Peer-reviewed publications
J. Rexer. 2022. "The brides of Boko Haram: Economic shocks, marriage practices, and insurgency in Nigeria." The Economic Journal 132 (645) 1927-1977.
Selected for special issue on the Economics of Conflict
Grossman, G., S. Kim, J. Rexer and H. Thirumurthy. 2020. "Political partisanship influences behavioral responses to governors' recommendations for COVID-19 prevention in the United States." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (39) 24144-24153Op-Ed in USA Today
Working papers
The local advantage: Corruption, organized crime, and indigenization in the Nigerian oil sector (Job Market Paper) Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Review
Presented at: World Bank (2021), NBER Summer Institute Political Economy (2021), Barcelona GSE (2021), GLaD (2021), MWIEDC (2021), WGAPE (2021), GSIPE (2021), NBER Development (2020), PACDEV (2020), NEWEPS (2020), YES (2020), AfDB Seminar (2020), CSAE (2020)
World Bank Development Impact, Penn Kleinman Center Insights, CEPR/PEDL Working Paper
Violence and black markets: Evidence from the Niger Delta conflict (with Even Hvinden)
Presented at: Hebrew University (2022), PACDEV (2021), ESOC annual meeting (2021), Max Planck Institute (2021), DEVPEC (2020), BI Norwegian Business School (2019), Penn Development Research Initiative workshop (2019)
Penn Kleinman Center Policy Brief, CEPR/PEDL Working Paper
Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform (with Santosh Anagol and Fernando Ferreira) Under Review
Presented at: Atlanta Federal Reserve (2021), NBER Summer Institute Real Estate/Urban (2021), Wharton Urban lunch, EUEA (2021), Imperial College (2021), LACEA-LAMES (2021)
Penalties and Premiums in Sovereign Credit Ratings (with Ethan B. Kapstein, Adityamohan Tantravahi, and Fangyuan Yi) Under Review
Presented at: Princeton Development Finance Workshop (2023, scheduled)
Pricing Conflict Risk: Evidence from Sovereign Bonds (with Ethan B. Kapstein, and Andrés Rivera)
Presented at: ESOC Lab (2022), WEFIDEV (2022), CESifo Political Economy (2022), Royal Economic Society (2023, scheduled), LatAm Peace Science Conference (2023, scheduled), DebtCon Princeton (2023, scheduled)
Works in progress
The Fuel Subsidy Paradox (with Adi Tantravahi)
Draft in progress
Mining, violence, and electoral competition in Myanmar (with Even Hvinden)
Data collection ongoing
Political instability and corporate board turnover (with Darin Christensen)
Data collection ongoing
Indigenization and political risk: Evidence from the global mining sector
Funded, data collection beginning