Alma Bezares Calderón, Simon Mercer, Ifeoluwa M. Olawole, and Matthew K. Ribar. 2026. "Belonging, violence, and natural resource governance: experimental evidence from Mali and Niger." (forthcoming)

Matthew K. Ribar. 2025. "Land, Power, and Property Rights: The Political Economy of Land Titling in sub-Saharan Africa." American Political Science Review 120(2):399-418 [replication files].

African Politics Conference Group's 2025 'Best Graduate Student Paper' award.

Rebecca Janssen and Matthew K. Ribar. 2025. "Expertise, accuracy, and reputation inflation in the wine market: Evidence from Vivino ratings." Journal of Wine Economics 20(4): 348-370.

Matthew K. Ribar. 2025. "Feeding conflict? New data on the impact of humanitarian food aid on civil conflict." Journal of Global Security Studies 10(2) [replication files].

Matthew K. Ribar. 2017. "Keeping Up with the Times: How the Discipline of International Relations Responds to Benchmark Events." International Studies Perspectives 18(3): 304-322.

Published as a SAGE Research Methods Case Study [link].

Getting to Youths: Development Programming, Conflict Resolution, and Political Violence in Niger (with Kathryn M. Lance, Ryan Sheely, and Ifeoluwa M. Olawole) [paper].

Invited to revise and resubmit at the American Journal of Political Science.

Intra-respondent reliability and enumerator quality in field conjoint experiments [paper] Under review.

Invited to revise and resubmit at Political Science Research & Methods.

Trust and Betrayal in Wartime: How Ukrainians Evaluate Foreign Support During the Russian Invasion (with Margit Tavits and Carly Wayne). Under review. Available upon request.

When War Hits Home: Conflict Exposure and Domestic Violence in Ukraine (with Margit Tavits and Carly Wayne). Under review. Available upon request.

Land, power, and property rights: Conjoint evidence from Sénégal and Côte d'Ivoire [paper].

Previously published as STEG working paper no. 72 [link].

Radio Messaging and Community Acceptance of Ex-Combatants: experimental evidence from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (with Ifeoluwa M. Olawole) [paper].

Indirect Rule and the Endurance of Traditional Governance in Africa, prepared for The Oxford Handbook on Traditional Law & Governance in Africa (with Joan Ricart-Huguet) [link to draft].

Attention land predators! Power and Property in Rural West Africa (book manuscript in progress).

Who settle your land palavas? Property rights, conflict resolution, and institutional change in rural Liberia [pre-analysis plan].

Social cohesion and exposure to violent conflict: Evidence from a panel survey in Ukraine (with Margit Tavits and Carly Wayne).

Trust Issues: How Citizens Evaluate State Interventions During Armed Conflict (with Ifeoluwa M. Olawole) [pre-analysis plan].

Customary institutions and social cohesion after war (with Margit Tavits) [pre-analysis plan].

Gendered Backlash to Land Tenure Reform in Rural Liberia [pre-analysis plan].

Land Registration in Côte d'Ivoire: Consolidation of a national, land-owning elite (with Catherine Boone).

Inventing custom? Evidence from court records in colonial Senegal (with Joan Ricart-Huguet and Lindsey Pruett).

Escaping the Lean Season Trap: Emergency Food Assistance and Household Resilience in the Sahel (with Horace Gninafon, Jordan Kyle, and Philip Roessler) [pre-analysis plan].