Selected Recent Publications
“Government Decentralization as a Commitment in Non-Democracies,” 2017, Journal of Comparative Economics, 45, 110-118.
"Income Windfalls and Schooling: Evidence from International Oil Price Shocks," 2016, with M. Brueckner, Journal of Human Capital, 10, 212-234.
“National Income and its Distribution,” 2015, with M. Brueckner and E. Dabla Norris, Journal of Economic Growth, 20, 149-175.
“Government Spending Cyclicality: Evidence from Transitory and Persistent Shocks in Developing Countries,” 2014, with M. Brueckner, Journal of Development Economics, 111, 107-116.
“Exogenous Volatility and the Size of Government,” 2013, with M. Brueckner, Journal of Development Economics, 105, 254-266.
“Effects of Transitory Shocks to Aggregate Output on Consumption in Poor Countries,” 2013, with M. Brueckner, Journal of International Economics, 91, 343-357.
“Estimating Permanent Income Elasticity of Government Expenditures: Evidence on Wagner's Law Based on Oil Price Shocks,” 2012, Journal of Public Economics, 96, 1025-35 (with M. Brueckner and A. Chong).