Working papers

Abstract: We study how voters process information through two experiments around Indian elections. In a large-scale experiment, we show that providing voters information about candidates' criminal charges increases votes for clean candidates and redu...

Abstract: Digital payment systems are frequently described as a means of expanding state capacity in lower-income countries; however, program performance gains may be weakened if digitization reduces (or leaves unchanged) program information availabl...

Abstract: The concept of hedging enjoys increasing use and attention in studies of international relations, particularly with respect to secondary states in the context of great power relations and competition. Increasingly, there is a consensus that...

Abstract: What explains the emergence of leftist national liberation rebel groups? I argue that in imperial settings in the late-19th to mid-20th centuries, assimilatory education programs drew colonial elites to the imperial metropole. There, coloni...