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According to Wikipedia , Leonard Wantchekon is a Beninese economist and professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and an affiliate of the Economics Department at Princeton University. He taught at Yale University and New York University . He is the founding director of the African School of Economics, which is based in Benin. His study with Nathan Nunn on the impact of slave trading on modern-day trust is among the most-cited studies in economics.
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2000 2010 2020 0 125 250 375 500 625 750 875 1000 1125 1250 1375 1500 Published Works The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa (2009) Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin (2003) Resource Wealth and Political Regimes in Africa (2004) Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice, and Party Identification (2014) Clientelism and vote buying: lessons from field experiments in African elections (2009) Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin (2015) Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism? Experimental Evidence from Benin (2013) Why do Resource Abundant Countries Have Authoritarian Governments (2002) (181)Electoral Competition Under the Threat of Political Unrest (1999) Why do Resource Dependent Countries Have Authoritarian Governments ? ¤ (1999) (152)Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes (2011) A Theory of Post-Civil War Democratization (2002) New Advances in Experimental Research on Corruption (2012) The “Game” of Torture (1999) Can information improve rural governance and service delivery? (2020) Do electoral handouts affect voting behavior? (2018) Information Dissemination and Local Governments' Electoral Returns, Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mexico (2011) (43)On the Nature of First Democratic Elections (1999) POLITICAL DUTCH DISEASE (2002) (40)Dictatorships as a Political Dutch Disease (1999) (37)Corruption and Ideology in Autocracies (2015) Critical junctures : independence movements and democracy in Africa (2013) (37)Public Investment in Rural Infrastructure: Some Political Economy Considerations (2013) Strategic Voting in Conditions of Political Instability (1999) Africa: Dictatorial and Democratic Electoral Systems since 1946 (2004) Working Paper No. 120 URBAN-RURAL DIFFERENCES IN SUPPORT FOR INCUMBENTS ACROSS AFRICA (2010) (30)VOTE-BUYING AND POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: ESTIMATING AND EXPLAINING VOTE-BUYING'S EFFECT ON TURNOUT IN KENYA (2009) (29)Theory, External Validity, and Experimental Inference: Some Conjectures (2010) Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa (2009) (23)The Political Economy of Human Development (2010) (22)Credible Power-Sharing Agreements: Theory with Evidence from South Africa and Lebanon (2000) EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON CORRUPTION : INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW (2012) (18)Expert Information, Public Deliberation, and Electoral Support for Good Governance: Experimental Evidence from Benin (2008) (16)Chapter 7 Experiments on Clientelism and Vote-Buying (2012) Mobile technology and food access (2019) THE CURSE OF GOOD SOIL ? LAND FERTILITY , ROADS , AND RURAL POVERTY IN AFRICA ⇤ (2015) (14)Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from an Election in the Philippines (2020) Help Me Help You: Conducting Field Experiments with Political Elites (2010) Corruption in Autocracies (2012) Working Paper No. 113 RELIGIOUS FAITH AND DEMOCRACY: EVIDENCE FROM THE AFROBAROMETER SURVEYS (2009) (12)Clientelism and Voting Behavior : A Field Experiment in Benin ∗ (2002) (12)Political rights versus public goods: Uncovering the determinants of satisfaction with democracy in Africa (2006) (12)Chapter 1 Experimental Research on Corruption: Introduction and Overview (2012) Echoes of Colonial Repression: The Long-Term Effects of the 1947 Revolt upon Political Attitudes in Madagascar (2011) (11)Federalism and Economic Reform: Transfer Dependence and Regional Disparities in Nigerian Federalism (2006) Transfer Dependence and Regional Disparities : the Case of Nigeria 1 (2015) (9)Education and Human Capital Externalities (2015) (7)Methodology Update: Randomised Controlled Trials, Structural Models and the Study of Politics† (2011) How Does Policy Deliberation Aect Voting Behavior? Evidence from a Campaign Experiment in Benin (2012) (7)Clientelism and Vote Buying: Lessons from Field Experiments in West Africa * (2008) (7)Randomized Evaluation of Institutions: Theory with Applications to Voting and Deliberation Experiments (2009) (6)Crime in New Democracies ∗ (2002) (6)DOES ETHNIC SOLIDARITY FACILITATE ELECTORAL SUPPORT FOR NATION-BUIDLING POLICIES? EVIDENCE FROM A POLITICAL EXPERIMENT (2007) (5)Policy deliberation and voter persuasion: