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Research Interests
Industrial Organization, Development
Economics
Publications
(Authors with * are current or former UH
students)
[1] “The Value of Free Water: Analyzing South
Africa’s Free Basic Water Policy”
Econometrica 83(5),
September 2015, 1913–1961.
Online Appendix
Summary
[2] “Reducing Nonpayment for Public Utilities:
Experimental Evidence from South Africa”
(with Gergely Ujhelyi)
Journal of Development Economics 117, 2015, 20-31.
Online
Appendix
Supplementary
materials and photos
Summary
[3] “Choice and Happiness in South Africa”
(with Gergely Ujhelyi)
Economics Letters 155, 2017, 28-30.
Online Appendix
[4] “Measuring Firm-level Inefficiencies in the
Ghanaian Manufacturing Sector”
Economic Development and Cultural Change 66, 2018, 447-487.
Online Appendix
[5] “None Of The Above: Protest Voting in the
World’s Largest Democracy” (with Gergely
Ujhelyi and Somdeep Chatterjee*)
Online Appendix
Journal of the European Economic Association 19(3), 2021, 1936–1979.
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[6] “Net Neutrality and Consumer Demand in the
Video On-demand Market” (with Vinh Pham*)
Online Appendix
Information Economics and Policy 61, 2022, 1-20.
[7] “National Parks and Economic Development” (with Gergely
Ujhelyi)
Journal of Public Economics, 232, 2024.
Online Appendix
Data Appendix
Summary
Working papers
[8] “Bundling
to save: Analyzing package size choices in South African grocery stores”
[July 2026 Version]
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[9] “Do Parties and Voters Disagree? An Equilibrium Analysis of Candidate
Selection in India” (with Arvind Magesan and Gergely Ujhelyi), Conditionally accepted at Econometrica.
[December 2025 Version]
Online Appendix
Summary
[10] “Evaluating Industry Impacts and Externalities of the US
National Park System” (with Gergely Ujhelyi)
[December 2023 Version]
Online
Appendix
Summary
[11] “Family Financing and Aggregate
Manufacturing Productivity in Ghana” (with Gergely
Ujhelyi)
[12] “Job
Search Through Weak and Strong Ties: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia” (with Tolga Umut Kuzubas)
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Work in progress
“Beyond
Profit: Measuring Efficiency and Productivity in the Postal Sector” (with Dietrich Vollrath)
“Banking
Expansion in Bangladesh: The Impact of Rural-Urban Branch Regulations” (Md Shahadath Hossain and Nabila Rahman Biju*)
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