My Academic Papers

(Under construction)

(The page, that is, not the papers, hopefully)

• Papers on deliberative democracy:
• "Does Deliberation Matter? A Study of Deliberative Democracy in São Tomé e Príncipe's National Forum", September 2004
• Papers relating to economic development:
• "Taxable Resource Revenue Distributions: A Proposal for Alleviating the Natural Resource Curse", CGSD Working Paper No. 21, August 2004
• "Why Has Infant Mortality Decreased at Such Different Rates in Different Countries?" Disease Control Priorities Project Working Paper No. 21, February 2004 (with Dean T. Jamison and Jia Wang)
• "WHO Measures of Health Performance", Science, Vol. 293 (31 August 2001), pp. 1595-6
• Detailed appendix outlining the methodology used in the Science paper
• Spreadsheets and statistical results
• Papers on preference theory:
• "Fairness and the Road Not Taken: An Experimental Test of Non-Reciprocal Set-Dependence in Distributive Preferences", July 2004 (Third chapter of Ph.D. dissertation)
• Addendum to the above paper, including detailed information on the the experimental protocol
• "Axiomatic Foundations For Reference-Dependent Distributive Preferences", September 2003 (Second chapter of Ph.D. dissertation)
• "Is Non-Instrumental Valuation of Processes Rational?" September 2003 (First chapter of Ph.D. dissertation)
• Papers in political philosophy:
• "On Dworkin's Brute Luck-Option Luck Distinction and the Consistency of Brute Luck Egalitarianism", forthcoming, Politics, Philosophy & Economics
• See also the paper on deliberation above