Working Papers

• No shame in my name: Public disclosure and tax compliance in a low-capacity state

  P. Manwaring, T. Regan — May 2026
  PDF

• The Role of Social Connections in the Racial Segregation of US Cities

  A. Diemer, T. Regan, C.K. Tang — February 2026
  Accepted, Journal of Economic Geography
  PDF

• Economics of Greenfield Urban Planning

  J.V. Henderson, F. Líbano-Monteiro, M. Manara, G. Michaels, T. Regan — October 2025
  PDF

Work in Progress

• Slum eviction with in-situ rehousing: Evidence from Rwanda

  with M. Manara, J. Oliveira-Cunha

• Construction Dynamics in Sites and Services Projects

  with J.V. Henderson, F. Líbano-Monteiro, M. Manara, G. Michaels

• The economic consequences of statistical property valuation: Evidence from Kampala, Uganda

• The long run effects of Sites & Services: Evidence from World Bank shelter programs in 47 countries

Publications

• Illuminating the Global South

  G. Chiovelli, S. Michalopoulos, E. Papaioannou, T. Regan — forthcoming
  Economic Journal
  DOI Ungated Version code to build data

• Ask a local: Improving the public pricing of land titles in urban Tanzania

  M. Manara, T. Regan — 2025
  Review of Economics and Statistics
  DOI Ungated Version VoxDev article

• Unbundling tenure security and demand for property rights: Evidence from urban Tanzania

  M. Manara, T. Regan — 2024
  Urban Studies
  DOI

• No Inventor Is an Island: Social Connectedness and the Geography of Knowledge Flows in the US

  A. Diemer, T. Regan — 2022
  Research Policy
  DOI Ungated Version

• Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

  G. Michaels, D. Nigmatulina, F. Rauch, N. Baruah, A. Dahlstrand, T. Regan — 2021
  Journal of Political Economy
  DOI Ungated Version

• Building the city: from slums to a modern metropolis

  J.V. Henderson, T. Regan, A. Venables — 2021
  Review of Economic Studies
  DOI Ungated Version Appendix

• Life in a Slum: understanding living conditions in Nairobi's slums across time and space

  J. Bird, P. Montebruno, T. Regan — 2017
  Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  DOI Ungated Version

• Building functional cities

  J.V. Henderson, A. Venables, I. Samsonov, T. Regan — May 2016
  Science
  DOI Ungated Version