Publications

Selected publications

Why are relatively poor people not more supportive of redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment across 10 countries (published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy) [Available here]

American Exceptionalism? Differences in the Elasticity of Preferences for Redistribution between the United States and Western Europe (published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization) [Available here]

Helping Us or Helping Them? What Makes Foreign Aid Popular with Donor Publics? (published in Economic Development and Cultural Change) [Available here]

Increasing Tax Compliance Without Increasing Revenue: Evidence from Population-Wide Randomized Control Trials in Papua New Guinea (published in Economic Development and Cultural Change) [Available here]

How Does the Progressivity of Taxes Impact People’s Willingness to Pay Tax? Experimental Evidence across Developing Countries” (under submission) (Revise & resubmit at Journal of Development Economics) [Available here]

Other publications

Can a Multipronged Strategy of “Soft” Interventions Surmount Structural Barriers for Financial Inclusion? Evidence From the Unbanked in Papua New Guinea (published in Journal of Development Studies) [Available here]

Measuring Global Poverty Before and During the Pandemic: a Political Economy of Overoptimism (published in Third World Quarterly) [Available here]

Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy : Survey and Experimental Evidence from Papua New Guinea (published in PLoS ONE) [Available here]

How have formal firms recovered from the pandemic? Insights from Survey and Tax Administrative data in Zambia (published in Journal of African Economies) [Available here]

A False Divide? Correcting Beliefs about Inequality Aligns Preferences for Redistribution Between Right- and Left-Wing Voters (Forthcoming at Journal of Economic Inequality) [Available here]

The Effect of Geostrategic Competition on Public Attitudes to Aid (published in Journal of Experimental Political Science) [Available here]

How Information About Economic Inequality Impacts Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment across Australia, Indonesia and Mexico (published in Social Problems) [Available here]

The End of Global Poverty: Is the UN Sustainable Development Goal 1 (Still) Achievable? (published in Global Policy) [Available here]

“How does Information about Inequality Shape Voting Intentions and Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Indonesia” with Russell Toth (University of Sydney) and Nurina Merdikawati (JPAL) (Revise & resubmit at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics) [Available here]

“Intra-Household Dynamics and Attitudes toward Vaccines: Experimental Evidence from Zambia” with Rajee Kanagavel (UNDP) and Corey Cameron (Google) (Revise & resubmit at Review of Economics of the Household) [Available here]