Articles in peer-reviewed journals

“From Demand Deficit to Development Strategy: Navigating Mini-Grid Viability in a Fragile Context”
Energy Economics, 2026. With E. Lunanga, M. Verpoorten and S. Desbureaux.
link | IOB Working Paper | replication | science communication: The Conversation

“The Determinants of Assistance to Refugees? Ukrainian and Syrian Refugees in Poland”
Comparative Political Studies, 2026. With V. Charnysh, L. Peisakhin and P. van der Windt
link | replication | Egap Registry

“Anxiety, Depression, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Displaced and Non-displaced Individuals after Armed Conflict: Cross-sectional Survey Evidence from the Kasai, Congo”
BMJ Open, 2026. With P. van der Windt, S. Weber, and P. Ventevogel
link

“Conflict Participation and Attitudes towards Displaced Persons: Evidence from DR Congo”.
Journal of Peace Research, 2026. With S. Weber and P. van der Windt. link | Egap Registry

“Where to flee? Preferences for host communities among displaced people in DR Congo”
PLOS One, 2025. With P. van der Windt and S. Weber
link | replication | Egap Registry

“A meta-analysis of attitudes towards migrants and displaced persons”. British Journal of Political Science, 2025.
With S. Weber, P. van der Windt and H. Zhai link | Egap Registry | replication | Stanford IPL Working Paper

“You go, I stay: Intrahousehold evacuation behavior upon a disaster”. World Development, 2025
With E. M. Ndatabaye, E. Lunanga, and M. Verpoorten link | PDF | replication

“Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced”. American Political Science Review, 2025.
With L. Peisakhin
and P. van der Windt. link | PDF | replication | science communication: Good Authority

“Presidents and vaccines. Head of state inoculation as a tool for vaccine promotion”. Frontiers in Public Health, 2024.
With L. Collart, E. Lunanga and M. Verpoorten
. link | PDF | replication |science communication: The Conversation | media: Communication Initiative Network 

“Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa”. BMJ Global Health, 2021.
With J.F. Maystadt and K. Hirvonen. link |
PDF | replication | science communication: The Conversation | media: Le Soir ; IFPRI ; SciDev ; Communication Initiative Network 

“Would you fight? We asked aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern Congo”. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2021.
With M. Verpoorten. link | PDF |
replication | science communication: Political Violence at a Glance | media: Peace Science Digest

“Covid-19 vs. Ebola: impact on households and small businesses in North Kivu, DR Congo”. World Development, 2021.
With S. Desbureaux, A. Kaota, E. Lunanga and M. Verpoorten. link |
PDF | replication | science communication: blog

“How much do artisanal miners earn? An inquiry among Congolese gold miners”. Resources Policy, 2021. 
With S. Geenen and M. Verpoorten link | PDF | survey | survey instruments | science communication: blog

“Risk, envy and magic in DRC’s artisanal mining sector: insights into the ‘Modernity of Witchcraft'”. Development and Change, 2020.
With M. Verpoorten. link |
PDF | science communication: blog

“Artisanal or Industrial Conflict Minerals? Evidence from Eastern Congo”. World Development, 2019. 
With M. Verpoorten and P. van der Windt. link | PDF |
replication | science communication: The Conversation; Political Violence at a Glance; policy brief

“Voodoo, vaccines and bed nets”. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019. 
With M. Verpoorten and K. Deconinck. link | PDF | science communication:
policy brief

“More legislation, more violence? The impact of Dodd-Frank in the DRC”. PLOS ONE, 2018. 
With M. Verpoorten and P. van der Windt. link | replication | science communication: Washington Post; Political Violence at a Glance; policy brief | media: PERC

“Defusing the social minefield of gold sites in Kamituga, South Kivu. From legal pluralism to the re-making of institutions?”.
Resources Policy, 2017. With K. Buraye and M. Verpoorten. link | PDF | policy brief

“To fish or not to fish? Resource degradation and income diversification in Benin”. Environment and Development Economics, 2016. 
With R. Houssa and M. Verpoorten. link | PDF

“Self-reported food insecurity in Africa during the food price crisis”. Food Policy, 2013. 
With M. Verpoorten, A. Abimanju and J. Swinnen. link |
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