Oeindrila Dube

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Working Papers

• “Building Resilient Health Systems: Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone and the 2014 Ebola Outbreak” (with Darin Christensen, Johannes Haushofer, Bilal Siddiqi and Maarten Voors) – Under Revision, Quarterly Journal of Economics 
  • Read my New York Times Economic View piece with Katherine Baicker
  • Listen to the VoxEU podcast
  • Read the IPA Policy Brief and Blog Post
  • Other press Coverage: NPR, CBS Chicago

• “The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Indonesia and Colombia” (with Samuel Bazzi, Robert Blair, Christopher Blattman, Matthew Gudgeon, and Richard Peck) – Under revision, Review of Economics and Statistics

• Reform Fatigue  (with T. Renee Bowen, Jackie Chan and Nicolas Lambert)

Published and Accepted Papers

• “Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response,” (with Van Bavel, Jan,  Katherine Baicker et al.) Nature Human Behavior, April 2020

• “Community-based Crisis Response: Evidence from Sierra Leone’s 2014 Ebola Outbreak“, Forthcoming, American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 

• “Queens” (with S.P. Harish), forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy
  • Data Appendix
  • Press coverage: The Times London, The Economist, The Atlantic, NY Times mention, NY Mag, Marginal Revolution, Chris Blattman’s blog, PS Mag, Vox, The Australian, Live Mint, GovExec.com, Ancient Origins, Semana, Nczas
  • See the Econominate video; listen to the Roots of Conflict Podcast 

• “Do Natural Resources Influence Who Comes to Power, and How?”   (with Maria Carreri) – 2017, Journal of Politics 
• “Reconciling after civil conflict increases social capital but decreases individual wellbeing” (with Jacobus Cilliers and Bilal Siddiqi) – 2016. Science
  • Replication Data
  • NPR Hidden Brain Podcast  and Washington Post-Monkey Cage article by Rachel Glennerster
  • Also featured in: Voice of America, Le Monde, Science Daily,  The Daily Mail, Pacific Standard, El Espectador, Público, Ecodiario, Diariomedico,  EDA, Sinc, Infosalus
  • See the IPA policy brief
• “From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector”  (with Omar Garcia-Ponce and Kevin Thom) – 2016. Journal of the European Economic Association 
  • Online Appendix
• “The White-Man Effect: How Foreigner Presence Affects Behavior in Experiments”  (with Jacobus Cilliers and Bilal Siddiqi).  2015.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
  • Online Appendix
  •  Press coverage: NY Mag, Quartz, Debraj Ray’s blog post
• “Bases, Bullets and Ballots: the Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia” (with Suresh Naidu).  2015. Journal of Politics
  • Online Appendix
  • Replication Package
  • Press coverage: Slate article, El Espectador article, Center for Global Development podcast interview; an Exchange with Andrew Gelman is here
• “Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia.”  (with Juan Vargas). 2013.        Review of Economic Studies 
  • Online Appendix 
  • Replication Package
  • Press:  Slate article
• “Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico.”  (with Arindrajit Dube and Omar Garcia Ponce). 2013. American Political Science Review (lead article) 
  • Online Appendix
  • Replication Package
  • Press coverage:
    • TIME article, NPR interview, Slate post, The New Republic, The Washington Post
    • Monkey Cage posts here and here

Selected Research in Progress

• “Predicting Police Police Productivity to Strengthen Community-Policing Relations” (with Jens Ludwig and Greg Stoddard)
• “Labor Market Opportunities and Violent Crime: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria” (with Ben Crost, Marcus Holmlund and Eric Mvukiyehe)