WORKING PAPERS
Ethnic Identity and Indigenous Children’s Self-esteem in Oaxaca, Mexico (joint with Coraima Itzel Hernández Hernández), 2023. AEA RCT Registry
Do unequal attitudes to different ethnic groups in a society lead to any effects already at an early age? We investigate an impact of ethnic identity on self-esteem among children in three indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mobile Technologies and Firm Formalization: Evidence from Uganda (joint with Krisztina Kis-Katos, Anna Kochanova, Olivia Wirth), WIDER Working paper 2023/99.
Mobile technologies generate a broad range of economic benefits, but whether they affect the state’s capacity to collect taxes remains unclear. Using a staggered expansion of the 3G and 4G mobile networks and administrative tax data in Uganda we assess how these technologies affect firm formalization and corporate and value added tax payments in a low-income country.
The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children’s Nutrition and Education (joint with Michelle Escobar and Michael Grimm), CESifo Working Paper No. 10505.
We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children’s nutrition and education. We find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children’s stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and attendance.
Natural Disasters and Creative Destruction:
Evidence from Indonesian Firms (joint with Krisztina Kis-Katos and Anna Kochanova).
This paper assesses the impact of earthquakes on firm performance in Indonesia. In particular, relying on yearly balance sheet data from a census of manufacturing medium- to large-scale firms over 16 years, we show the presence of “creative destruction” in the aftermath of earthquakes, leading to market exit of the least productive firms, as well as improving firm productivity among the remaining firms.
Development Aid in Times of Conflict:
A Case Study of Iraq (joint with Sara Daub).
We investigate how development projects financed by different donors influence conflict intensity and onset in Iraq in 2000-2013. Further, we point out and test the heterogeneity of the effects across sectors.
Foreign aid and conflict: Evidence from Colombia (joint with Paula Stephannia Madrigal Santofimio).
We find that an increase in international assistance reduces conflict associated with war actions, forced disappearances, targeted assassinations, and especially sexual violence. While testing the mechanisms, we show the opportunity cost mechanism at work, highlighting increasing labor wages, and decreasing labor supply for the insurgency.
Floods, Turnout and Green Party Preferences: Evidence from Germany (joint with Mirjam Fitzthum).
This paper examines the impact of flooding on voter turnout and party preferences in Germany, with a particular focus on the most popular green party in Germany – Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. Using data from federal and state elections between 1994 and 2021 and individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP),we investigate the short-term and long-term political effects of 37 flood events.
PUBLICATIONS
Public Work Programmes and Cooperation for the Common Good: Evidence from Malawi // European Journal of Development Research, 2022, 34: 1264-1384. (joint with Stefan Beierl)
Incumbents’ Performance and Political Extremism // Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 201, 104473. (joint with Galina Zudenkova).
Regime Security and Taxation in Autocracies: Who is Taxed and How? // European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 67, 101998. (joint with Viola Lucas)
Social Transfers and Conditionalities under Different Regime Types // European Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 50C: 140-155. (joint with Anna Giolbas and Jann Lay)
Constrained Firms, not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises // Labour Economics, 2015, 33: 94-110. (joint with Jann Lay, Michael Grimm and Kirstin Goebel)
Gift Exchange in the Workplace // Human Resource Management Review, 2009, 19 (1): 23-38. (joint with Maria Yudkevich)
BOOK CHAPTERS
International Donors and Social Policy Diffusion in the Global South in Schmitt, C., ed., Social Protection in the Global South: Understanding the Role of External Actors, 2019, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 189-220.
DATA
Non-Contributory Social Transfer Programmes in Developing Countries: A New Data Set and Research Agenda // Data in Brief, 2018, 16: 51-64. (joint with Anna Giolbas and Jann Lay). Previous version: GIGA Working Paper #290. Download the NSTP dataset here.
POLICY PAPERS
Targeting in Fragile Contexts, Operational Note #2. Guidance Package on Social Protection across the Humanitarian-Development Nexus. Methodological and Knowledge Sharing Support (MKS), European Commission, 2019.
The Politics of Pro-poor Policies, NOPOOR Policy Brief NR.7, 2016. (joint with Anna Giolbas and Jann Lay)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS OR WORKING PAPERS
Regime Type, Inequality and Redistributive Transfers in Developing Countries (joint with Anna Giolbas), Hamburg: GIGA Working Paper #273. UNU-WIDER Working paper 2017/30.
Informal Governance Mechanisms in Public Administrations, 2008. (in Russian)
Gift Exchange Relations in Public Administrations // Economic Journal of the Higher School of Economics, Vol. 3, 2007, pp. 337-363 (with Maria Yudkevich) (in Russian).
Dodlova, M., Kiselgof S., Menyashev R., Sorokin K., Khmelnitskaya E., Chernina E. (2013), Designing Public Transportation Tariff Scale by Modeling Demand (The Case of Moscow Region Commuter Railway) // Economic Issues, 6: 100-119. (in Russian)
Sustaining Efficient Bureaucracies: What Does Gift Exchange Theory Say? SIDE Working papers, Italian Economic Society.
Administrative Procedures as a Way to Mitigate the Moral Hazard Problem in Public Administrations, // Materials for the Summer School on Institutional Economics – Moscow: Publishing House of the State University – Higher School of Economics, p. 23-44, 2007 (with Anna Balsevich and Elena Podkolzina) (in Russian)
Various Reasons for Opportunistic Behavior in Hierarchies. Working paper WP10/2006/07. Moscow: State University – Higher School of Economics, 2006 (with Anna Balsevich and Elena Podkolzina) (in Russian)
Forecasting Price Indices Using Combining Methods and Switching Regression Models // Materials for the 4th Annual Moscow Postgraduate Conference “Business English in the Business World”, 2005.
Influence of the Rate of Exchange Dynamics on Production in Russia in 1993-2001 // Modernizing the Russian Economy: Social Context: in 4 volumes. Ed. E. Yasin. Vol. 4. – Moscow: Publishing House of the State University – Higher School of Economics, pp. 72-83, 2004. (in Russian)