Peer-reviewed publications

J. M. Rexer. (forthcoming). "Corruption as a local advantage: Evidence from the indigenization of Nigerian oil." The American Economic Review.

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

Working papers

Estimating the Economic Value of Zoning Reform (with Santosh Anagol and Fernando Ferreira) Conditionally accepted 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)

VoxDev, NBER 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

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)

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

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

Works in progress

Indigenization in the global mining sector (with Erik Katovich and Utsoree Das) Draft soon

Critical minerals and metals mining (with Erik Katovich) Draft soon

Fuel subsidies with black-market leakage: Evidence from Nigeria

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

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

Policy writing

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

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.