I am currently working on 15 active research projects:

1. ``Gone with the wind: The consequences of US drone strikes in Pakistan,'' with Rafat Mahmood (Pakistan, starting at NYU Abu Dhabi in December 2021). This paper has been revised and resubmited to the Economic Journal.

2. ``Persuasive agenda-setting: Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration speech and drugs in the Philippines,'' with Teresa Molina (USA). Revision requested for the Journal of Development Economics.

3. ``Explaining post-Cold-War civil conflict among 17 billion models: The importance of history and religion,'' with Rafat Mahmood (NYUAD), Christopher F. Parmeter (USA), and Andrés Ramírez Hassan (COL). Revision requested for Economic Modelling.

4.``News coverage and mass shootings in the US,'' with Jay K. Walker (USA). Under review.

5. ``Community size and electoral preferences: Evidence from post-WWII Baden-W\"{u}rttemberg,'' with Luciana Fiorini (UWA), Christopher F. Parmeter (USA), and Christopher Parsons (UWA).

6. ``Captivating news: Media coverage of an elusive prisoner exchange program and FARC kidnappings,'' with Juan P. Aparicio (UWA, PhD student). Under review.

7. ``Escaping poverty to experience terrorism: Evidence from subnational data,'' with Rafat Mahmood (NYUAD) and David Stadelmann (GER).

8. ``Gender match and the gender gap in venture capital financing: Evidence from Shark Tank,'' with Kieran Stockley (UWA). Under review.

9. ``On the relationship between trade openness and government size,'' with Tushar Bharati (UWA) and Mohammad Farhad (UWA). Under review.

10. ``On the long-term development of moral universalism.'' Submitted.

11. ``Misreported trade," with Mohammad Farhad (UWA), Jakob Madsen (UWA), and Andrew Williams (UWA). Submitted.

12. ``The salience of supernatural beliefs and war,'' with Tim Krieger (GER).

13. ``For FARC's sake: Demobilizing rebels,'' with Juan P. Aparicio (UWA, PhD student) and Christopher Parsons (UWA).

14.``Types of communications technology and civil conflict,'' with Tushar Bharati (UWA) and Nauman Malik (UWA, PhD student).

15. ``Media coverage and terrorism,'' with Juan P. Aparicio (UWA, PhD student) and Tushar Bharati (UWA).

My future research will broadly concern the topics of terrorism, counterterrorism, civil conflict and civil war, and the development of morality. Most projects will emphasise empirical approaches, based on carefully developed theoretical frameworks.

I am currently teaching 2 units at UWA: An honours course on "The Political Economy of Terrorism and Counterterrorism" that emphasises empirical methods to isolate causal effects from correlational data, as well as a newly introduced unit for the Masters of Business Data Analytics (beginning in 2022-1) entitled "Text-to-Data Applications and Novel Data Sources."