Working Papers

Strengthening Fragile States:  Evidence from Mobile Salary Payments in Afghanistan

Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies

(with Joshua Blumenstock, Anastasiia Faikina, Stefano Fiorin, and Tarek Ghani)

[PDF] [Archived June 2023 Draft]

Measuring Religion From Behavior: Violence, Economic Shocks, and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan

Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

(with Oeindrila Dube and Joshua Blumenstock)

[PDF]

From People’s War to People’s Rule: Rebel Governance and the Foundations of Inclusive Democracy

(with Bhishma Bhusal, Saad Gulzar, Soledad Prillaman, Rohini Pande, and Deepak Singhania)

[Draft available on request]

Publications

Can Digital Aid Deliver During Humanitarian Crises?

Management Science. 2025.

(with Miguel Fajardo-Steinhauser, Michael Findley, and Tarek Ghani)

[PDF] [Published Version]

Personalities and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

Economic Development and Cultural Change.  2025. 

(with Saad Gulzar, Muhammad Yasir Khan, and Arman Rezaee)

[PDF] [Published Version]

Experiments About Institutions

Annual Review of Economics. 2024. 

(with Jonathan L. Weigel and Noam Yuchtman)

[PDF] [Published Version]