We examine the impact of democracy and governance on rural electrification and rural
access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking using comprehensive panel data of 34 …

Global climate solutions depend on low-carbon energy transitions in develo** countries,
but little is known about how those will unfold. Examining the transitions of Brazil and South …

How do develo** states decide who gets access to public goods like electricity, water, and
education? Power and the Vote breaks new ground by showing that the provision of …

While it is commonly believed that democracy influences public service provision,
comparably few studies have assessed how recent democratisation in develo** countries …

Various theories of democratic governance posit that citizens should vote for incumbent
politicians when they provide good service, and vote for the opposition when service …

Remote-sensing data has the potential to revolutionize social science. One of the most
prominent examples of this is the Nighttime Lights data set, which provides digital measures …

This paper examines how electoral motives shape the subnational allocation of foreign aid
commitments by employing a newly constructed geocoded dataset for 14 sub-Saharan …

How do African governments respond to democratic electoral competition? Although the
common perception is that African governments have sought to win elections by combining …

In countries with low household electrification rates, who gets electricity is an urgent political
question. I examine the location and timing of 3,515 electrification projects in democratic …

Abstract Between 1940 and 1970, more than 4 million African Americans moved from the
South to the North of the US, during the Second Great Migration. This same period …