Research

Here is a list of my projects and works in progress. Please feel free to email me if you are interested in discussing or collaborating on any of these projects.

Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa

• Coups and Social Trust: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Burkina Faso. (With Robin Harding and Thomas Isbell). Under review.

Non-Sate Security

• The Centralization of Security and Citizen Safety: Evidence from Mozambique.
• Conceptualizing Non-State Security. Revise and resubmit at Conflict Management and Peace Science.
• How the State Legitimizes Non-State Security Provision.

Meta-Science

• Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope. (With Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al.). Conditional acceptance at Nature.

• Tracing Dataset Usage in Political Science.

  I4R Replication Reports

  • Reproduction and Robustness of Kao et al.(2024): “Female Representation and Legitimacy”. A Report from the 2024 UC Berkeley Replication Games. (With Edmund Kelly, Angela Odermatt, and Albert Ward).
  • Why Do Citizens Tolerate Undemocratic Behaviour? A Comment on Frederiksen (2022). (With Matthew Hepplewhite and Scott Moser).
  • A Robustness Reproduction of Tappin, Berinsky and Rand (2023): “Partisans' Receptivity to Persuasive Messaging is Undiminished by Countervailing Party Leader Cues”. (with Edmund Kelly).

Other Publications

• Dataset: Building a Comprehensive Database on Conflict: Ethiopia, 1997–2017.
• BITSS Blog Post: Ensuring Reproducibility in Large Research Teams (2022).

Works in Progress

• Rethinking Public Goods Provision: Functional Specialization and Security in Displacement Settings (with Pilar Sanchez-Bellosta).
• Security Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Conflict: Evidence from IDP Camps in Nigeria (with Pilar Sanchez-Bellosta).
• The Historical Persistence of Colonial Security: Evidence from Namibia.
• Public Preferences for Security Provision in South Africa.

Papers I’ve RA’d for

• J. Andres Gannon, Erik Gartzke, Jon R Lindsay, and Peter Schram. The Shadow of Deterrence: Why Capable Actors Engage in Contests Short of War. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 68(2-3):230–268, apr 2024.
• J. Andres Gannon. Planes, Trains, and Armored Mobiles: Introducing a Dataset of the Global Distribution of Military Capabilities. International Studies Quarterly, 67(4), sep 2023.
• Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, and Sandip Sukhtankar. General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence From India. Econometrica, 91(4):1261–1295, jul 2023.
• Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, and Sandip Sukhtankar. Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India. The Review of Economics and Statistics, feb 2023.
• Stefan Faridani and Paul Niehaus. Rate-optimal linear estimation of average global effects. 2022.
• J. Andres Gannon. One if by Land, and Two if by Sea: Cross-Domain Contests and the Escalation of International Crises. International Studies Quarterly, 66(4):474–475, sep 2022.
• Nikhar Gaikwad and Gareth Nellis. Overcoming the Political Exclusion of Migrants: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India. American Political Science Review, 115:1–18, 2021.