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Oguzhan Turkoglu, Darin Christensen, Micael Canavan (2026). Soldiers' Funerals Increase Nationalism: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Turkey. Accepted, Political Science Research and Methods.

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Darin Christensen, Graeme Blair, Michael Gibilisco (2026). The Point of Attack: Where and Why Does Oil Cause Armed Conflict in Africa?. Journal of Politics.

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Darin Christensen, Tamma Carleton, Esther Rolf, Cullen Molitor, Shopnavo Biswas, Karena Yan, Graeme Blair (2026). Estimating the Footprint of Artisanal Mining in Africa. NBER Working Paper.

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Ana De La O, Donald Green, Peter John, Darin Christensen, 21 others (2026). Barriers to Formalization: Evidence from Six Randomized Experiments on Transaction Costs, Public Services, and Taxation in the Global South. Working Paper.

Darin Christensen, Alexandra Hartman, Cyrus Samii, Alessandro Toppeta (2025). Interest-based Negotiation over Natural Resources: Experimental Evidence from Liberia. Journal of the European Economic Association.

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Darin Christensen, Allison Grossman, Guy Grossman, Jon Kurtz, Jeremy Weinstein, Jessical Wolff (2025). Ethical Oversight in Impact Evaluations: External Advisory Committees to Assess Programming Risks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Darin Christensen, Francisco Garfias (2025). Political Economy. In Andrew Rudalevige and Joshua Tucker, A Political Science Experiment. CritReview.

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Darin Christensen, Michael Gibilisco (2024). How Budgets Shape Power Sharing in Autocracies. Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

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Darin Christensen, Graeme Blair, Valerie Wirtschafter (2022). How Does Armed Conflict Shape Investment? Evidence from the Mining Sector. Journal of Politics.

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

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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.

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

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Darin Christensen, Alexandra Hartman, Cyrus Samii (2021). Legibility and External Investment: An Institutional Natural Experiment in Liberia. International Organization.

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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.

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

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Darin Christensen, Simon Ejdemyr (2020). Do Elections Improve Constituency Responsiveness? Evidence from U.S. Cities. Political Science Research and Methods.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Darin Christensen, Erik Wibbels (2014). Labor Standards, Labor Endowments, and the Evolution of Inequality. International Studies Quarterly.

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

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