I am a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I have training both as an economist and as a political scientist. My research interests are in the political economy of development, with a focus on how political institutions and politicians shape economic development. Most of my recent work uses large N micro data and quasi-experimental designs to study the causes and consequences of electoral reforms, election outcomes, and politician characteristics. I have a paper on how political inclusion can lead to violence (using a regression discontinuity design), on how list type affects political selection and electoral performance, and the role candidates' business background plays in fiscal decisions while in office. My most recent research is on how private campaign financing creates conflicts of interest for elected politicians.
Currently I am a TA at LSE for intermediate quantitative analysis and next term will be TA for causal inference for observational studies. Previously I was a visiting fellow at Harvard-IQSS, and a visiting scholar at NYU-Politics department. Prior to being a PhD student at LSE, I worked at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. I earned an undergraduate in Economics, an undergraduate in Political Science, a Masters in Economics at Universidad de los Andes Colombia, as well as a Masters (with Distinction) at the LSE in Political Economy of L. Development.
Supervisors
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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet
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Dr Sandra Sequeira
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Dr Dominik Hangartner
Research Interests
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Political Economy of Development
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Quasi-experimental designs in political science
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Large-N Comparative Politics
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Designs of Political Institutions and Electoral Systems
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