PUBLISHED PAPERS
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System
American Economic Review, 112 (1): 213-34, 2022.
Norms, Enforcement and Tax Evasion
(with Tim Besley and Torsten Persson) Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
Press: VOX
Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance: Global Evidence and Aggregate Implications
(with Pierre Bachas and Roberto Fattal Jaef) Journal of Development Economics, 140: 203-222, 2019.
WORKING PAPERS
[NEW] Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana
(with James Dzansi, David Lagakos, and Henry Telli)
[REVISED] Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
(with Pierre Bachas and Lucie Gadenne), NBER Working Paper No.27429.
Press: VoxDev; WorldBank
[REVISED] Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
(with Pierre Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, and Gabriel Zucman)
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Informational Barriers to Technology Adoption in Governments: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana
(with James Dzansi, David Lagakos, and Henry Telli)
Fiscal Externalities: Evidence from Tariff Reforms and Domestic Production Networks in Rwanda
(with Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, and Gabriel Tourek)
Productivity Growth in Government: Evidence from Tax Collection
(with Radhika Goyal and David Lagakos)
Tax Incidence in the Presence of an Informal Sector: Evidence from a VAT Rate Increase in Mexico
(with Pierre Bachas, Lucie Gadenne, and Mariana Racimo)
Towards a Cashless Economy? Evidence from the Elasticity of Cash Deposits of Mexican Firms
(with Pierre Bachas and Sean Higgins)
Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System
American Economic Review, 112 (1): 213-34, 2022.
Norms, Enforcement and Tax Evasion
(with Tim Besley and Torsten Persson) Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming.
Press: VOX
Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance: Global Evidence and Aggregate Implications
(with Pierre Bachas and Roberto Fattal Jaef) Journal of Development Economics, 140: 203-222, 2019.
WORKING PAPERS
[NEW] Technology and Local State Capacity: Evidence from Ghana
(with James Dzansi, David Lagakos, and Henry Telli)
[REVISED] Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
(with Pierre Bachas and Lucie Gadenne), NBER Working Paper No.27429.
Press: VoxDev; WorldBank
[REVISED] Globalization and Factor Income Taxation
(with Pierre Bachas, Matthew Fisher-Post, and Gabriel Zucman)
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Informational Barriers to Technology Adoption in Governments: Experimental Evidence from Local Governments in Ghana
(with James Dzansi, David Lagakos, and Henry Telli)
Fiscal Externalities: Evidence from Tariff Reforms and Domestic Production Networks in Rwanda
(with Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, and Gabriel Tourek)
Productivity Growth in Government: Evidence from Tax Collection
(with Radhika Goyal and David Lagakos)
Tax Incidence in the Presence of an Informal Sector: Evidence from a VAT Rate Increase in Mexico
(with Pierre Bachas, Lucie Gadenne, and Mariana Racimo)
Towards a Cashless Economy? Evidence from the Elasticity of Cash Deposits of Mexican Firms
(with Pierre Bachas and Sean Higgins)
NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
State-Building in Resource-Rich Economies
Atlantic Economic Journal, 39 (2): 171-93, 2011
Aid and Public Finance
(with Markus Gstoettner) Atlantic Economic Journal, 38 (2): 217-35, 2010
State-Building in Resource-Rich Economies
Atlantic Economic Journal, 39 (2): 171-93, 2011
Aid and Public Finance
(with Markus Gstoettner) Atlantic Economic Journal, 38 (2): 217-35, 2010