Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
"The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of google searches" (with Manuel Ramos-Maqueda, Nausheen Khan, and Arndt Reichert). 2023. Nature Scientific Reports "The cash crop revolution, colonialism and economic reorganization in Africa" (with Philip Roessler, Yannick Pengl, Kyle Sorlie Titlow, and Nicolas Van de Walle). 2022. World Development "Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning" (with Sveta Milusheva, Guadalupe Bedoya, Sarah Williams, Elizabeth Resor, and Arianna Legovini). 2021. PLOS ONE "Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century" (with Robert Blair and Philip Roessler). 2021. British Journal of Political Science "Assessing the causal impact of Chinese aid on vegetative land cover in Burundi and Rwanda under conditions of spatial imprecision" (with Seth Goodman, Michael LeFew, Carrie Dolan, Ariel BenYishay, and Daniel Runfola). 2019. Development Engineering"Financial inclusion and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) growth in Uganda" (with Corti Paul Lakuma and Fred Muhumuza). 2019. Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
"The impact of aid on health outcomes in Uganda" (with Tonny Odokonyero, Tony Muhumuza, Alex T. Ijjo, and Godfrey Owot Moses). 2018. Health Economics "A Top-Down Approach to Estimating Spatially Heterogeneous Impacts of Development Aid on Vegetative Carbon Sequestration" (with Daniel Runfola, Ariel BenYishay, Jeffery Tanner, Graeme Buchanan, Jyoteshwar Nagol, Matthias Leu, Seth Goodman, and Rachel Trichler). 2017. Sustainability
"Taking the health aid debate to the subnational level: the impact and allocation of foreign health aid in Malawi" (with Carrie B. Dolan, Matthias Leu, and Daniel Runfola). 2017. BMJ Global Health
"Survival Analysis of Regional Unemployment in Uganda: Evidence from the Uganda National Panel Survey (UNPS)" (with Corti Paul Lakuma and Annette Kuteesa). 2016. African Development Review
"Developing Conceptual and Methodological Foundations in Community Engagement" (with David P. Aday Jr., Joanna K. Weeks, Christiana E. Sherman, and Rebecca L. Silverstein). 2015. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship
Working Papers
"The Unintended Consequences of Curfews on Road Safety" (with Guadalupe Bedoya, Amy Dolinger, Caitlin Dolkart, Arianna Legovini, and Sveta Milusheva). 2023. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper"The Impact of Ethiopia’s Road Investment Program on Economic Development and Land Use: Evidence from Satellite Data" (with Simon Alder, Kevin Croke, Alice Duhaut, and Ariana Vaisey). 2022. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
"geoSIMEX: A Generalized Approach To Modeling Spatial Imprecision" (with Daniel Runfola, Seth Goodman, Michael Lefew, and Ariel BenYishay). 2017. AidData Working Paper