Publications

2025 A global minerals trust could prevent inefficient and inequitable protectionist policies Leonard Wantchekon · Science · Scholar only 15 2025 THE ART OF CONQUERING WITHOUT BEING RIGHT: Agency, education, and learning by doing in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure Leonard Wantchekon · Economics and Literature: A Novel Approach · Scholar only — 2024 Benin Leonard Wantchekon · EADI global development series · Scholar only — 2024 Racial Disparities in Economics: Citation Patterns and Idea Dissemination Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2024 Racial Inequality and Publication in Economics Leonard Wantchekon · AEA Papers and Proceedings · Scholar only 7 2024 The Color of Ideas: Racial Dynamics and Citations in Economics Leonard Wantchekon · National Bureau of Economic Research · Scholar only 11 2023 Deliberation and Ethical Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Campaign Experiment in Benin Leonard Wantchekon · American Political Science Review · Scholar only · needs review 9 2023 Economic Development IN Historical Political Economy Leonard Wantchekon · Oxford University Press eBooks · Scholar only 3 2023 Education for Control and Liberation in Africa and among the Black Diaspora Leonard Wantchekon · Comparative Education Review · Scholar only 4 2023 Evaluation of the Effects of Introducing Risk Management Tools in Agricultural Development: The Case of PADAER Senegal Leonard Wantchekon · Agriculture · Scholar only 5 2023 Impacts of Political Breaks on Education Policies, Access and Quality in Nigeria (1970 – 2003) Leonard Wantchekon · Research on improving systems of Education · Scholar only 7 2023 Political economy and structural transformation: democracy, regulation and public investment Leonard Wantchekon · Oxford Development Studies · Scholar only 32 2022 Africa rising: Opportunities for advancing theory on people, institutions, and the nation state in international business Leonard Wantchekon · Journal of International Business Studies · Scholar only 129 2022 COVID-19 Learning Losses, Parental Investments, and Recovery: Evidence from Low-Cost Private Schools in Nigeria Leonard Wantchekon · University of Oxford · Scholar only 12 2022 Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America Leonard Wantchekon · World Development · Scholar only 19 2022 Political Distortions, State Capture, and Economic Development in Africa Leonard Wantchekon · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · Scholar only 98 2022 Political uncertainty and the forms of state capture Leonard Wantchekon · Journal of Development Economics · Scholar only 18 2021 DEMOCRACY, REGULATION AND PUBLIC INVESTMENT” Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only 1 2021 Do gifts buy votes? Leonard Wantchekon · Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa · Scholar only 2 2021 Do gifts buy votes? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa Leonard Wantchekon · Working Paper Series · Scholar only 3 2020 Can Information Improve Rural Governance and Service Delivery? Leonard Wantchekon · World Development 240 2020 Clientelism Leonard Wantchekon · Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa · Scholar only — 2020 Does work experience teach non-violent dispute resolution?: evidence from a job training program in Benin Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2020 Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines Leonard Wantchekon · American Journal of Political Science 58 2019 2019 APSA Council and Officer Nominess Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2019 CAMPAIGN FINANCE Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2019 Clientelism Leonard Wantchekon · Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa · Scholar only 6 2019 Clientelism in Decentralized States Leonard Wantchekon · Decentralized Governance and Accountability: Academic Research and the Future of Donor Programming · needs review 15 2019 Mobile Technology and Food Access Leonard Wantchekon · World Development 49 2019 Road Network Centralization, Political Institutions, and Conflict Leonard Wantchekon · 2019 Meeting Papers · Scholar only 1 2019 The Strength of Weak Ties: Indirect Exposure to Colonial Education and Intergenerational Mobility in Benin⇤ Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only · needs review — 2018 Do Electoral Handouts Affect Voting Behavior? Leonard Wantchekon · Electoral Studies 111 2018 Quality Peace in Post-Civil War Settings Leonard Wantchekon · Understanding quality peace: Peacebuilding after civil war · Scholar only 5 2018 The Political Economy of Patrons, Brokers, and Voters Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only 9 2018 VALUE Leonard Wantchekon · Critical terms for the study of Africa/edited by Gaurav Desai and Adeline · Scholar only — 2017 Clientelism: Concepts, Agents, and Solutions Leonard Wantchekon · Universidad del Rosario Documentos de Trabajo · Scholar only 7 2017 Independence movements and democracy in Africa Leonard Wantchekon · The Long Economic and Political Shadow of History Volume II. Africa and Asia · Scholar only 2 2017 I Voted for Peace”: An Experiment on Approval Voting in Benin1 Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only 1 2017 Motivating bureaucrats Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2017 Policy Deliberation and Voter Persuasion. Measuring the Intrinsic Causal Effect of Town Hall Meetings Leonard Wantchekon · Journal of Development Effectiveness 14 2016 Is Language Destiny? The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa Leonard Wantchekon · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · Scholar only 14 2016 Migration, Machines and Reform Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2015 A Graphical Approximation to Generalization: Definitions and Diagrams Leonard Wantchekon · Journal of Globalization and Development · Scholar only 5 2015 Corruption and ideology in autocracies Leonard Wantchekon · JL Econ. & Org · Scholar only 77 2015 Corruption and Ideology in Autocracies Leonard Wantchekon · The Journal of Law Economics and Organization 47 2015 Democratic Governance in Africa: Misconceptions and Opportunities Leonard Wantchekon · AFRICA at a Fork in the Road · Scholar only — 2015 Does Corruption Information Inspire the Fight or Quash the Hope? A Field Experiment in Mexico on Voter Turnout, Choice and Party Identification Leonard Wantchekon · The Journal of Politics · needs review 713 2015 Education and Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from Colonial Benin Leonard Wantchekon · The Quarterly Journal of Economics 447 2015 Volume 130 May 2015 Issue 2 Leonard Wantchekon · Scholar only — 2014 Communicating and Investing in Policy Expertise: A Case for Primaries Leonard Wantchekon · Unpublished manuscript. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University · Scholar only 2