PUBLISHED PAPERS
Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance: Global Evidence and Aggregate Implications
(with Pierre Bachas and Roberto Fattal Jaef), Journal of Development Economics, 140, 2019

WORKING PAPERS
[REVISED] Informality, Consumption Taxes and Redistribution
(with Pierre Bachas and Lucie Gadenne), NBER Working Paper No.27429.
Press: VoxDev; WorldBank

Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System 
NBER Working Paper No. 25502. Revise & Resubmit, American Economic Review

Norms, Enforcement and Tax Evasion
(with Tim Besley and Torsten Persson), NBER Working Paper No.25575. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economics and Statistics
Press: VOX
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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)

​Technology and Tax Capacity: Evidence from Local Taxes 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 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)

Progressivity and ​​Development
(with Pierre Bachas and Gabriel Zucman)

NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
State-Building in Resource-Rich Economies
Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (2), pp.171-193

Aid and Public Finance
(with Markus Gstoettner) Atlantic Economic Journal,  2010, 38 (2), pp.217-235