Publications
Bowles, Jeremy and Horacio Larreguy. Forthcoming. “Who Debates, Who Wins? At-Scale Experimental Evidence on the Supply of Policy Information in a Liberian Election.” American Political Science Review. [VoxDev] [EGAP] [J-PAL] [Internews] [EPoD] [Uncovering Politics].
Bowles, Jeremy, Kevin Croke, Horacio Larreguy, Shelley Liu, and John Marshall. Forthcoming. “Sustaining Exposure to Fact-checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and its Political Implications.” American Political Science Review. [EGAP] [J-PAL].
Bowles, Jeremy. 2024. “Identifying the Rich: Registration, Taxation, and Access to the State in Tanzania.” American Political Science Review 118(2): 602-618. [Uncovering Politics].
Bowles, Jeremy, Horacio Larreguy, and Shelley Liu. 2020. “How Weakly Institutionalized Parties Monitor Brokers in Developing Democracies: Evidence from Postconflict Liberia.” American Journal of Political Science 64(4): 952-967.
Bowles, Jeremy, Horacio Larreguy, and Shelley Liu. 2020. “Countering Misinformation Via WhatsApp: Preliminary Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe.” PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240005. [Internews] [The Communication Initiative] [EPoD] [J-PAL].
Bowles, Jeremy, Jonas Hjort, Timothy Melvin, and Eric Werker. 2016. “Ebola, Jobs, and Economic Activity in Liberia” BMJ: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health 70(3): 271-277. [IGC].
Working papers
“Do Elites Know Best? Candidate Selection and Policy Implementation in Post-independence Tanzania.” Revise & resubmit, American Political Science Review.
“Access to Social Media and Support for Elected Autocrats: Field Experimental and Observational Evidence from Uganda,” with John Marshall and Pia Raffler. [King Center]. Revise & resubmit, American Political Science Review.
“Turnover and Accountability in Africa’s Parliaments,” with Ben Marx. Revise & resubmit, Journal of Development Economics.
“Elite Identity, Land Inequality and Local Development: Evidence from Colonial Ireland,” with Gabriel Koehler-Derrick and Mike Olson. [GLD].
“The Limits of Legibility: How Distributive Conflicts Constrain State-Building.”
“Information Versus Control: The Electoral Consequences of Polling Place Creation,” with Horacio Larreguy and Anders Woller.
Work in progress
“Decentralization with Guardrails: Field Experimental Reforms to the Zambian Constituency Development Fund,” with Katherine Casey and Andres Rodriguez. [Stanford Impact Labs] [IGC].
“Decolonizing the State: Bureaucratic Capacity and Policy Implementation in the Tanzanian Civil Service,” with Juan Felipe Riaño.
“Off the Map: Informational Capacity and Local Development in Colonial Ireland,” with Gabriel Koehler-Derrick.
“Colonial Surveillance and Distributive Politics in French West Africa,” with Ben Marx and Gabriel Koehler-Derrick.
“Polarization and Exposure to Counter-Attitudinal Media in a Nondemocracy,” with Ahmet Akbiyik, Horacio Larreguy, and Shelley Liu. [J-PAL] [King Center].