Publications

“Nationalism and Social Sanctioning Across Ethnic Lines: Experimental Evidence from the Kenya–Tanzania Border” (with Tim Johnson and Amanda Robinson) Journal of Experimental Political Science 4 (2017), pgs. 1-20 [Paper]
“Exploring Opportunities in Cultural Diversity” (with David Laitin) SAGE Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2015), pgs. 1-17 [Paper]
“A Mobile Water Project: Mobile-for-Development Meets Human-Centered Design” (with Eran Bendavid, Joshua Cohen, Katherine Hoffmann, and Terry Winograd), in Arguing About Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs (Belgium: Presses universitaires de Louvain, 2011), pgs. 245-252 [Paper] [Slides] [Project Website]
“The Authority of Supreme Court Precedents” (with James H. Fowler), Social Networks 30 (January 2008), pgs. 16-30 [Paper] [Replication Data]
“Network Analysis and the Law: Measuring the Legal Importance of Supreme Court Precedents” (with James H. Fowler, James F. Spriggs II, Timothy R. Johnson, and Paul Wahlbeck), Political Analysis 15:3 (July 2007), pgs. 324-346 [Paper]

Working Papers

“Real-Time Conflict Forecasting" (2015)
“An Experimental Study of Diversity Management Techniques” (2015) [Paper] [Appendix] [Replication Data] [Slides]
“Interethnic Complementarities and Decentralized Intergroup Cooperation” (2014) [Paper] [Appendix] [Replication Data]
“Measuring Interethnic Complementarities Using Satellite Imagery” (2014)

Building Peace and Security Using Real-Time Predictive Analytics [Blog]
Can Mobile Phones Improve Clean Water Access in Developing Country Slums? (with Eran Bendavid, Joshua Cohen, and Terry Winograd) [Slides] [M-Maji Project Website]

Above: Coverage of the M-Maji launch in Kibera, Kenya. Courtesy: Kibera News Network

Photo Credit: Sangick Jeon (map from field work in Kibera -- one of Africa's largest slums)