Research

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “Why Compete for Firms?: Electoral Effects of Corporate Headquarters Relocation.” American Journal of Political Science, 68(2): 339-353, 2024. [Link]

  • “What Do Aid Recipients Want? Public Attitudes Toward Foreign Aid in Developing Countries.” World Development, 2024. [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee] [Link]

  • “Beyond Coercion: Weaker States’ Domestic Political Motivations for Political Clauses in Preferential Trade Agreements.” The World Economy, 2024. [with Lisa Lechner] [Link]

  • “Information campaigns and public perceptions of structural reforms: Evidence from a survey experiment on gasoline subsidy reform in Nigeria.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 43(2): 509-529, 2024. [With Tom Moerenhout] [Link]

  • “Clearing the Air: Public Health Concerns and Support for Natural Gas Restrictions in the United States.” Energy Research & Social Science, 108: 103404, 2024. [With Elena McLean and Taehee Whang] [Link]

  • “Political Regime, Institutional Capacity, and Inefficient Policy: Evidence from Gasoline Subsidies.” Review of Policy Research, 2024. [With Richard McAlexander and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Target, Information, and Trade Preferences: Evidence from Survey Experiment in East Asia.” American Journal of Political Science, 67(4): 898-914, 2023. [With Sung Eun Kim, Jong Hee Park, and Inbok Rhee] [Link]

  • “Who Votes for Free Trade and When? Geopolitics as the Sources of Legislative Preferences on Free Trade Agreements.” Review of International Political Economy, 30(6), 2257-2284, 2023. [With Sung Eun Kim] [Link]

  • “South Korean Newspaper Coverage of Yemeni Refugees: Analysis of Topics and Sentiments using Machine Learning Techniques.” Asian Journal of Communication, 34(1): 57-72, 2023. [with Jae Young Huh] [Link]

  • “Environmental Perception and Public Attitudes toward Nuclear Energy in South Korea.” East and West Studies, 35-1: 201-239, 2023. (In Korean) [with Kyuhee Park] [Link]

  • “Identifying coal plants for early retirement in India: A multidimensional analysis of technical, economic, and environmental factors.” Applied Energy 312: 118644, 2022. [With Nada Maamoun, Puneet Chitkara, Gireesh Shrimali, Joshua Busby, Sarang Shidore, Yana Jin, and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Gasoline in the Voter’s Pocketbook: Driving Times to Work and the Electoral Implications of Gasoline Price Fluctuations.” American Politics Research 50(3): 312-319, 2022. [With Sung Eun Kim] [Link]

  • “Tax Evasion Attitudes of Small Firms in Low- and Middle-income Countries: Evidence from Nigeria.” Development Policy Review 40(6): 1-17, 2022. [With Tom Moerenhout] [Link]

  • “Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Retrospective Voting, Natural Disasters, and Electoral Backlash.” Comparative Political Studies, 54(7):1163-1196, 2021. [With Brian Blankenship, Ryan Kennedy, and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Thermoelectric Power Generation and Water Stress in India: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis.” Environmental Science & Technology, 55(8): 4314-4323, 2021. [With Chao Zhang, Johannes Urpelainen, Puneet Chitkara, Jiayi Zhang, and Jiao Wang] [Link]

  • “Building Social Contracts: The Determinants of Tax Morale in Nigeria.” Journal of Development Studies, 57-2: 226-243, 2021. [With Neil McCulloch and Tom Moerenhout] [Link]

  • “Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Social Contract in Nigeria: a Micro-economic Analysis.” Energy Policy, 156: 112336, 2021. [With Neil McCulloch and Tom Moerenhout] [Link]

  • “State Policy and Lobbying in a Federal System: Evidence from the Production Tax Credit for Renewable Energy, 1998-2012.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly, 21(1): 1-30, 2021. [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “The Need for Impact Evaluation in Electricity Access Research.” Energy Policy 137: 111099, 2020. [With Patrick Bayer, Ryan Kennedy, and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “The Future of India’s Coal-Fired Power Generation Capacity.” Journal of Cleaner Production 226: 904-912, 2019. [With Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Global Patterns of Power Sector Reform, 1982-2013.” Energy Strategy Reviews 23: 152-162, 2019. [With Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Is Coal-Fired Power Generation Associated with Rural Electrification? A Global Analysis.” Energy Research & Social Science 58: 101274, 2019. [With Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Shades of Darkness or Light? A Systematic Review of Geographic Bias in Impact Evaluations of Electricity Access.” Energy Research & Social Science 58: 101236, 2019. [With Patrick Bayer, David Hamburger, Joel Jaeger, Ryan Kennedy, and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Environmental Effects of GATT/WTO Membership: An Empirical Evaluation.” International Interactions 45: 917-932, 2019. [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Power Sector Reforms and Technical Performance: Good News from an Instrumental Variable Analysis.” Review of Policy Research 35(1): 120-152, 2018. [With Johannes Urpelainen and Di Liu] [Link]

  • “Policy Reform and the Problem of Private Investment: Evidence from the Power Sector.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 36(1): 38-64, 2017. [With Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Electric Utilities and American Climate Policy: Lobbying by Expected Winners and Losers.” Journal of Public Policy 36(2): 251-275, 2016. [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Does Power Sector Deregulation Promote or Discourage Renewable Energy Policy? Evidence from the States, 1991-2012.” Review of Policy Research 33(1): 22-50, 2016. [With Sung Eun Kim and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]

  • “Light for All? Evaluating Brazil’s Rural Electrification Progress, 2000-2010.” Energy Policy 86: 315-327, 2015. [With Tara Slough and Johannes Urpelainen] [Link]