Causal Inference • Experiments • Conflict & Behavior

I study how exposure to violence causally affects behavior, decision-making, and political attitudes, and how these effects vary across individuals and contexts. I focus on:

• Why some civil conflicts recur while others do not
• How communities rebuild trust after violence
• Barriers to durable peace
• Ethical and effective research in conflict settings

Methods

To study these questions, I use:

• Causal inference frameworks for estimating effects from experimental and observational data
• Randomized experiments (multi-country field and survey experiments)
• Quasi-experimental designs (e.g., unexpected events during survey fieldwork)
• Observational analysis (regression, MRP)
• Geospatial, event, administrative, and survey data
• Qualitative fieldwork (interviews, focus groups) to inform design and interpretation
• Machine learning (e.g., regularization) for feature selection and robustness checks

Affiliations

Research Fellow at the UCLA Preventing Violence Lab

Graduate Student Member of the Politics of Order and Development Lab

Student Affiliate at the California Center for Population Research