In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and
study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European …

This study examines how the historical state conditions long‐run development, using
Vietnam as a laboratory. Northern Vietnam (Dai Viet) was ruled by a strong, centralized state …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of
history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on …

The economic costs of Indonesia's 2015 forest fires are estimated to exceed US $16 billion,
with more than 100,000 premature deaths. On several days the fires emitted more carbon …

This paper estimates the local welfare impacts of highway maintenance investments. We
instrument road quality exploiting Indonesia's two-step budgeting process for allocating …

This paper shows that the level of deforestation in Indonesia is positively related to the
degree of ethnic fractionalization. To identify a causal relation, we exploit the exogenous …

Indonesia's oil palm expansion during the last two decades has resulted in widespread
environmental and health damages through land clearing by fire and peat conversion, but it …

Decentralization reforms have swept through the developing world over the past three
decades (Bardhan 2002). While much academic and policy attention has been paid to the …

To what extent do voters hold local elected leaders accountable for public service delivery in
fiscally and politically decentralized environments, as theory suggests should be the case …

How feasible is violence early-warning prediction? Colombia and Indonesia have unusually
fine-grained data. We assemble two decades of local violent events alongside hundreds of …