2026
African Success Stories
Annual Review of Economics 18:447–471
Replication materials are not posted yet.
Data
Replication materials
Data and code for each published article. The replication archive holds the full package with its README; the Data and Code links open just those files in the archive.
Seeing like a Citizen: Experimental Evidence on How Empowerment Affects Engagement with the State
Forthcoming, American Journal of Political Science
2026
Missionary Competition, Education, and Long-run Political Development: Evidence Across Regime Types in Africa
Comparative Political Studies 59(9):1896–1931
2026
Urbanization and Decentralization in the Congo: Examining Governance in Rural Towns
World Development 199:107219
Replication materials are not posted yet.
2025
Monopoly of Taxation Without a Monopoly of Violence: The Weak State’s Trade-Offs From Taxation
Review of Economic Studies 92(1):1126–1156
Data and code are in a single replication package on Zenodo.
2024
The Local Memory of Repression and Who Fights
World Politics 76(2):219–258
2023
Complements or Substitutes? How Institutional Arrangements Bind Chiefs and the State in Africa
American Political Science Review 117(3):871–890
The administrative headquarters data collected for this paper are also available below.
2023
Africa’s Latent Assets
Journal of African Economies 32(Supplement 1):i9–i32
Replication materials are not posted yet.
Administrative headquarters
Below you can find the location of administrative headquarters in various African countries. I collected this data for my paper Complements or Substitutes? How Institutional Arrangements Bind Chiefs and the State in Africa (American Political Science Review, 2023). Please cite this paper if you use the data.
A table summarizing the changes over time can be found here. Lastly, this table explains for each country what sources were used and other things to note.
- Benin
- Department 2017 Commune 2017
- Burkina Faso
- Province 2017 Department 2017
- Burundi
- Province 2017 Commune 2017
- Cameroon
- Department 2017 Commune 2017
- Chad
- Region 2002 Region 2008 Region 2012 Department 2002 Department 2008 Department 2012 Department 2017
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Region 2017 District 2017 Department 2017 Sub-Prefecture 2017
- Liberia
- County 2017
- Madagascar
- Region 2017 Department 2000 Department 2010
- Malawi
- Region 2017 District 2017
- Mali
- Cercle 2017 Commune 2017
- Mauritania
- Region 2002 Department 2002
- Mozambique
- Province 2017 District 2002 District 2013
- Nigeria
- State 2017 LGA 2017
- Sierra Leone
- Province 2017 District 2017
- South Africa
- District 2017 LC 2017
- Tanzania
- Region 2002 Region 2012 District 2002 District 2012
- Zimbabwe
- Province 2017 District 2017