Published / Forthcoming Papers

Do TV and Radio Destroy Social Capital? Evidence from Indonesian Villages
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming.
Data and programs here. Appendix here. 

Corruption Perceptions vs. Corruption Reality
Journal of Public Economics 93 (7-8), pp. 950-964, August 2009.

The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh
with Patrick Barron. Journal of Political Economy 117 (3), pp. 417-252, June 2009. 
Data and programs here.

Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
with Ben Jones. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 1 (2), pp. 55-87, July 2009. 
Data and programs here.

Temperature and Income: Reconciling New Cross Sectional and Panel Estimates
with Melissa Dell and Ben Jones. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 99 (2), pp. 198-204, May 2009.
Appendix here.

A Biological Model of Unions
with Michael Kremer. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1 (2), pp. 150-175, April 2009.
Data and programs here.

The Anatomy of Start-Stop Growth
with Ben Jones. Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (3), pp. 582–587, August 2008.
Longer version: NBER Working Paper #11528 (2005).

Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia
Journal of Political Economy 115 (2), pp. 200-249, April 2007.
Data and programs here. Additional analysis tables here.

Corruption and the Costs of Redistribution
Journal of Public Economics 90 (4-5), pp. 853-870, May 2006.

Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II
with Ben Jones. Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (3), pp. 835 -864, August 2005.

Revealed Community Equivalence Scales
Journal of Public Economics 89 (2-3), pp. 545-566, February 2005.