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• Interview on "Economic Gangsters" "Inside corruption in poor countries" (Audio) 10 November 2008
• Commentary "Don't forget the already poor" (Audio) 13 October 2008
• Commentary "Political ties boost bottom lines" (Audio) 26 September 2008
• Commentary "Africa benefits from commodity costs" (Audio) 15 July 2008
• Commentary "Using foreign aid to stop conflict" (Audio) 27 May 2008

Spring Cleaning: Rural Water Impacts, Valuation, and Institutions with Michael Kremer, Jessica Leino and Alix Zwane

• Resources for the Future Weekly Policy Commentary "Deciphering the demand for safe drinking water", September 1, 2008
• Boston Review "Water Technologies: What works best in poor countries?", September/ October 2008

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta with Chang-Tai Hsieh, Daniel Ortega, and Francisco Rodriguez

• El Nacional (Venezuela) "Ser opositor tiene su precio", 6 April 2008

Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities with Michael Kremer Econometrica, 2004, 72 (1), 159-217

• Chicago Tribune "Hookworm: Shining light on a neglected disease", 4 March 2008
• New York Times "Making Economics Relevant Again", 20 February 2008
• Nature News "Field trials aim to tackle poverty", 22 October 2007
• New York Times "Attack of the Worms", 02 July 2007
• New York Times "World Bank Challenged: Are Poor Really Helped?", 28 July 2004

Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach with Shanker Satyanath and Ernest Sergenti Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112(4), 725-753

• Forbes "How to Prevent War and Famine" (with Ray Fisman), 14 October 2008
• NPR Marketplace "Using foreign aid to stop conflict" (Audio) 27 May 2008
• New York Times "Extended Forecast: Bloodshed", Nicholas Kristof, 13 April 2008
• Wall Street Journal "New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears", March 24, 2008
• New York Times Magazine "The Price of Climate Change", November 5, 2006
• BusinessWeek "Stop Conflict Before it Starts", September 18, 2006

The Illusion of Sustainability with Michael Kremer Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 112(3), 1007-1065

• Boston Globe article "A handout, not a hand up: A popular approach to 'sustainable development' doesn't work, critics say", November 11, 2007
• Liberation (France) article "Reinventer le developpement durable", February 13, 2006

Poverty and Witch Killing Review of Economic Studies, 2005, 72(4), 1153-1172

• Financial Times (UK) "Why it's dangerous to be a witch in a recession", Tim Harford, 13 September 2008
• New York Times "Extended Forecast: Bloodshed", Nicholas Kristof, 13 April 2008
• U.C. Berkeley Press release "Study links extreme weather, poverty, and witch killings", July 2003
• Weatherwise "Weather Spawns Witch Killing", Sept/Oct 2003

Tribe or Nation? Nation-Building and Public Goods in Kenya versus Tanzania World Politics, 2004, 56 (3), 327-362

• Liberation (France) article "Le defi arc-en-ciel du Kenya", January 2003
• Boston Globe "The Culture of Corruption", July 27, 2008, by Drake Bennett

Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Ticketswith Ray Fisman Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy

• Forbes "On My Mind: Reforming Tony Soprano's Morals", May 2006
• Folha de S. Paulo "Corrupcao e estacionamento proibido", 6/18/2006
• Sydney Morning Herald "Buick stops here for corruption", 6/23/2006
• Business Standard "Corruption as a cultural phenomenon", 6/30/2006
• Washington Post "Diplomatic Scofflaws and the Culture of Corruption", 6/30/2006
• Associated Press "Study Shows Why Diplomats Won’t Pay Up", 7/6/2006
• CNN.com "Study: Diplomats whose countries dislike U.S. less likely to pay fines", 7/6/2006
• Slate "The Case of the Unpaid Parking Ticket", 7/8/2006
• Financial Times "If the price is right", 7/8/2006
• Washington Times "Corruption is a state of mind", 7/8/2006
• Baltic News Service "Estonia's Diplomats Less Law-Abiding Than Neighboring Countries", 7/10/2006
• Toronto Star "A new way to judge the risk of investment", 7/11/2006
• Boston Herald "Taking it out on Uncle Sam", 7/16/2006
• Weekly Standard "Scrapbook: Albright in North Korea, and more", 7/17/2006
• Smart Money (Russia) "Diplomats, Cops and Corruption", 7/17/2006
• MetroWest Daily News "Friends, enemies, and parking tickets", 7/21/2006
• El Diario Vasco (Spain) "Multas Diplomaticas", 7/23/2006
• The Economist "Diplomats and parking fines: A ticket for corruption", August 12-18, 2006
• New York Times "The Culture of Nations", David Brooks , August 13, 2006
• Financial Times "Academics dish the dirt on UN's worst New York parking violators", August 15, 2006
• Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) "Envoys' parking ticket toll", August 16, 2006
• Wall Street Journal "Born Bad", August 17, 2006
• Mail & Guardian (SouthAfrica) "SA scores highly on parking-ticket corruption indicator", August 18, 2006
• El Mercurio (Chile) "Practicas Pocas Diplomaticas", August 20, 2006
• Philippine Daily Inquirer (The Philippines) "Beyond Parking Tickets", August 22, 2006
• Reason "National Parking", October 2006
• Atlantic Monthly "Primary Sources: Diplomatic Impunity", October 2006
• National Post (Canada) "Corruption and Culture", 12/12/2006
• New York Times Magazine (The Year in Ideas issue) "The Diplomat-Parking-Violation Corruption Index", 12/10/2006
• Zycie Warszawy (Poland) "Nasi dyplomaci nie oszukuja", 12/12/2006
• El Economista (Argentina) "Se trata de aplicar la ley", June 6, 2008, by Sebastian Galiani
• Boston Globe "The Culture of Corruption", July 27, 2008, by Drake Bennett
• National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation "Corruption Loves Company", August 6, 2008
• Daily News (Egypt) "Egypt diplomats worst traffic offenders, says London paper", December 10, 2008, by Yasmine Saleh
• International Herald Tribune "Finding tools to fight corruption in emerging Southeast Asian economies", December 17, 2008, by Andrew Marshall

The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam with Gerard Roland

• U.C. Berkeley Press release "UC Berkeley researchers report little impact on Vietnam's economic resilience of massive bombing", April 2005
• Smart Money (Russia) "Economics Dream Team", 7/10/2006
• New York Times "Economic Scene: Count Ethnic Divisions, Not Bombs, to Tell if a Nation will Recover From War", 7/20/2006
• The Milken Institute Review "Bombing Vietnam: The Long-Term Consequences", Fourth Quarter 2006

Incentives to Learn with Michael Kremer and Rebecca Thornton

• The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch "Learn, then Earn", September 25, 2006
• Education Next "Incentives to Learn: Merit Scholarships that Pay Kids to Do Well", Spring 2005
• Forbes "On My Mind: Cash Talks", November 2003

Iraq War Casualties and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election with David Karol

• Chicago Tribune "The Swamp: Iraq Calculus could tip presidential race", September 22, 2008
• U.C. Berkeley Press release "Study explores Iraq impact on U.S. presidential race ", November 2004
• CNN Inside Politics piece, November 2004

Other articles

• The American Magazine "The Young Economist: A Gangster Has Many Faces", November/December 2008, by Anthony Dick
• New York Post "How Fraud Becomes Contagious", October 5, 2008 (with Ray Fisman)
• Foreign Policy "How Economics Can Defeat Corruption", September/October 2008
• Boston Globe "Africa Rising", December 9, 2007, by Drake Bennett