Work in progress
Africa Descending and Rising and the Commodity Price CycleWorking Paper
Forthcoming
Inherited Wealth in Post-Apartheid South Africa: New Perspectives from Probate RecordsBook Chapter
The Racial Wealth Divide. LSE Open-Access book.
Published articles & book chapters
The Origins of African Elites: Historical Perspectives, State of Knowledge and the Path ForwardBook Chapter
Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Global Elites
Africa's Lost Decades, 1974–1994Book Chapter
The History of African Development: An Online Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers. African Economic History Network E-Book.
Colonial Legacies and Wealth Inequality in KenyaJournal Article
Explorations in Economic History
Elite persistence in Sierra Leone: what can names tell us?Journal Article
Journal of Development Economics
Is Kenya's gender wealth gap narrowing? New insights from probate recordsJournal Article
Socio-Economic Review
Diversity and liberalisation reforms: evidence from the University of NairobiJournal Article
International Journal of Educational Development, 89, 102535
The re-emerging urban bias: growing regional inequalities in university attainment in seven African countriesJournal Article
International Journal of Educational Development, 84, 102427
Ethnic favouritism in Kenyan education reconsidered: When a picture is worth more than a thousand regressionsJournal Article — Winner, David & Helen Kimble Prize
Journal of Modern African Studies, 58(3): 425–460
Journal of International Development, 32(5): 607–635
Statistical sources and African postcolonial economic history: notes from the (digital) archivesResearch Note
Economic History of Developing Regions, 35(1)
Africa's clientelist budget policies revisited: public expenditure and employment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960–2010Journal Article
Economic History Review, 72(4): 1409–1438
Ethnic (in)equality in the public services of Kenya and UgandaJournal Article
African Affairs, 118(470): 75–100
The global significance and national inequality declineJournal Article
Third World Quarterly, 41(1): 20–41
Working papers
'A public and a private university in one': Equity in university attendance in Kenya since the liberalisation reforms of the 1990sWorking Paper
UNRISD Working Paper
Regional inequalities in African political economy: theory, conceptualization and measurementWorking Paper
LSE International Development Department Working Paper
Inequality decline and the politics of redistribution in developing countriesWorking Paper
International Inequalities Institute Working Paper Series, LSE