Jonah M. Rexer - Research

Pubs

J. M. Rexer. 2025. "Corruption as a local advantage: Evidence from the indigenization of Nigerian oil." American Economic Review 115 (3) 1019-57.

Ungated version, World Bank Development Impact, Penn Kleinman Center Insights, VoxDev, CEPR/PEDL Working Paper

J. M. 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. M. 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

WPs

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform (with Santosh Anagol and Fernando Ferreira) Conditionally accepted at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (pending replication 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)

VoxDev, NBER Working Paper

Violence and black markets: Evidence from the Niger Delta conflict (with Even Hvinden) Revise and Resubmit at Joural of Development Economics

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

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)

ESOC Working Paper

Heat, firms, and reallocations in the non-farm sector: Evidence from India (with Siddharth Sharma) Under Review

Presented at: NEUDC (2024), Stanford University Climate Change Adaptation Conference (2024)

Critical mining contributes to economic growth and forest loss in high-corruption settings (with Erik Katovich) Submitted

Climate change adaptation: What does the evidence say? (with Siddharth Sharma)

Education, social norms, and the marriage penalty: Evidence from South Asia (with Maurizio Bussolo and Margaret Triyana)

Presented at: World Bank Gender Research in South Asia Seminar (2024)

Media: Economic Times; Yahoo; Telegraph India

Household and firm exposure to heat and floods in South Asia (with A. Patrick Behrer, Siddharth Sharma, and Margaret Triyana)

Local and multinational comparative advantage in the global mining industry (with Erik Katovich and Utsoree Das)

Presented at: University of Geneva (2024)

STEG Working Paper

WIPs

The Urban Gender Premium in Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from South Asia (with Sam Asher, Maurizio Bussolo, and Paul Novosad) Draft soon

Embankments: Climate beliefs, behaviors, and adaptation (with Ashley Pople, Siddharth Sharma, and Maggie Triyana) Data collection complete

Norms and laws: The political economy of gender equality (with Maurizio Bussolo) Draft soon

Fuel subsidies with black-market leakage: Evidence from Nigeria

Policy writing

South Asia Development Update, Chapter 2: Empower to prosper: women working for growth. October 2024. The World Bank.

OECD Blog; World Bank blog

South Asia Development Update, Spotlight: Heat and floods in South Asia: Household and firm exposure. October 2024. The World Bank.

South Asia Development Update, Spotlight: Who bears the burden of climate adaptation and how? April 2024. The World Bank.

South Asia Development Update, Chapter 2: Recruiting firms for the energy transition, October 2023. The World Bank.

Myanmar Economic Bulletin, Trade and Transport: Subnational convergence in Myanmar, 2018. Myanmar Development Institute, Ministry of Finance and Planning.