Macartan Humphreys works on the political economy of development. His ongoing research focuses on post-conflict development, ethnic politics, political authority and leadership, and democratic development with a current focus on the use of field experiments to study democratic decision-making in post-conflict and developing areas. Macartan has worked in Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda, and elsewhere. Recent work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Development Economics, Science Advances, and elsewhere. He has written or coauthored books on ethnic politics, natural resource management, and game theory and politics. Macartan is a former Trudeau fellow and scholar of the Harvard Academy. He directs the Institutions and Political Inequality group at the WZB Berlin and holds honorary professorships in social sciences at Humboldt University and Trinity College Dublin.
Macartan Humphreys works on the political economy of development. His ongoing research focuses on post-conflict development, ethnic politics, political authority and leadership, and democratic development with a current focus on the use of field experiments to study democratic decision-making in post-conflict and developing areas. Macartan has worked in Chad, Ghana, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Uganda, and elsewhere. Recent work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Development Economics, Science Advances, and elsewhere. He has written or coauthored books on ethnic politics, natural resource management, and game theory and politics. Macartan…