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As of July 2012, I will be an Assistant Professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh (on leave) and a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. for 2012-2013. I received my Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in May 2012.

My CV is available here.

My current research is on how different sources of government revenue (such as natural resource rents, foreign aid, and domestic taxation) shape government-citizen relations. I also have ongoing projects on how information and transparency affect accountability, as well as on the determinants of conflict and post-conflict reintegration. Empirically, I focus primarily on identifying causal relationships at the micro-level. I use experiments, original survey and behavioral data, and extensive field research in my work.