Writing

Book Reviews

Book Review Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman; Faith & Economics, forthcoming, 2022.

Book Review Shrewd Samaritan: Faith, Economics, and the Road to Loving Our Global Neighbor by Bruce Wydick; Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy: A Journal of the Accord Network, Winter 2020, pp. 33-34.

Book Review Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro; Faith & Economics, Issue 71, 2018.

Book Review Experimental Conversations: Perspectives on Randomized Trials in Development Economics (ed.) Timothy Ogden; (with Marc F. Bellemare) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 100, Issue 2, pp. 642–64, 2018.

Book Review Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science by Dani Rodrik; Faith & Economics, Fall 2016, Issue No. 68, pp. 121-126.

Book Review Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler; Faith & Economics, Fall 2015; Issue No. 66, pp.169-174.

Guest Blog-Posts

Mobile Banking in Bangladesh: An Opportunity with Constraints? (with Khandker Wahedur Rahman); BRAC Institute for Governance and Development, February 28, 2023.

Can innovations in logistics and financial services benefit actors throughout agricultural value chains?; (with Kate Ambler, Alan de Brauw, and Eduardo Maruyama); International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), December 30, 2022.

Being Light: Navigating the Blogosphere for Faith-Based Development Professionals; Christian Relief, Development, and Advocacy: A Journal of the Accord Network, Summer 2021, pp. 15-17.

Does covid-19 raise the risk of violent conflict? Not everywhere.; (with Colette Salemi); Monkey Cage Blog, Washington Post, October 15, 2020.

Faithful Economics in an Imperfect World; Pilgrimage Day 6, Anselem House, University of Minnesota, 2020.

The Unintended Consequences of Regulating “Conflict Minerals” in Africa’s Great Lakes Region; Development Impact Blog – Job Market Paper Series, The World Bank Group, 2019.

What Happened to the 1890 Complete Count Data?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2019.

Why Good Policy Requires Responsible Communication and Consumption of Research; (with Katie Thompson); Shared Justice, an initiative of the Center for Public Justice, 2019.

The faiV: Week of July 23, 2018; Financial Access Initiative, New York University, 2018.

IPUMS FAQs: Where are the data quality flags for income variables?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2018.

IPUMS FAQs: Why isn’t the large U.S. city I’m interested in analyzing identifiable in the data?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2018.

IPUMS FAQs: Why don’t my calculations perfectly match official statistics?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2018.

IPUMS FAQs: How can I merge my IPUMS CPS file with a NBER CPS file?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2017.

IPUMS FAQs: How do I link basic monthly samples to the ASEC sample?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2017.

IPUMS FAQs: Why is the 2014 sample twice as large as the total population?; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2017.

IPUMS FAQs: Sample Weights; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2017.

IPUMS FAQs: Missing U.S. Counties; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2017.

Amid Uncertainty for Federal Statistics Collection, Daily Use Increases; Use It For Good, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 2017.

Policymakers Don’t Learn Much from Impact Evaluations (and what can be done about it); Learning Lab, An initiative of the United States Agency for International Development, 2017.

The Carrier Deal and Questions of Economic Injustice; Shared Justice, an initiative of the Center for Public Justice, 2016.

The Real-Life Psychological Impacts of Poverty Traps; AgriLinks, An initiative of the United States Agency for International Development, 2016.

The Economics that Really Matters: Hope for Rural Smallholder Farmers; Global Food For Thought, The Global Food and Agriculture Program at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, 2016.

To End Global Poverty We Need More Evidence, Not Less Aid: A Review of ‘Poverty, Inc.”; (blog republish) Shared Justice, an initiative of the Center for Public Justice, 2016.

Unjust Lending: One Church Takes Note and Inspires Change in City; (with Lauren Walker); Shared Justice, an initiative of the Center for Public Justice, 2015.

Measuring hope: Lessons from Rural Myanmar; Economics That Really Matters, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2015.

The Hidden Cost of the Winter Olympics; RELEVANT Magazine, 2014.

13 Lessons 2013 Taught Us about Enacting Change; RELEVANT and Reject Apathy Magazine, 2013.

Conference Round-Ups

The Economics of Violence, Conflict, and Crime in Developing Countries | MidDev 2019 Recap; Economics that Really Matters, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2019.

The Causes and Consequences of Conflict and Violence | CSAE Recap; (with Heidi Kaila); Economics that Really Matters, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2019.

MIEDC 2018: Recap (1) Agriculture and Finance, (2) Education and Health, (3) Poverty, Labor, Politics, and Methods; (with Khandker Wahedur Rahman and Harshada Karnik); Economics That Really Matters, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2018.

MIEDC 2016: Recap; (with Leah Bevis and Linden McBride); Economics That Really Matters, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2016