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Academic research

Ongoing projects

See my ongoing research projects and program evaluations here.

Working papers/In progress:

The Industrial Organization of Rebellion: The Logic of Forced Recruitment and Child Soldiering (2010), with Bernd Beber

Civil War, Gender and Reintegration in northern Uganda (2010), with Jeannie Annan, Dyan Mazurana, and Khristopher Carlson

Commodities and Conflict (2009), with Samuel Bazzi

Published and Forthcoming:

The Consequences of Child Soldiering (in press), with Jeannie Annan, The Review of Economics and Statistics (replication files)

Civil War (2010), with Edward Miguel, The Journal of Economic Literature

From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda (2009), The American Political Science Review (replication files)

On the Nature and Causes of LRA abduction: What the Abductees Say (in press), with Jeannie Annan, The Lord’s Resistance Army: War, Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Uganda (Allen & Vlassenroot, eds.)

Child Combatants in Northern Uganda: Reintegration Myths and Realities (2008), with Jeannie Annan, Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War (Robert Muggah, ed.)

Winners and Losers in the Commodity Lottery: The Impact of Terms of Trade Growth and Volatility in the Periphery, 1870-1939 (2007), with Jason Hwang and Jeffrey Williamson, The Journal of Development Economics (download commodity and trade data)