Research
Economics
“Stigma and Benefit Take-up: Evidence from English Tabloid Newspapers” with Simon Löwe (working paper soon).
“Killing for Peace: The Effect of Peace Conference Announcements on Deaths in the Syrian Conflict” (in progress).
Computer Science
CS papers are normally published at peer-reviewed conferences, rather than in journals.
“Too many Kennedys” with Abhishek Arora, Leander Heldring and Melissa Dell (in progress).
“News Deja Vu: Connecting Past and Present with Semantic Search” with Brevin Franklin, Abhishek Arora, Tom Bryan and Melissa Dell (2024), Workshop on NLP and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS) at NAACL.
“American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers”, with Melissa Dell, Jacob Carlson, Tom Bryan, Abhishek Arora, Zejiang Shen, Luca D'Amico-Wong, Quan Le, Pablo Querubin and Leander Heldring (2023), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) [Arxiv]
“A Massive Scale Semantic Similarity Dataset of Historical English” with Abhishek Arora and Melissa Dell (2023), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) [Arxiv]
“Noise-Robust De-Duplication at Scale” with Luca D'Amico Wong, Jinglin Yang and Melissa Dell (2023), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [NBER] [Arxiv] [ICLR]
Book Chapters
“Oil and Turmoil: Jordan’s adjustment challenges amid local and regional change” with Riad al Khouri in Oil and the Political Economy of the Middle East, Beck and Richter (eds.), 2021, Manchester University Press. [View]
Policy Reports
“Plan National de Développement 2020 – 2024 ‘Djibouti ICI’ ” (2021), Ministère de l’Economie, des Finances et de l’Industrie, Djibouti. [French] [English]
“Principled aid in divided times: Harnessing national values and interests in bilateral pandemic response” (2020) with Nilima Gulrajani, Overseas Development Institute Working Paper 596. [View]
Coverage: Sunday Times, Independent, Devex, DonorTracker, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, Der Standard.
“What is principled aid? Measuring donor motivations in 2020” (2020) with Nilima Gulrajani, Overseas Development Institute Working Paper 597. [View]
Coverage: World Bank.
"Higher Education Statistics Annual Abstract, 2011 EC (2018/19)" (April 2020), Ministry of Science and Higher Education Ethiopia. [View]
"Economic impacts of and policy responses to the coronavirus pandemic: early evidence from Egypt" (April 2020), Overseas Development Institute. [View]
"Public-Private Dialogue in the Policy-Making Process" (June 2018), for the Office of the Prime Minister, Jordan.
Book Reviews
"Review: Crony Capitalism in the Middle East" (2020), Contemporary Levant, 5(2), pp. 190-192. [View]
"Review: Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment" (2020), Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, pp. 65-66. [View]
"Review: Political economies of the Middle East and North Africa" (2020), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 47(4). [View]
"Review: Aiding and Abetting: U.S. foreign assistance and state violence" (2020), Contemporary Arab Affairs, 13(2). [View]