I investigate the economic consequences of travel costs in a conflicted and developing country setting, and advance the application of nighttime lights satellite imagery for …
This thesis comprises two separate papers about political violence. The first paper explores how direct and indirect external threats to national security can shape the …
This dissertation is composed of three chapters on comparative development and political economy. Chapter I examines empirically the role of historical political centralization on the …
This dissertation traces how "Alternative Dispute Resolution" (ADR) traveled from corporate boardrooms, World Bank policy conferences, the U.S. State Department, and Harvard Negotiation Program to …
The struggle for economic resources and political power has played a key role in human history. Political institutions and the distribution of economic resources define …