Jonah Rexer is an Economist at the World Bank and a research affiliate with the Empirical Studies of Conflict program at Princeton University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. His research agenda covers topics in political economy, development, and urban economics. His current work focuses on conflict and rent-sharing in resource-rich economies, land use regulation in developing cities, and the role of political instability in sovereign bond markets. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from Wharton.
Recent work by Jonah Rexer
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Can local ownership solve the resource curse in weak states? Evidence from Nigerian oil
Oil multinationals in Nigeria divesting their onshore assets to local firms resulted in substantial improvements in output and declines in oil theft and violence, driven by politically connected firms
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The economic effects of easing zoning restrictions: Evidence from São Paulo
Zoning reform in São Paulo led to new building permits, modest price declines primarily benefitting the college-educated rich moving in from suburbs