Research

Working Papers

Misperceptions and Demand for Democracy under Authoritarianism
With Daron Acemoglu, Cevat Aksoy, Carlos Molina, and Gamze Zeki  ·  March 2025  ·  NBER Working Paper 33018  ·  CEPR Discussion Paper 19536  ·  Revise and Resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
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Demand for Gender Equality in Conservative Contexts
With Carlos Molina, Antonia Paredes-Haz, and Gamze Zeki  ·  Draft available

Publications

The Agricultural Wage Gap Within Rural Villages
With Manzoor H. Dar, Kyle Emerick, Zhimin Li, and Elisabeth Sadoulet  ·  Journal of Development Economics, May 2024, 168, 103270
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Persistent Polarizing Effects of Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from Turkey
American Economic Review, November 2022, 112(11): 3528–46
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Building Social Cohesion in Ethnically Mixed Schools: An Intervention on Perspective Taking
With Sule Alan, Mert Gumren, and Elif Kubilay  ·  Quarterly Journal of Economics, March 2021, 136(4): 2147–2194
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Non-Economic Factors in Violence: Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides & Climate in Mexico
With Marshall Burke, Felipe Gonzalez, Solomon Hsiang, and Edward Miguel  ·  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, December 2019, 168, 434–452
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Effect of High Ambient Temperature on Suicide Rates in the United States and Mexico
With Marshall Burke, Felipe Gonzalez, Patrick Baylis, Sam Heft-Neal, Sanjay Basu, and Sol Hsiang  ·  Nature Climate Change, 2018
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Work in Progress

Diversity, Social Integration, and Business Networks
With Onur Altindag, Lydia Assouad, Carlos Molina, and Miray Omurtak  ·  In the field
From Indoctrination to Diffusion: The Legacy of Women Combatants
With Micaela Sviatschi and Natalia Guerrero Trinidad