estimating intrinsic causal effects of town hall meetings (2017) Is Language Destiny? The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016) Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa (2021) Democracy as an Arbitration Mechanism (2000) (3)The COVID-19 pandemic: a letter to G20 leaders (2020) (3)Are voters too afraid to tackle corruption? Survey and experimental evidence from Mexico (2021) Deliberative Electoral Strategies and Transition From Clientelism: Experimental Evidence from Benin (2011) (3)The Institutional Legacy of African Independence Movements (2011) (3)Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business (2022) Deliberative Electoral Campaigns and Transition from Clientelism : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin ∗ (2011) (2)Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science: Experimental Research on Democracy and Development (2011) Experiments on Clientelism and Vote Buying (2019) (2)A Graphical Approximation to Generalization: Definitions and Diagrams (2015) Clientelism in Decentralized States (2019) Ethnicity, Gender, and the Demand for Redistribution: Experimental Evidence from Benin (2003) (1)Communicating and Investing in Policy Expertise: A Case for Primaries (2014) (1)Policy Deliberation and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Campaign Experiment in Benin ⇤ (2013) (1)Salvador Strategic Voting in Conditions of Political Instability : The 1994 Elections in El (1999) (1)Political Uncertainty, Market Structure and the Forms of State Capture (2020) Knowledge, Political Participation and Good Governance: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Uganda (2009) (1)Electoral Intermediaries (2020) The Political Economy of Patrons, Brokers, and Voters (2018) (1)DEMOCRACY AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT (2011) (1)UNDERGROUND INSURGENCY AND DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION ∗ (2009) (1)Clientelism: Concepts, Agents, and Solutions (2017) (1)COVID-19 Learning Losses, Parental Investments, and Recovery: Evidence from Low-Cost Private Schools in Nigeria (2022) Ethnicity, Gender and the Demand for Public Goods: Experimental Evidence from Benin (2004) (0)WIDER Working Paper 2021/129-Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (2021) (0)Does Policy Deliberation Affect Voting Behavior? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin (2012) (0)Africa Project Workshop Leader Reports (2008) 2019 APSA Council and Officer Nominees (2019) Motivating Bureaucrats: Group incentives and Organizational Performance in Local Governments (2018) (0)Information Dissemination Campaign and Voters' Behavior in the 2009 Municipal Elections in Mexico (2023) (0)Political Uncertainty and the Forms of State Capture (2022) The Strength of Weak Ties: Indirect Exposure to Colonial Education and Intergenerational Mobility in Benin (2019) (0)Introducing risk management tools to a large-scale agricultural development programme in Senegal (2020) Working Paper No. 134 SOURCES OF STATE LEGITIMACY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA: A THEORY OF POLITICAL GOODS (2011) (0)NONCOMPLIANCE BIAS CORRECTION BASED ON COVARIATES IN RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENTS (2005) (0)Education and Long Term Social Mobility in Benin ∗ (2016) (0)Was Meritocracy Inspired by a Nativist Backlash Against Immigration? Migration and the Civil Service During the US 'Age of Reform' (2016) (0)The Impact of Deliberative Political Campaigns on Voter Behavior in the Philippines (2022) (0)Impacts of Political Breaks on Education Policies, Access and Quality in Nigeria (1970 – 2003) (2023) Democracy after Civil War : A Kantian Paradox ∗ (2002) (0)Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa (2021) Deliberative Campaigns and Election Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment∗ (2011) (0)Political Economy and the Causes of War (2016) (0)Power-sharing Agreements as Political Risk-sharing Contracts (2002) (0)Evaluation of the Effects of Introducing Risk Management Tools in Agricultural Development: The Case of PADAER Senegal (2023) Quality Peace in Post-Civil War Settings : The role of local institutions (2018) Liberal democracy as the result of an "aborted" communist revolution (2006) (0)Working Paper No. 131 THE “BORN FREES”: THE PROSPECTS FOR GENERATIONAL CHANGE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA (2011) (0)ONLINE APPENDIX FOR "CRITICAL JUNCTURES :I NDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA" (2014) (0)Working Paper No. 132 SEPARATE AND SUSPICIOUS: LOCAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT AND ETHNIC TOLERANCE IN KENYA by Kimuli Kasara (2011) (0)A Theory of Post-Civil War Democratization Leonard Wantchekon and Zvika Neeman (2002) (0)More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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