OpEds and Summaries

“Homophobia and Colonial Christian Missions in Sub-Saharan Africa,” for Broadstreet, August 13, 2021

“The Safest Time to Fly: Pandemic Response in the Era of Fox News,” in Vox-EU, October 20, 2020

“Regime Stability and the Persistence of Traditional Practices​,” in VoxDev, October 4, 2019

“The Employment Effects of a Gender-Specific Minimum Wage​,” in ProMarket, August 30, 2019

“How Private Prisons Affect Sentencing,” in Vox-EU, August 6, 2019

“America’s Captive Labor,” for Project Syndicate, July 11, 2019

“The Impact of Judicial Elections on Criminal Sentencing,” in Vox-EU, June 26, 2019

“State Capacity and Demand for Identity: Evidence from Political Instability in Mali​,” in INET, June 26, 2019

“Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System​,” in INET, March 7, 2019

“The Impact of Convict Labour on Local Wages and Employment: Evidence from Modern American History,” in EHS, April 3, 2018

Research Featured in Media

“Колосс на трех ногах. Путинский режим накануне выборов,” Radio Free Europe, May 8, 2021 (in Russian)

“Electing Judges Doesn't Always Lead to Harsher Sentences, Contrary to Prior Research,” The Academic Times, March 19, 2021
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“Studies Link Viewership of Fox News to Reduced Pandemic Precaution,” Hollywood Reporter, October 28, 2020

“Free Expression on the Margins. The Kremlin and the Media,” Eurozine, October 18, 2019

“Nagyobb profitért lobbiznak ki hosszabb letöltendőket a magánbörtönök,” G7, August 15, 2019 (in Hungarian)

“How Judicial Elections Contribute to Mass Incarceration,” Facing South, July 31, 2019

“How Private Prisons Affect Sentencing,” National Public Radio, aired on Morning Edition, June 28, 2019

“Narrowing a Theory on Why Judges Get Tough before Elections​,” Anderson Review, June 26, 2019

“Judges Influenced by Fox News Give Harsher Sentences: Paper​,” the Crime Report, June 7, 2019 

“How Fox News is Influencing US Judges,” the New Statesman, in "The Brexit Earthquake" issue, May 24, 2019

“Vote and be Hanged​,” the Economist, pp. 24-25, April 27, 2019

“Je billiger der Knast, desto länger die Haft​​,” Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung, p. 18, April 14, 2019 (in German)

“Elections Make Judges Less ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Than Previously Thought,” Washington Free Beacon, April 8, 2019

“Do Private Prisons Lead to Higher Incarceration Rates​?​,” Anderson Review, March 13, 2019

“Capital and Punishment​​,” the Economist, p. 32, April 14, 2018

Research Featured in OpEds, Podcasts, and Blogs

““unAfrican?" Queer Pre-colonial Africa," Utajua Hujui, by Aileen Waitaaga Kimuhu, June 23, 2021

“What's the Latest Research in Development Economics?" World Bank blog, November 9, 2020

“Чем больше голосов за Трампа тем хуже,” by Alexey Zaharov for Rosbalt, October 29, 2020 (in Russian)

“Geschäftsmodell Knast,” Sagwas, April 15, 2020 (in German)
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“Exposure to Conservative News Causes Judges to Impose Harsher Criminal Sentences,” ETH Zürich Center for Law & Economics vlog, July 4, 2019

“Convict Labour in Modern American History,” The Long Run the Economic History Society blog, June 4, 2019

“Trump's Tariff Triple Option,” the Weeds, Vox's podcast, June 4, 2019 

“Private Prisons Are a Failed Experiment​,” by Noah Smith for Bloomberg Opinion, April 1, 2019

“Can American Democracy Come Back?​​,” by Joseph E. Stiglitz for Project Syndicate, Nov 6, 2018

“Prison Labor: a Boon to Greater Patenting?,” by Neil Wilkof for IPKat, June 10, 2018

“The New Autocracy: Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia​,” by J. W. Peterson for the Choice Reviews, June 2018, vol. 55 no. 10

“How Putin’s Regime is both Authoritarian and Incompetent,” by Daniel Treisman for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, March 14, 2018

“Главное о России. Политология​​​,” by Boris Grozovsky for IQ.HSE.RU, August 22, 2017 (in Russian)

“What's the Latest Economic Research on Africa?" World Bank blog, March 24, 2016

I made this photo near CMU in April 2019.
Ironically, I was presenting paper on how elected judges cater to changing voter preferences due to exposure to `tough-on-crime' rhetoric of Fox News that day.