Publications

Darin Christensen, Graeme Blair, Michael Gibilisco (2022). The Point of Attack: Where and Why Does Oil Cause Armed Conflict in Africa?. Working Paper.

Darin Christensen, Michael Gibilisco (2022). How Budgets Shape Power Sharing in Autocracies. Accepted, Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

Darin Christensen, Alexandra Hartman, Cyrus Samii, Alessandro Toppeta (2022). Interest-based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia. Working Paper.

Ana De La O, Donald Green, Peter John, Darin Christensen, 21 others (2021). Fiscal Contracts?: A Six-country Randomized Experiment on Transaction Costs, Public Services, and Taxation in Developing Countries. Working Paper.

Tara Slough, Daniel Rubenson, Ro'ee Levy, Darin Christensen, 15 others (2021). Adoption of Community Monitoring Improves Common Pool Resource Management Across Contexts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Darin Christensen, Alexandra Hartman, Cyrus Samii (2021). Citizen Monitoring Promotes Informed and Inclusive Forest Governance in Liberia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Darin Christensen, Francisco Garfias (2021). The Politics of Property Taxation: Fiscal Infrastructure and Electoral Incentives in Brazil. Journal of Politics.

Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi, Maarten Voors (2021). Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak. Quarterly Journal of Economics.

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Darin Christensen, Graeme Blair, Aaron Rudkin (2021). Do Commodity Price Shocks Cause Armed Conflict? A Meta-Analysis of Natural Experiments. American Political Science Review.

Darin Christensen, Alexandra Hartman, Cyrus Samii (2020). Legibility and External Investment: An Institutional Natural Experiment in Liberia. International Organization.

Darin Christensen, Graeme Blair, Valerie Wirtschafter (2020). How Does Armed Conflict Shape Investment? Evidence from the Mining Sector. Accepted, Journal of Politics.

Darin Christensen, Oeindrila Dube, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi, Maarten Voors (2020). Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone's Ebola Outbreak. AEA Papers and Proceedings.

Darin Christensen (2019). Concession Stands: How Mining Investments Incite Protest in Africa. International Organization.

Darin Christensen, Mai Nguyen, Renard Sexton (2019). Strategic Violence during Democratization: Evidence from Myanmar. World Politics.

Darin Christensen, David D Laitin (2019). African States Since Independence: Order, Development & Democracy. Yale University Press.

Darin Christensen, Francisco Garfias (2018). Can You Hear Me Now? How Communication Technology Affects Protest and Repression. Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

Darin Christensen (2018). The Geography of Repression in Africa. Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Darin Christensen, David Hausman (2016). Measuring the Economic Effect of Alien Tort Statute Liability. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization.

Darin Christensen, Simon Ejdemyr (2016). Do Elections Improve Constituency Responsiveness? Evidence from U.S. Cities. Political Science Research and Methods.

Darin Christensen, Jeremy Weinstein (2013). Defunding Dissent: Restrictions on Aid to NGOs. Journal of Democracy.

Darin Christensen, Erik Wibbels (2013). Labor Standards, Labor Endowments, and the Evolution of Inequality. International Studies Quarterly.