Contact Information
- Phone: 020-7852-3554
- Fax: 020-7852-3554
- Room number: 32L 3.17
- Secretarial Support: Rhoda Frith, Tel: 020-7955-6674
- Postal Address: STICERD, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
- Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00 - 13:00 (by appointment)
- Email: g.padro@lse.ac.uk
Professional Profile
Co-Director, State Effectiveness Programme at the International Growth Centre
Research Affiliate, CEPR
Research Fellow, BREAD
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Associate, ThReD
Director of Master in Public Administration, Institute of Public Affairs.
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2012–present
Professor in Economics, LSE
2007-2012
Lecturer in Economics, LSE
2005-2007
Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford GSB
EDITORIAL POSITIONS
2013-Present
Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics
2011-Present
Associate Editor, Review of Economic Studies
2016-Present
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics
Published research
June 2015
The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
With Robin Burgess, Remi Jedwab, Ameet Morjaria and Edward Miguel, American Economic Review 105(6): 1817-1851, June 2015. Online appendix here. (BREAD working paper here, CEPR discussion paper version here, NBER working paper version here).
June 2012
Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent approach to Randomized Control Trials
With Sylvain Chassang and Erik Snowberg, American Economic Review 102(4): 1279-1309, June 2012. (BREAD working paper here, CEPR discussion paper version here, NBER working paper version here).
June 2012
A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization
With John W Hatfield, Journal of the European Economic Association 10(3): 605-633, June 2012. (NBER working paper version here).
May 2012
The Political Economy of Indirect Control
With Pierre Yared, Quarterly Journal of Economics 127(2): 947-1015, May 2012. (NBER working paper version here).
January 2012
The Lesser Evil: Executive Accountability with Partisan Supporters
With Erik Snowberg, Journal of Theoretical Politics 24(1): 19-45, January 2012.
July 2011
Foreign Influence and Welfare
With Pol Antràs, Journal of International Economics 84(2): 135-148, July 2011. (NBER working paper version here).
November 2010
Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk
With Sylvain Chassang, Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(4): 1821-1858, November 2010. (NBER working paper version here).
April-May 2010
Savings and Predation
With Sylvain Chassang, Journal of the European Economic Association P&P 8(2-3): 645-654, April-May 2010.
October 2009
Economic Shocks and Civil War
With Sylvain Chassang, Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4(3): 211-228, October 2009.
May 2009
Defensive Weapons and Defensive Alliances
With Sylvain Chassang, American Economic Review P&P 99(2): 282-286, May 2009.
October 2007
The Control of Politicians in Divided Societies: The Politics of Fear
Review of Economic Studies 74(4): 1259-1274, October 2007. (Longer NBER Working Paper version here).
August 2006
Legislative Effectiveness and Legislative Life
With James M Snyder, Legislative Studies Quarterly 31(3): 347-381, August 2006.
Working Papers
Submitted
Political Reform in China: The Effect of Local Elections
With Monica Martinez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao. Previous version entitled "The Effect of Democratization on Public Goods and Redistribution: Evidence from China" NBER working paper 18101, CEPR discussion paper 8975.
Submitted
Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections: Evidence from China
With Nancy Qian and Yang Yao. NBER working paper 18633, CEPR discussion paper 9278, BREAD working paper 366.
Submitted
Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China
With Nancy Qian, Yiqing Xu and Yang Yao. NBER working paper 21058, CEPR discussion paper 10515, BREAD working paper 446.
Submitted
Corruption, Intimidation and Whistle-blowing: a Theory of Inference from Unverifiable Reports
With Sylvain Chassang. NBER working paper 20315.
Ongoing
Do Local Elections in Non-Democracies Increase Accountability? Evidence from Rural China
With Monica Martinez-Bravo, Nancy Qian and Yang Yao. BREAD working paper 300, CEPR discussion paper 8368, NBER working paper 16948.
Mutual Fears and Civil War
With Sylvain Chassang. BREAD working paper 165.