Publications

Political Economy of Development

• Quantity over Quality? Local Income Inequalities and Public Service Delivery in Brazil. Forthcoming. The Journal of Politics.

• Undermining Clientelism with Collective Confidence: Unbundling the Individual and Spillover Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers. 2026. Latin American Research Review 61(1):124-46.

  • Replication Data

• Pro-Poor Governance: Evidence on Incentivizing Policy Implementation in Brazil. 2026. Politics and Governance 14(11280).

  • Replication Data

• Book Review: Decadent Developmentalism, Matthew Taylor. Brazilian Political Science Review.

• How the Labor Force is Mobilized: Patterns in Informality, Political Networks, and Political Linkages in Brazil. 2020. In Cariboni, S. L., editor, Political Economy of Informality in BRIC Countries. World Scientific Publishing. With Soledad Artiz Prillaman.

• Can Bihar Break the Clientelist Trap? The Political Effects of Programmatic Development Policy. 2017. International Growth Centre Working Paper, S-34311-INB-1.

  • Ideas 4 India Blog
    
  • International Growth Centre Blog

• [Working Paper] Outsiders Against the Party Machine: Programmatic Reform in Subnational Democracies

  • Jota Blog

• [Working Paper] Why Do Parties Launch Programmatic Reform? A Theory of Comparative Advantage and a Brazilian Case Study. With Frances Hagopian.

• [Working Paper] Why are Bureaucrats More Left-Wing? Presented at Pre-Conference, EPSA, 2025. With Julia Coyoli, Emmerich Davies and Leslie Finger.

• [Working Paper] Family Politics: An Experiment on Household Incentives and Women’s Civic Participation in rural India. With Soledad Artiz Prillaman.

• [Working Paper] Women as Agents of Change?: Explaining the Gender Gap in Clientelism. With Soledad Artiz Prillaman.

• [Working Paper] Who is Invisible to the State? Street-Level Bureaucrats and Navigating the Unfamiliar in Northern Nigeria. Presented at EPSA 2026.

Politics of Public Health

• Opportunistic Accountability : State-Society Bargaining Over Shared Interests. 2018. Comparative Political Studies 51(8), 1-31. With Shelby Grossman and Leah Rosenzweig.

  • Monkey Cage, Washington Post
  • Replication Data

• State Capability and Rwanda’s Health Gains. 2015. Lancet Global Health 3(6). With Ranu Dhillon.

• Challenges of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis for MDGs Spending and Policies in Nigeria in The Global Economic Crisis and Nigeria: Taking the Right Lessons, Avoiding the Wrong Lessons. 2019. Eric Eboh and Osita Ogbu (eds.) African Institute for Applied Economics. With Ndidi Ozegbe.

Corruption

• The Power of Money in Electoral Campaigns. 2019. CEPESP-FGV. With George Avelino, Ciro Biderman, Natália Bueno and Lara Mesquita.

• The Cost of Campaign Finance in Brazil: An Analysis Based on Evidence. 2019. CEPESP-FGV. With George Avelino, Ciro Biderman, Natália Bueno and Lara Mesquita.

Climate Politics and Economics

• Diagne, A., Glover, S., Groom, B., & Phillips, J. (2012). Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs). 2012. SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series 176. With Aliou Diagne, Ben Groom
  • World Financial Review
• China’s Balance of Emissions Embodied in Trade: Approaches to Measurement and Allocating International Responsibility. 2008. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24(2), 354-376. With Jiahua Pen and Ying Chen.
  • Chapter 8 in The Economics and Politics of Climate Change. 2009. Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn (eds.). Oxford University Press. With Jiahua Pen and Ying Chen.
• [Working Paper] Can Deliberative Public Meetings Foster Climate Knowledge and Policy Demand? Presented at EPSA 2025. With Soledad Artiz Prillaman.