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
Corruption as a local advantage: Evidence from the indigenization of Nigerian oil (Job Market Paper) Conditionally accepted at American Economic Review
Presented at: World Bank DECRG (2023), Brown (2023), UW-Madison (2023), Yale (2022), NYU (2022), Rochester (2022), 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, VoxDev, CEPR/PEDL Working Paper
Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform (with Santosh Anagol and Fernando Ferreira) Revise and Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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)
Pricing Conflict Risk: Evidence from Sovereign Bonds (with Ethan B. Kapstein, and Andrés Rivera) Under Review
Presented at: Georgetown University (2024), NBER Summer Institute (2023), UT Dallas (2023), Royal Economic Society (2023), LatAm Peace Science Conference (2023), DebtCon Princeton (2023), ESOC Lab (2022), WEFIDEV (2022), CESifo Political Economy (2022)
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
Climate change adaptation: What does the evidence say? (with Siddharth Sharma)
Works in progress
Indigenization in the global mining sector (with Erik Katovich and Utsoree Das)
Draft in progress
Fuel subsidies with black-market leakage: Evidence from Nigeria
Draft in progress
Policy writing
South Asia Development Update, Spotlight: Who bears the burden of climate adaptation and how? April 2024
South Asia Development Update, Chapter 2: Recruiting firms for the energy transition, October 2023