My main research and teaching interests are in political economy of development with a special focus on conflict. I have extensively worked on understanding how the political Hutu elites orchestrated the Rwandan Genocide.

I obtained my PhD from the IIES at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Research on the Rwandan Genocide

— The Preparation

Preparing for Genocide: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Rwanda. (with Evelina Bonnier, Jonas Poulsen and Miri Stryjan)

▪ Journal of Development Economics 147 (2020): 102533 ▪ Online Appendix                                                                                         

— The Execution

Mobilizing the Masses for Genocide.

▪ American Economic Review 2021, 111(1) ▪ Online Appendix

— The Aftermath

Yes They Can: Empowering Women. (with Sofia Nordenving and Tatiana Zarate-Barrera)

Other Working Papers

How Did the “Black Lives Matter” Protests Flip the 2020 Presidential Election? (with Nicole Fortin and Joyce Law)

Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa. (with Andrea Guariso) Conditionally accepted at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Community Meetings and Voter Control in Non-Democracies.  Conditionally accepted at Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Orchestrating Mass Violence: The Lithuanian Holocaust.

The Roots of Violence and Racism in the US: Historical Lynchings and Today’s Police Brutality (with Juan Felipe Riano)

Work-in-Progress

Organized Violence and Voting