Papers by Samuel Bazzi

Samuel Bazzi

Associate Professor · UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy

Associate Professor at the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, previously at Boston University. Works on development economics, political economy, migration and economic history.

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Published Review of Economic Studies Online 26 Sep 2025 Published May 2026

Religion, Education, and the State

Samuel Bazzi · Masyhur Hilmy · Benjamin Marx

This paper studies how Indonesia's Islamic education sector responded to one of the largest state-driven mass schooling expansions in history — the SD INPRES program (Sekolah Dasar Presidential …

Public Finance Economic Growth Inequality Free Read ↗

Online First Review of Economic Studies Online 13 Apr 2026

The Confederate Diaspora

Samuel Bazzi · Andreas Ferrara · Martin Fiszbein · Thomas Pearson · Patrick A Testa

This paper investigates how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused Confederate culture and entrenched racial norms across the United States during a critical juncture of westward …

Inequality Labor Markets Housing Free Read ↗