial Inequality: Evidence from Africa
With Philip Roessler, Robert Marty, Kyle Sorlie Titlow, and Nicolas van de Walle. R&R at World Development.
Read (PDF) AbstractThe Future is History: Restorative Nationalism and Conflict in Post-Napoleonic Europe.
With Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, and Carl Müller-Crepon. Working Paper.
Read (PDF) AbstractThe Economic Basis of African Ruling Coalitions: Cash Crops, Minerals, and Ethnic Representation
With Philip Roessler. Working Paper.
Read (PDF) AbstractShare It or Lose it? Power-Sharing and Regime Stability in Multi-Ethnic Autocracies
With Ilyas Saliba. Working Paper.
Read (PDF) AbstractWork in Progress
Biased Income Shocks, Local Cleavages, and Ethnic Violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Coming Soon.
AbstractThe Train Wrecks of Modernization: Railways, Nationalism and Conflict in Long Nineteenth Century Europe
With Carl Müller-Crepon, Roberto Valli, Lars-Erik Cederman and Luc Griardin. In Preparation.
AbstractNaming the Nation: State Building and National Identity Formation in 19th Century Germany
With Carl Müller-Crepon. In Preparation.
AbstractPolicy Papers
Global Conflict Trends and their Consequences
With Lars-Erik Cederman
Background Paper to the United Nations Sustainable Development Outlook 2019
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